Talk:List of aircraft by date and usage category

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On Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft I have started a proposal for how lists of aircraft could be rationalised on wikipedia. If you're interested, let's discuss it there -- Cabalamat 03:07, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I am increasingly of the belief that this list is even less scalable than List of aircraft as the numbers of aircraft articles increase, and it is not being kept up to date. Should we abandon this article? —Morven 06:20, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

As its creator, I'm reluctant to agree with you, but you certainly have a point. The idea was that whenever an aircraft was added to the monolithic list, this table was updated also. People don't seem to be bothering, yet finding aircraft when you aren't sure of its exact name on WP is still problematic. I guess part of the problem is the very unweildy format for editing tables - until that's fixed there isn't much incentive to figure out where an entry goes and add it. It's a pity somebody can't come up with a WYSIWYG table editor for WP - a Java applet perhaps. However, this may not be the true cause of the problem, so I think we should discuss it some more before eliminating the page altogether. Graham 01:23, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Frankly, I don't see much use for it either. I suspect that's part of the reason it isn't being kept up; the other part is that it is unclear where to enter aircraft. By first flight? By IOC? (... and what if it didn't enter service?) By the first decade it was used or in every one? (Cf. aircraft like the DC-3 and An-2.) By the decade(s) in which it was in production? Askari Mark | Talk 16:22, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]