Wikipedia:Notability (aircraft)

This is an essay on notability. It contains the advice and/or opinions of one or more WikiProjects on how notability may be interpreted within their area of interest.

This information is not a formal Wikipedia policy or guideline, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community.

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This page in a nutshell: Aircraft types will almost always be notable. Aircraft subtypes and variants may be notable. Aircraft types currently or once under development may be notable. Individual aircraft will very seldom be notable.

This page gives some rough guidelines intended to be used by Wikipedia editors to decide whether an aircraft is notable for the purposes of having a separate article on Wikipedia. While satisfying these notability guidelines generally indicates an aircraft warrants an article, failing to satisfy them is not a criterion for speedy deletion.

These guidelines may be considered a specialized version of Wikipedia:Notability, applied to aircraft, reflecting the following core Wikipedia policies:

Claims of notability must adhere to Wikipedia's policy on attribution; it is not enough to simply assert that an aircraft meets a criterion without substantiating that claim with reliable sources.

"Notability" as used herein is not a reflection of an aircraft's "worth". A particular aircraft may have been used for hundreds of life-saving rescues, been involved in a famous military action, or belonged to a particularly colourful local character, while still not being notable enough to ensure sufficient verifiable source material exists to create an article in an encyclopedia.