Talk:Pembrey Airport

RAF Pembrey

6 months ago, this message was put on Talk:RAF Pembrey -

I don't believe it is customary to have independent articles for each Usage of the same site? And oddly Pembrey Airport has way more military history than this military article!Yellowxander (talk) 15:27, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

My response is:

Agree - but before losing an article on a former RAF station, it should be proposed at category level? I'm not sure how to do that - perhaps someone can advise. I'll put a note on Talk:Pembrey Airport, too.

Any takers? Tony Holkham (talk) 22:33, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:RAF Pembrey#Merge to Pembrey Airport? Andy Dingley (talk) 08:47, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Pembrey West Wales International Airport is just one of several users of the airfield. To merge under the heading "Pembrey Airport" would seem to be misleading or even self serving. "RAF Pembrey" may or may not be the right title, Pembrey Airfield is one alternative. The history on "Pembrey Airport" could be transferred to "RAF Pembrey", if properly sourced. However the current amount of sourcing on "Pembrey Airport" suggests the information and plans might better be only on a commercial site outside Wiki. SovalValtos (talk) 03:26, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Having thought this through for a while, I'm now tending towards not merging Pembrey Airport and RAF Pembrey. My thoughts are -

• I agree with SovalValtos that any unsupported commercial info should be stripped from Pembrey Airport...
• But that Pembrey Airport should be left as an article with the basic facts in it, rather than not have an article at all, as it does have an ICAO code. There will probably be verifiable information to add at a later date if the airport does grow as planned...
• And that Pembrey Airport should have a minimal history section on the RAF aspect with a link to RAF Pembrey, with most of the RAF information added to RAF Pembrey. It's not the airport that has history, but the airfield...
• So there may be a case for changing Pembrey Airport to Pembrey Airfield, but I don't have any strong feelings on that one. If it did happen, then Pembrey Circuit should be linked to it.

Happy to bow out of this one now, and leave it to people who have more knowledge about these things than I do! Tony Holkham (talk) 11:38, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Update - Nothing's been done about moving history to RAF Pembrey for a few months so I'll have a go, but looking for citations first. Tony Holkham (talk) 11:58, 3 August 2014 (UTC)