Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Glamoč Airport

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The result was delete. Okay, with the lack of sources it currently fails both WP:V and WP:GNG. Ping me for undelete if enough RS are located that would verify its existence. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:03, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Glamoč Airport

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The article has been recently nominated for deletion on Polish Wikipedia as a possible hoax. Sources present here and on other interwikis are very poor and seem to be to some websites of dubious reliability which might have copied information from Wikipedia. Linked Google Map coordinates show what looks like normal farmland. Code LQGL does not seem to exist in this ICAO database (it's the one linked from ICAO airport code, if there is a more reliable one I couldn't find it - please add it to said page). The consulted database lists six others airports in Bosnia Hercegovina but nothing in Glamoc. Then there is an issue whether this entity would pass WP:GNG if it was real - but first, we have to seriously consider that this is a hoax (unintentional perhaps, a repetition of some error due to the creator's assumption that this website - the only cited source - is reliable - but it is just someone's personal homepage...). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:33, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:33, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bosnia and Herzegovina-related deletion discussions. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:33, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as a likely hoax, though I would be interested in seeing how the matter on other wikis resolves in case any better information turns up. Vaticidalprophet (talk) 07:21, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Vaticidalprophet, Indeed, but I don't speak the other languages to cross-report problems... Polish deletion discussion which made me aware of the problem is here: pl:Wikipedia:Poczekalnia/artykuły/2021:02:06:Port lotniczy Glamoč _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:10, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I don't know that this was an intentional hoax on Wikipedia but I don't think it's a real airport, from the evidence presented. - tucoxn\^talk 17:44, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
A quick google for the ICAO code gave me https://www.icao.int/wacaf/documents/apirg/sg/2012/afi_opmet_mtf4/docs/wp10_atta.pdf which seems to include only 4 airports in .ba total, which seems a bit suspect, though. I looked up e.g. Lučko Airport there and couldn't find it, either, yet that's definitely a real place. This Glamoč location could be an airfield that isn't an actual airport with proper facilities, but has historically been used for plane transport. https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=Glamo%C4%8D+airfield indicates that this should indeed be the case. Maybe simply rename it to Glamoč airfield? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 18:01, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Leaning ~~delete~~. The coordinates in the article show a random stretch of rural highway with no airport or even an airstrip in the vicinity.[1]. Oakshade (talk) 04:05, 9 February 2021 (UTC)Based on below comments, I just don't know. It seems plausible there was an airport at this location, but not certain. changed to neutral. Oakshade (talk) 04:49, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This Google Earth time lapse doesn't show (or have enough detail to show) the discolored area that could be an old airstrip. It's hard to be convinced if this is a real airstrip or not. - tucoxn\^talk 12:24, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The book sources I linked typically talk of military usage, and/or during wartime, and one snippet there explicitly mentions an 'improvised' airfield, so we're unlikely to see a clear pattern of e.g. paved runways on the sattelite images (even if there was a war there since 1984). It's probably just the flattest part of the polje of Glamoč that is empty enough for planes to land. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 16:56, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Joy, Do we have any idea which war it was used in (if any), and by which military(ies)? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 00:45, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Piotrus, the snippets I read mostly seemed to mention World War II, then the Yugoslav People's Army, and one was something NATO-related in the Bosnian War. I mean, click the GB link above, it wasn't actually non-English... --Joy [shallot] (talk) 00:48, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Would be notable if it were real. Alas, it's not. Smartyllama (talk) 19:54, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. As written, this violates WP:V. If evidence of existence can be found, I'll reconsider my !vote. --Kinu ^t/_c 02:40, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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