Talk:Air Wing of the Armed Forces of Malta

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Content move from Armed Forces of Malta

Hello all. I've found this article today pretty much by accident, while using the search function to find the Armed Forces of Malta article. Since this one felt short and unfinished and the main article about the AFM was getting a bit too long, I decided to move the detailed information on the Air Wing from the main AFM article to this one. I hope no one minds. I've tried to source this article as best as I could and I've preserved most of the original text and structure from both the older version of this article and the material copied from the Air Wing section in the main AFM article. If anyone has any ideas or criticisms, feel free to voice them. --ZemplinTemplar (talk) 19:34, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Table format

WP:AVILIST gives the default format for lists of aircraft in table format, such as the list in this article. AVILIST allows a given article to differ, if it is agreed by consensus. I see no need here to differ, however an anonymous IP editor has been warring over the list format here and consequently the article has been semi-protected for a second time. I have opened this discussion to give our IP editor an opportunity to put their case here. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 09:09, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As an outsider to this process I must say steel pillow the chart that you have constructed is a bit of a mess. It was much easier to read than what is there now, granted the images r intrusive but atleast then simplified sections were cleaner, than this sortable stuff. Thanks IP — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.47.16.221 (talk) 02:27, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Whether it is simple and whether it is sortable are different issues. Sortability is useful, for example one can list the aircraft by manufacturer, country of origin, date, etc. and there is now a clear distinction between the class of design and its operational role. There is a temptation to add more and more columns of data that readers are interested in. Which columns should we leave out and how do you answer people who want to keep each particular one in? Would you go back to having the variant as a separate column from the type? That was another mess that the present format clears up, along with the images. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 11:33, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]