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ICAO codes in Ukraine

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Preamble: I am aware this matter is heavily linked to politics, still I absolutely wish to stay out of the muddy waters of politics. I am only trying to get a correct encyclopedia.

As I understand things:

  • certain territories, formally part of Ukraine, are presently under control of Russia. The Crimea peninsula in particular;
  • Russia now controlling these areas, it treats them like being Russian, and accordingly assigns Russian ICAO-style codes to airports in the Crimea;
  • Some of these changes have been reflected on Wikipedia articles, for example the one on Simferopol International Airport where the ICAO code has been changed from UKFF to URFF, with a reference to the Russian AIP;
  • the authority of Russia over said territories, and their airports, is not universally acknowledged;
  • the Russian "ICAO" codes are not recognised by ICAO;
  • The Russian ICAO-style codes are not really ICAO codes, and should not be published as encyclopedical.

So what do we do now?

  • mention no ICAO codes at all?
  • mention the real ICAO codes, which are in reality not used by anyone?
  • mention the Russian pseudo-codes, which are in use though only by one authority, but are not recognised by ICAO?

Again, please let us NOT enter into politics! Jan olieslagers (talk) 09:10, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I would say we mention the "russian" codes (they exist so no need to pretend they dont) but just place a footnote saying these have been allocated by the Russian Federation and also mention the ICAO code as again it is still official. MilborneOne (talk) 11:35, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Having thought over my own question, I am afraid I do not agree. Yes the Russian pseudo-codes do exist, that does not make them encyclopedical. Just because someone says 2+2=5, that doesn't make us support this "fact" on WP, does it? There seems to be no really satisfactory answer, the least unsatisfactory I can think of is to not mention any ICAO code formally, and referring to both real ICAO and fake Russian codes in a footnote. Jan olieslagers (talk) 16:38, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]