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When a new article on an accident is created, please follow this checklist:

• 1. Locate the airline website. Link to the condolence/press release info in the external links. Archive all pages and important images at http://webcitation.org - Make sure all information in all languages is archived.
• 2. Locate the manufacturer website (Boeing, Airbus, Embraer, Bombardier, Tupolev, Sukhoi, etc.) - Link to the press releases in the EL page. Archive all pages and important images at http://webcitation.org - Make sure all information in all languages is archived.
• 3. Locate the information at the accident investigation authority page. Archive all pages and important images at http://webcitation.org and continue doing so up to and including the final report. Make sure all information in all languages is archived.
• 4. Locate the information at the page of the accident investigation authority of the country of manufacture (i.e. the French BEA for Airbus accidents) if it is not already the accident investigation authority of the accident itself. Archive all pages and important images at http://webcitation.org - Make sure all information in all languages is archived.
• 5. Information from search and rescue agencies, emergency management agencies, and/or military agencies involved in search and rescue needs to be archived too. - Make sure all information in all languages is archived.
• 6. Make sure relevant information is linked to in the English Wikipedia and Wikipedias of the relevant local languages. I.E. if an accident takes place in Spain, involves a Japanese airline, and involves an Airbus aircraft, link to all documentation in the English, Spanish (language of country of accident), Japanese (language of country of airline), and French (language of country of manufacture) Wikipedias. If significant numbers of passengers come from another country (i.e. the Flash Airlines accident involved mainly French nationals), link to stuff in the Wikipedia of the language of the country of the passengers too (i.e. French in the Flash Airlines case)
  • Even though Airbus is a pan-European company, the French BEA publishes releases and info related to crashes of Airbus aircraft. Sometimes the German BFU has info too, posted on the BEA website, related to Airbus accidents.
  • Some U.S. airlines have press releases in Spanish related to an accident, even if it takes place on U.S. territory or the territory of an English-speaking country. I.E. American Airlines had Spanish language press releases related to an AA accident in Jamaica. In that case, link to stuff on the Spanish Wikipedia too.
  • If an article does not yet exist in the relevant languages, go on the Wikipedias of those languages and ask that someone write an article about the accident.
  • For webcitation.org, sometimes a page may be too big to archive. If this is the case, archive it at the Internet Archive by querying for the document (if the URL is http://bla.bla/yaddayadda, type in http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://bla.bla/yaddayadda), and the page will be archived.