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General Mitchell International Airport

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Been thinking of putting this one up for GAC in a few weeks time, there is need for improvment in this articles ref section, such as adding the source and access date. I will get to that task soon, but I wish to know what other areas you think need cleanup or some copyediting.

Thanks, I would love to give a PR to someone else also. --Marcusmax (talk) 23:16, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

• Comments
  • Lead has stubby paragraphs, and doesn't really talk about the history of the airport itself.
  • Looking through the article, there's some big Manual of Style issues, such as improper bolding, stubby sections (that arent a full paragraph) and the like. So the article needs some expansion and revamping.
  • The second major issue is sourcing. Many sections have next to no sources, such as the carriers list and the incidents list. I suggest using Ben Gurion International Airport as a model and reformatting the layout like that FA, then work on expanding and citing content. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^(talk) 17:00, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice, i'll try to follow your suggestions as best as possible. -Marcusmax (talk) 21:24, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Getting those refs done -Marcusmax (talk) 19:17, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Ruhrfisch comments: I agree with David Fuchs' comments above, here are some suggestions for improvement. If you want more comments, please ask here.

• Language could use some tightening, for example the first sentence could lose "the city" General Mitchell International Airport (IATA: MKE, ICAO: KMKE, FAA LID: MKE) is a county-owned public airport located five miles (8 km) south of the central business district of Milwaukee, a city in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States.[3] Since it has a wikilink and only cities have Central Business Districts, the city seems superfluous
• Any chance for more images? The terminal exterior perhaps? I also note that per WP:MOS#Images, images should be set to thumb width to allow reader preferences to take over. For portrait format images, "upright" can be used to make the image narrower.
• Agree this needs more refs - My rule of thumb is that every quote, every statistic, every extraordinary claim and every paragraph needs a ref. Internet refs need URL, title, author if known, publisher and date accessed. {{cite web}} and other cite templates may be helpful. See WP:CITE and WP:V
• History seems a bit sparse, decades long gaps in several places.

Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 03:33, 28 September 2008 (UTC)