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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

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

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)[reply]