Talk:Passenger name record

Split page

I am beginning the process of splitting the page in to sections regarding the various international agreements, and segregating the intelligence industry use of PNR from general travel industry use, as per suggestion by User:Dmol. This will mean significant changes over the coming hour or two. prat (talk) 08:16, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

I have created a new category Category:Intelligence treaties to hold specific Passenger name record and the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program in to which the bulk of the content will be moved. prat (talk) 08:25, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

I suggested the split as the article is being overwhelmed by information about various international agreements regarding information sharing. (Years ago there was a similar issue with this article regarding codeshare.) So a separate article is the best compromise, and can be expanded without changing the tone of the PNR article. I'd also suggest take out any mention of intelligence in the lede and the disambiguation tag at the top. It can be mentioned later, and point to the new article.

As user prat is working on the article now, I'll leave it for a day or two to allow it to be completed before making any more adjustments.--Dmol (talk) 08:31, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Moved US-centric stuff to the unwieldy Agreement between the United States of America and the European Union on the use and transfer of Passenger Name Records to the United States Department of Homeland Security and double-categorized. Have to pause for dinner now, but will be back to perform the AU/CA equivalents shortly. prat (talk) 08:49, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Passenger Name Record

The last postings have swamped the article with large amounts of POV text about privacy concerns. --Dmol 06:58, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. prat (talk) 08:16, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

privacy issues,

made a separate heading to cover the privacy issues, but still needs work.--Dmol 09:51, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm a bit confused about the content of the article... it doesn't explain what a PNR really is and only focuses on privacy issues, the content of a PNR being explained in the record locator article, whereas a record locator is only a 6 digits string that identifies a PNR. Some cleanup seems to be required. Metoule 12:27, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Latest revision

I have reverted all of Texaswebscout. Information was inaccurate. PNRs can and often do contain date of birth, as it is a requirement for this information to be provided in order to enter the USA. The info can come from the machine readable data in a passport, but is often contained in the PNR. This is especially the case where frequent travellers have a 'profile' built in the airline system, to avoid having to add it each time a booking is make.
Quotes have been put back to what they were. All spellings have been put back to originals. Not everyone spells these words in the American way, and they are totally acceptable as they are.--Dmol 22:15, 4 April 2007 (UTC) no problem for anything —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.211.49.210 (talk) 15:09, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 03:18, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

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Passenger Name Record → Passenger name record –

Per WP:CAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization") and WP:TITLE, this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. In addition, WP:MOS says that a compound item should not be upper-cased just because it is abbreviated with caps. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles. Tony (talk) 08:37, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose. It's normally abbreviated to PNR so I think it should stay in caps. (But I won't lose sleep over it).--Dmol (talk) 08:55, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi Dmol. WP's styleguides say abbreviating an item (with caps, almost always) is not a reason to cap the expanded form. Other style guides support this, even if there's widespread overuse of caps in in-house situations. I'm presuming this example is generic, yes? It's not a unique, proprietary name, but something that's used by every airline as a procedural tool, like passenger list, and customs approval. Tony (talk) 09:41, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

PNR Structure

I added a link to the official IATA document that details the structure of the PNR. This was done to address the lack of citation in the "Parts" section and potentially remove the template. ToddW-US (talk) 00:56, 12 June 2017 (UTC)