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You may have a good reason for removing some content from articles about airports. However, it is difficult for reviewers to know why sourced content is being removed without a brief explanation in the edit summary. Wikipedia:Edit summaries. Please use them to avoid possibly unnecessary messages and a brief possible block on editing. I considered striking any messages that I may have left to see if you had a good faith reason for your edits. But if there were any, you have deleted them. So I cannot strike them.

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It should be immediately obvious why the text I removed needed to be removed. For example, in one of the articles, which you reverted, there was the text "The Balmaceda VOR-DME (Ident: BAL) is located 48.3 nautical miles (89 km) northwest of the airport". What is a "VOR-DME"? Whoever added this could not be bothered to explain it, nor even write out a complete word when giving its identifier. And whatever this thing is, is 50 miles away from the subject of the article. Please explain what value you thought there was in this text. 51.7.34.168 (talk) 22:04, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

I have a wikilink on VOR-DME for anyone who wonders what it is. "Very high frequency OmniRange - Distance Measuring Equipment" is what the acronym stands for. Too much typing for me, and I doubt many younger pilots know the full name. The identifier "BAL" is the name broadcast for that station, not an acronym. The availability of navigation aids to an airport is important, and their distance from the airport determines their value. If you don't understand something about an airport or aviation, that's quite all right, but please don't make that assumption of all wiki readers. Cptmrmcmillan (talk) 00:06, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. Would you kindly also add this comment or any additional information to Talk:Rio Turbio Airport where it seems appropriate to gain consensus on this type of information being included in airfield articles. Many thanks, Nick Moyes (talk) 01:23, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

I have a wikilink on VOR-DME for anyone who wonders what it is. - you have? The encyclopaedia has an article, which is completely unsourced. You don't appear to have contributed to it at all.

Too much typing for me - if you're that lazy, don't edit Wikipedia. Expecting other people to fix your laziness is simply disruptive.

and I doubt many younger pilots know the full name. - if pilots don't even know what the acronym means, what are the general readers who this encyclopaedia is for meant to make of it?

The identifier "BAL" is the name broadcast for that station, not an acronym. - yes, I know. Who said anything else? Perhaps you misunderstood when I said "Whoever added this could not be bothered to explain it, nor even write out a complete word when giving its identifier." "ident" is not a word. But in every article where you've spammed this detail in, that's what you've written. Again, you're putting in shoddy half-formed content and relying on other people to fix your sloppy work.

The availability of navigation aids to an airport is important - to whom?

and their distance from the airport determines their value. - their value to whom? 51.7.34.168 (talk) 08:39, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

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