Talk:Turkish Airlines fleet

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Review: October 12, 2022. (Reviewed version).

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Section sizes

Section size for Turkish Airlines fleet (22 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	4,157	4,157
Fleet development	24	52,793
Early years and post-war period	3,876	3,876
Start of the jet age	2,352	2,352
Wide-body operations and all-jet fleet	2,596	2,596
1980s	3,576	3,576
1990s	4,915	4,915
2000s	9,236	9,236
2010s	13,657	13,657
2020s	12,561	12,561
Current fleet	12,010	12,010
Historical fleet	8,023	8,023
Naming	2,901	7,906
Symbolic names	5,005	5,005
Livery	9,525	17,883
Special liveries	8,358	8,358
Notes	26	26
References	17	11,884
Citations	33	33
Bibliography	9,509	9,509
Skylife magazines	2,325	2,325
External links	204	204
Total	114,886	114,886

A fact from Turkish Airlines fleet appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 July 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that when expanding the airline's fleet in 1989, the directors of Turkish Airlines did not fulfil the request of Turkey's president to buy the Boeing 747, and ordered the Airbus A340 (example pictured) instead?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 08:14, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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A Turkish Airlines Airbus A340

... that when expanding the airline's fleet in 1989, the directors of Turkish Airlines didn't fulfill the request of Turkey's president Turgut Özal to buy the Boeing 747 and ordered the Airbus A340 (pictured) instead?

Source: Kozlu, 2007, p. 94–104: "Bu ve benzeri hatlar için [Turgut] Özal'ın gönlünde Boeing 747'nin yattığı biliniyordu. [...] Halbuki, yaptığım her inceleme Boeing 747 alımının vahim bir hata olacağı, THY'nin üzerine taşıyamayacağı bir yük bindireceği sonucuna gelip dayanıyordu. [...] Airbus A340, teknik özellikleri, uçuş performansı, teslim tarihleri ve maaliyet avantajı nedeiyle oybirliğiyle MD-11'e tercih edilmişti."
Translation: "It was known that Boeing 747 was in the heart of [Turgut] Özal for this and similar routes. [...] However, every review I made came to the conclusion that the Boeing 747 purchase would be a grave mistake and would put a burden on THY that it could not carry. [...] The Airbus A340 was unanimously preferred over the MD-11 due to its technical features, flight performance, delivery dates and cost advantage."

- Reviewed: To Be Loved (Adele song)
- Comment: Moved from draftspace. See #Start of the jet age for context of the hook. Imagine doing this today, while this guy is in charge...

Created by Styyx (talk). Self-nominated at 19:47, 14 July 2022 (UTC).[reply]

New enough in mainspace (moved July 14) and long enough. Hook fact checks out (AGF on offline Turkish-language source using translation provided) and is quite interesting. The image is suitable for Main Page use. No textual issues. Everything is either cited or introduces a heavily cited table. Light copyediting of hook. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 03:49, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Sammi Brie and Styyx: The current hook is above 200 characters. Maybe we can shorten it up a bit?

ALT0a ... that when expanding the airline's fleet in 1989, the directors of Turkish Airlines didn't fulfill the request of Turkey's president to buy the Boeing 747 and ordered the Airbus A340 (pictured) instead?

Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:10, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's good. ~Styyx^Talk? 00:16, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This has my stamp of approval too. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 00:18, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

Passed. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:00, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:Turkish Airlines fleet/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs) 20:55, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I am planning on reviewing this article for GA Status, over the next couple of days. Thank you for nominating the article for GA status. I hope I will learn some new information, and that my feedback is helpful.

If nominators or editors could refrain from updating the particular section that I am updating until it is complete, I would appreciate it to remove a edit conflict. Please address concerns in the section that has been completed above (If I've raised concerns up to references, feel free to comment on things like the lede.)

I generally provide an overview of things I read through the article on a first glance. Then do a thorough sweep of the article after the feedback is addressed. After this, I will present the pass/failure. I may use strikethrough tags when concerns are met. Even if something is obvious why my concern is met, please leave a message as courtesy.

Best of luck! you can also use the {{done}} tag to state when something is addressed. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)}

Please let me know after the review is done, if you were happy with the review! Obviously this is regarding the article's quality, however, I want to be happy and civil to all, so let me know if I have done a good job, regardless of the article's outcome.

Links[edit]

Prose[edit]

Lede[edit]

bought over 30 cheap Douglas DC-3 and Douglas C-47s from the United States of America - presumably from the Government? Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:35, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's actually, not really specified in the four sources I checked (Albayrak 1983, Ayas 1990, Yurtoğlu 2016, Şekerli 2021). Only "planes from the US that were used in WWII". So yes, presumably Government (Air Force), but it's weird that none of the sources say that. I did add "used in the Second World War" to the lead.

I quite like the prose in the lede, but does seem a little bit more like a history section than a lede. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:35, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'll work on it to add a paragraph about the naming and livery as well.

Added.

General[edit]

I feel like the fleet development should be the first section. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:40, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done.

Tables need rowscopes. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:40, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I need a bit of help with MOS:DTAB. I figured colscope out, but rowscope is another story. I had it at some point, but was told it was wrong so I removed it.

I'm not the biggest fan of images that have a caption of what is in the image - there's no commentary at all. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:40, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I changed some captions. If you have an issue with a specific one let me know. Alt text coming later.

Review meta comments[edit]

I'll begin the review as soon as I can! If you fancy returning the favour, I have a list of nominations for review at WP:GAN and WP:FAC, respectively. I'd be very grateful if you were to complete one of these if you get time. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:55, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Lee Vilenski Round 1 done. ~Styyx^Talk? 15:05, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Short description[edit]

I have changed the short description as it was inaccurate. Please check and improve if necessary. · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 05:54, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Related discussion[edit]

See here. Thanks. ~Styyx^Talk? 21:41, 25 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of aircraft previously operated by AnadoluJet[edit]

AnadoluJet, now known as AJet, has begun flights under its own trademark and AOC, thus Turkish Airlines no longer operates their aircraft. I have tried to remove these respective aircraft manually myself, but I can't seem to prevent it from breaking the page. If necessary and possible, please help remove the AJet fleet from this page. Lifetimelucid (talk) 21:14, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]