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Aviation accident articles

For articles on aviation accidents, we recommend following the guidelines defined by Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Style guide/Layout (Accidents)

Advice for writing Soviet accident articles:

• If you can find an image of the exact aircraft with registration that crashed in Commons, you're in luck. Most likely you will have to use an image of the same aircraft type in the same livery for the time of the accident. Don't stress over the photo too much, there are plenty of photos of Soviet aircraft available.
• Newspapers rarely reported on air accidents that happened in the Soviet Union, so don't rely on newspapers. Try looking at airdisaster.ru, russianplanes.net, the aviation safety network's database, en.avia.pro, and the Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives.
• You will have to know at least some Russian or understand the abbreviations to read the accident reports from Airdisaster.ru. Copy+paste+googletranslate does not make an article, but don't be afraid to ask a native Russian speaker for help if you get stuck on one word. (but reading the reports is great practice for language students)
• Once your article is finished and published, don't forget to add the correct categories, and add interwiki links to the article in various other Wikipedia pages. Some pages that could link to the article include: List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft, Aeroflot accidents and incidents (or Aeroflot accidents and incidents by decade), List of accidents and incidents involving the (aircraft type), List of aircraft accidents and incidents resulting in at least 50 fatalities, and (if needed) the airport where the plane crashed.
• Given rampant design flaws in some aircraft, search around Wikipedia and see if there were any remarkably similar accidents, ex Tu-104 artificial horizon failures.

Soviet Aviator Biographies

• Follow guidelines for biographies as defined by Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biographies
• Try to include a picture of the person in question, even if there isn't a photo already on Commons. While most photos ov aviators from the Soviet Union are not eligible for Commons (see PD-Ukraine, Pd-Russia, PD-RU-exempt), fair-use photos of deceased people are permitted to be used in biographies.
• Use the Template:Infobox military person, Template:Infobox aviator, or Template:Infobox person
• Be sure to include their native name in the biography so that google searches are easier
• Exact date of birth may not be documented for some people, so the birth year may be all that is available. Be aware of Old Style and New Style dates.
• Include any major awards or titles the person was granted, ex, Hero of the Soviet Union, Order of the Red Banner, Order of the Red Star...etc. to help establish notability. More importantly, include any "firsts" (ex, first Ingush pilot, first Adygean woman aviator, first Soviet pilot to shot down a Bf-109, etc) or "onlys" (ex, only person to have committed four aerial rammings, only person to have committed two aerial rammings in one flight, only woman "Honored test pilot of the USSR", etc)

Airports

• Follow the guidelines established by Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Style guide/Layout (Airports)
• If the airport is in a location of which it's official status is currently disputed, (ex, Crimea, Nagorno-Karabakh), clearly note that the location is disputed territory to prevent lame editwars.

Aircraft

Follow guidelines defined by Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Style guide/Layout (Aircraft).

Notes

Translation skills will be a useful skill in this wikiproject; it is necessary to note in edit summaries and talkpages when an article is translated.