How to write a page

This article shows you how to write a page.

When a new page is created it must be added to All Crashes Sorted by Death Toll where all incidents and accidents covered by this wiki are organized according to the number of fatalities, and Plane Crash Calendar where they are organized according to the day and month in which they occured.

Page Title
The title of a standard page featuring a plane crash must be in the following format:

[Airline Name] Flight [flight number]

All words in the title must be capitalized.

Some plane crashes (like the 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision) don't follow the traditional title format. If you are ever unsure what a page title should be, use the title from the corresponding Wikipedia page.

Categories
All new pages must be added to the following categories:


 * 1) Date. Check to see what year the incident happened in. All categories associated with date are spaced out in intervals on ten years. (For example 1940s, 1950s, 2000s, 2010s etc.) Do not create any new categories. Add the page to the existing categories only.
 * 2) Article stub. Add the page to the "article stub" category if it needs expanding or is lacking information. Add the "Stub" template to the beginning of the page. If you don't know how to do this, don't worry about this. Staff members can add the template as long as the page is in the "article stub" category.
 * 3) Cause of incident or accident. Some pages can be added to a specific category according to the cause of the accident. Our current cause-of-accident categories are ATC error, bombing, collision, hijacking, in-flight fire, mechanical failure, pilot error, and unknown.
 * 4) Airline. Some pages can be added to categories featuring all crashes of a specific airline. A new airline category is only created if that airline has a large number of crashes featured on this wiki, so do not create any new airline categories. Add the page to existing airline categories only (if there are any).

Feel free to add articles to any other categories that they belong in!

Information
Add the following: [Flight Name/Number (in bold text)] is a flight scheduled from [origin] to [destination]. It [insert short summary of incident here])

You may also an infobox next to the information paragraph. Some incidents (like mid-air collisions) will require multiple infoboxes. For those incidents create a summary infobox using the "Accident Only" version, then create seperate infoboxes with details on each aircraft involved.

Pilots
Insert pilots and some details about them here. (e.g. flying hours, when they joined the airline)

Background
Write about the incident in detail here.

Trivia
Write trivia about the flight here.