Template talk:Lists of aircraft

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If anyone wanted to find which aircraft were produced by a particular manufacturer would they really look at this template on the off-chance that the manufacturer they're interested in is listed here ? - surely they'd look at either the article for the manufacturer or the appropriate category. Similarly what's so special about the Connie, Sweden and Imperial Airways that they get a mention here. This template doesn't show all lists of aircraft (e.g. the "List of ... variants" articles). The articles linked are a mix of list articles and non-list articles. Lots of lists that appear against "Civil aircraft" are mil+civ. There are even links that are piped to something different to what it says in the template (e.g. the last link is not to an article about a specific conflict). In short it's a mess. I propose that the vast majority of this template (apart from the "By name" section which may have a purpose) be removed. DexDor (talk) 19:52, 31 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2011-07-31T19:52:00.000Z","author":"DexDor","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-DexDor-2011-07-31T19:52:00.000Z-What's_the_point_of_this_template_?","replies":["c-DexDor-2011-08-03T20:07:00.000Z-DexDor-2011-07-31T19:52:00.000Z"]}}-->

I've started removing less useful bits of the template. DexDor (talk) 20:07, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2011-08-03T20:07:00.000Z","author":"DexDor","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-DexDor-2011-08-03T20:07:00.000Z-DexDor-2011-07-31T19:52:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

Is it possible that the military aircraft are sorted by type as the civil aircraft. Mike117711 (talk) 20:25, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2011-11-24T20:25:00.000Z","author":"Mike117711","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Mike117711-2011-11-24T20:25:00.000Z-Specifying_The_Military_Planes","replies":[]}}-->

Wondering why these are in there when the company has a page that can be linked to?NiD.29 (talk) 20:49, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2015-07-17T20:49:00.000Z","author":"NiD.29","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-NiD.29-2015-07-17T20:49:00.000Z-Template_linking_to_templates","replies":[]}}-->