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Group training stations

A now departed, banned user, Bwmoll3, set up a category, Category:USAAF Second Air Force Group Training Stations with a reference. The reference was R. Frank Futrell, “The Development of Base Facilities,” in The Army Air Forces in World War II, vol. 6, Men and Planes, ed. Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, 142 (Washington, D.C., Office of Air Force History, new imprint, 1983). The pages were Ainsworth Regional Airport, Bruning Army Air Field, Moses Lake Army Air Base, Scribner State Airport, Strother Army Airfield, and Walla Walla Army Airfield. Buckshot06 (talk) 22:29, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I do not believe that whether these bases were Second Air Force group training installations is a defining characteristic of their existence, in line with WP:CATDEF. Lineagegeek, your thoughts? Buckshot06 (talk) 22:31, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It sounds more like a subject for a list to me than a category. Just trying out brackets: Category:First Air Force Group Training Stations, Category:Third Air Force Group Training Stations. Category:Fourth Air Force Group Training Stations, Category:I Troop Carrier Command Group Training Stations would be direct equivalents in mission and time, but don't exist. Of the few bases put in this category two are listed under names they never had (common problem Nowadays the US Army has Army Airfields: during WW II it had Army Air Fields), and two more are listed under more recent civilian names (which in itself tells me that support for a "defining characteristic" is weak). The use of the term "group training station" also implies some sort of defining characteristic between group training stations and squadron or wing training stations (which I doubt exists). I see no reason for the category. If this were to appear on a delete category page, I'd support (although I don't now where that page is). --Lineagegeek (talk) 23:31, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Now listed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 February 20. Buckshot06 (talk) 00:47, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]