Talk:Southern Airways Flight 932

message: I suggest that a Wikipedian travel to Huntington, West Virginia, and photograph the Marshall plane crash site.  I would like to see what the plane crash site looks like today.  The photograph would be released to the public domain and inserted into the Wikipedia article. Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando 20:56, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photography to be done 

message: Is it okay if the article would have a list of the victims of the Marshall plane crash?  Decimus Tedius Regio Zanarukando 21:30, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that would be a little overboard for the article, and definitely not encyclopedic...  Several websites, including a couple listed in the article, include passenger lists, and I think it should stay that way.  Good idea, however.  Check-Six 22:50, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I agree. An external link would be better. A list of victims would overwhelm the article. If a victim list is inappropriate for September 11, 2001 attacks, it's not appropriate for here. B.Wind 05:49, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of plane crash victims 

message: In the first paragraph of the article it says there were 37 players and 8 coaches and then in another part of the article with a little box around it, it says there are 36 players and 9 coaches.
Lbm5007 (talk) 22:41, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many players/coaches 

message: The title of this being "Southern Airways Flight 932" is misleading in that the title alone conveys that this was a commercial flight and not a chartered one. This flight was not like other plane crashes in which the airline and flight number are the only comprehensive description of the tragedy. Every single person on this plane except for the crew was a part of Marshall University's football program as coach, player, announcer, or booster. The flight was chartered by Marshall University. This subject, having been in several documentaries and even a Warner Brothers film, is not known to anyone as the Southern Airways Flight 932.  
More importantly, a similar incident happened to Wichita State's football team a month earlier. That team also chartered flights--in this case, two--and one of them crashed. The Wikipedia page for that incident is titled "Wichita State University football team plane crash" acknowledging the school, team and tragedy.  So, given the similarity between Marshall's plane crash and Wichita State's, and the dissimilarity with other flights, the page title needs to be "Marshall University football team plane crash."  Despite the fact that an engine search will lead a searcher to this page, the current title is inconsistent and disrespects Marshall's tragedy and loss with a generic flight name that does not convey the full breadth of the story nor is ever used recognizably as the comprehensive summary of the tragedy. 
And allow me to add this comment later. The tragedy is referred to as the Marshall University plane crash or air tragedy on other Wikipedia pages.  Like this one for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bertoia
Damarco4u (talk) 18:18, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: *You say no one would recognize Southern Airways Flight 932, but that's simply not correct. Wikipedia normally prefers the correct title (like Southern Airways Flight 932) be the article title, then more search-friendly ones (like Marshall University football team plane crash) be a redirect to it. In any case, it sounds like you're suggesting a change much bigger than just this one article, so I'd suggest talking with the WP:WikiProject Aviation/Aviation accident task force to see if they think there needs to be a guideline. Niteshift36 (talk) 19:47, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The name of this page is misleading and inconsistent with other similar pages