Talk:Pilot licences

message: When recasting this group of articles I intended to write an introduction that was fairly culture neutral, but I got behind the airplane (as I did in my lesson today, ouch). I propose the following restructuring. It's partly driven by the almost trivial desire to smooth over the license/licence ugliness, but also because it's a chance to do what I think is the right thing. I'll leave this here for comments. What I propose is a fairly simple cut-and-paste, but it may leave the door open for too much fragmentation. Comments welcome.
===New articles===
; Pilot licencing and certification : A general introduction to the topic, avoiding anything that is country-specific. Introduces that each country recognizes, at least, Private, Commercial, ATP, and Instrument certifications, for specific categories of aircraft. A general idea about what each level lets you do. Add a note that even the FAA is ambiguous about the term license or certificate.
; Pilot certification in the US: The "training" and "certification" sections of the current Pilot Licences article. Points to some of the below.
; Pilot licencing in Canada : The "training" and "certification" sections of the current Pilot Licences article. I'll leave it to others whether to break out articles like "Private Pilot Licence in Canada"
; Pilot licencing in the United Kingdom : A stub. I'll leave it to others whether to break out articles like Private Pilot Licence in the UK
; Sport Pilot Certificate : Unchanged, except to explain it is currently US only
; Private Pilot Certificate in the US: New name for the existing Private Pilot Licence, with minor edits.
; Commercial Pilot Certificate in the US : New name for the existing Commercial Pilot Licence, with minor edits. 
; Instrument rating in the US : New name for the existing Instrument rating
===Potential other articles===
This could lead to a plethora of other articles: Private/Commercial/ATP/IMC ratings in UK/Canada/Australia/New Zealand. Does this multiply out too much?
===Redirects===
* Pilot Licences and Pilot Licenses redirect to Pilot licencing and certification
* Commercial Pilot Licence will be a stub pointing to the country-specific articles, and Commercial Pilot License and Commercial Pilot Certificate will redirect to it
* Private Pilot Licence will be a stub pointing to the country-specific articles, and Private Pilot License, PPL and Private Pilot Certificate will redirect to it
David Brooks 04:53, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Reorganization proposal

message: * Pilot Licences and Pilot Licenses redirect to Pilot licencing and certification
* Commercial Pilot Licence will be a stub pointing to the country-specific articles, and Commercial Pilot License and Commercial Pilot Certificate will redirect to it
* Private Pilot Licence will be a stub pointing to the country-specific articles, and Private Pilot License, PPL and Private Pilot Certificate will redirect to it
David Brooks 04:53, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirects

message: On re-reading this, I realized the error I had made on this talk page, but not in the articles themselves. The verb form is licensing in both US and Commonwealth English David Brooks 17:02, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Verb form