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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Okay, with the lack of sources it currently fails both WP:V and WP:GNG. Ping me for undelete if enough RS are located that would verify its existence. ♠PMC(talk) 00:03, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The article has been recently nominated for deletion on Polish Wikipedia as a possible hoax. Sources present here and on other interwikis are very poor and seem to be to some websites of dubious reliability which might have copied information from Wikipedia. Linked Google Map coordinates show what looks like normal farmland. Code LQGL does not seem to exist in this ICAO database (it's the one linked from ICAO airport code, if there is a more reliable one I couldn't find it - please add it to said page). The consulted database lists six others airports in Bosnia Hercegovina but nothing in Glamoc. Then there is an issue whether this entity would pass WP:GNG if it was real - but first, we have to seriously consider that this is a hoax (unintentional perhaps, a repetition of some error due to the creator's assumption that this website - the only cited source - is reliable - but it is just someone's personal homepage...). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:33, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:33, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bosnia and Herzegovina-related deletion discussions. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:33, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The book sources I linked typically talk of military usage, and/or during wartime, and one snippet there explicitly mentions an 'improvised' airfield, so we're unlikely to see a clear pattern of e.g. paved runways on the sattelite images (even if there was a war there since 1984). It's probably just the flattest part of the polje of Glamoč that is empty enough for planes to land. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 16:56, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Piotrus, the snippets I read mostly seemed to mention World War II, then the Yugoslav People's Army, and one was something NATO-related in the Bosnian War. I mean, click the GB link above, it wasn't actually non-English... --Joy [shallot] (talk) 00:48, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.