JF-17 Wikipedia article

[hj786]

Anybody want to help improve it?

JF-17 Thunder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think the general layout is OK for now, but we can add lots more information to the development and design sections. Could also use some good pictures.

I want to make it more like the F-16 article:
F-16 Fighting Falcon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lots of information and pictures in a well-organised layout. But I think there should be larger pictures on the right side of the article as well, to stop it looking like a big wall of text.

I need help with what to add to the text and pictures (they must be fair-use images - see Wikipedia:Image use policy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Also need help with submitting the request to get these images cleared for use in articles:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload

At the moment there is only one picture of JF - the 2007 flypast I think:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:JF-17_Thunder

 

[hj786]

If anybody could send me some clean, good quality high res pictures that do not have any watermark on them, I want to try uploading and showing them on the article. A good cockpit pic would be great. Also could use pictures of original super-7/FC-1 and then pics of new version to highlight improvements. Pictures of new version with weapons would also be good.

 

[hj786]

er ok, obviously this isn't going over well...

Anyway. These are the "related" and "comparable" aircraft lists on the article:

Related development
* Chengdu J-7
* Chengdu J-10

Comparable aircraft
* AIDC FCK-1 Ching-kuo
* Dassault Mirage 2000
* JAS-39 Gripen
* F-16 Fighting Falcon
* Northrop YF-17
* F/A-18 Hornet
* F-20 Tigershark
* Mitsubishi F-2

What do you peeps think? Should I add anything else?

 

[ahmeddsid]

er ok, obviously this isn't going over well...

Anyway. These are the "related" and "comparable" aircraft lists on the article:

Related development
* Chengdu J-7
* Chengdu J-10

Comparable aircraft
* AIDC FCK-1 Ching-kuo
* Dassault Mirage 2000
* JAS-39 Gripen
* F-16 Fighting Falcon
* Northrop YF-17
* F/A-18 Hornet
* F-20 Tigershark
* Mitsubishi F-2

What do you peeps think? Should I add anything else?

Look F18 is in no way comparable to the JF 17 in its current form!!!!!!!

 

[hj786]

In it's early versions it kind of was. Read the article on the Northrop YF-17:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YF-17

 

[Quwa]

I can help you with some of the writing...we need to have a proper layout of the page; my suggestion:

1) General Summary. When project was started; goals; how it stands today.

2) Background information & history. Talk about goal for self-reliance; Super Sabre, Super-7, FC-1 PT-1/3; PT-4.

3) Project at present. Production in PAC; how PAF plans to procure the fighters...i.e. first 50 with Chinese stuff, later batches with Western, etc; prospects of AESA, new-gen weapon-systems; engine issues, etc.

4) Export prospects.

 

[hj786]

I can help you with some of the writing...we need to have a proper layout of the page; my suggestion:

1) General Summary. When project was started; goals; how it stands today.

2) Background information & history. Talk about goal for self-reliance; Super Sabre, Super-7, FC-1 PT-1/3; PT-4.

3) Project at present. Production in PAC; how PAF plans to procure the fighters...i.e. first 50 with Chinese stuff, later batches with Western, etc; prospects of AESA, new-gen weapon-systems; engine issues, etc.

4) Export prospects.

Sweet! Cheers Mark.
There was already some stuff about super-7, sabre-II, PT-1/3/4 there before in the Development section, I put a sub-heading "Origins" for it. I have added a couple of bits here and there but I need more sources for that.
The current layout is the same as other jet articles - it is standardised by wikipedia. Layout-wise I reckon it is pretty tidy, but content-wise it could use some work.
I think it needs another Design sub-section called "Airframe."