Talk:2003 invasion of Iraq/Other-Talk

Is there a policy on deleting information that other contributors have carefully assembled? Or is a contributor entitled to change an article or disambiguation page into a redirect with no discussion? --Uncle Ed 19:50 Apr 1, 2003 (UTC)


 * Cunctator didn't delete the info - he moved it (rather clumsily imo) to 2003 invasion of Iraq. Personally I preferred the seperate articles - with an overview article here at 2003 Iraq war, and a specific article on the invasion itself at 2003 invasion of Iraq. Martin

I frequently misunderstand the Cunctator, but I believe his heart is in the right place. Thanks for restoring the, um, clumsily moved text. --Uncle Ed 21:31 Apr 1, 2003 (UTC)


 * Oh I agree. The Cunctator's an excellent contributor - and he can't help it if he's wrong about some questions. After all, disagreeing with me is practically the definition of "wrong" ;-) Martin

I fail to see what the utility is in having both this entry and 2003 invasion of Iraq. Their content is, one might say, identically the same. There is no war but the invasion. --The Cunctator


 * While I was convinced of the utility of a seperate entry, I'm no longer so sure on the matter. I won't object if you merge the content (though I still believe that this is a better title) Martin

JohnOwens, you reverted 206.96.112.254's edit, not mine. --Duckie 22:17 Apr 9, 2003 (UTC)

No offense to the Joseph Menusa family, but what historical significance does he merit getting his own name listed in this article, while plenty others are not individually named in this article? Kingturtle 05:44 Apr 16, 2003 (UTC)

Why I restored the redirect
I accidentally stumbled across the fact that there are two articles covering the same topic, with very much the same content. I have not contributed to either article, and I really don't care which title is the redirect and which is the main article. Having said that, it's very important that we don't have two very similar articles. That's an invitation for POV forks and all kinds of other nasty business. Since this page was first converted to a redirect on 00:47, 16 Apr 2003, and stayed as such until the past week, I restored things back to the status quo. Since there's no discussion of splitting the article on 2003 Invasion of Iraq's talk page, it doesn't seem like there was a consensus to do so. Please resolve on that page's talk page what to do about naming/splitting. Feco 04:52, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)