Talk:Battle of Đồng Đăng (1885)

use of "refuse"
Can anybody explain the meaning of "refuse" in "he [de Négrier] now decided to refuse his left wing"? I have a feeling this must be some sort of artefact of translation, or such, but no idea what. If it's other than the common meaning of to decline to accept, or reject, etc., is there a more obvious substitute?

Graham.Fountain | Talk 14:44, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Requested move of 27 March 2016

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The result of the move request was: moved. Number   5  7  16:21, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Battle of Đồng Đăng → Battle of Đồng Đăng (1885) – The year of the battle should be clearly stated to distinguish from the Battle of Dong Dang (1979). Dino nam (talk) 16:31, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello, that doesn't quite suffice in terms of rationale. The 1885 is currently set up as a primary topic. This would suggest that battle has considerable more historic importance than the one of 1979. It also has more internal wikilinks than the other article. You would need to argument why the 1979 is at least equally important as the 1885 battle. In that case, the page could be moved, and a dab page created. --Midas02 (talk) 16:16, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Actually when I established the article about the 1979 battle, I didn't know how to change names of articles, so I had no other choice but to leave the name of this article like that, and I think that's why it has still been the primary topic until now. I have never seen see any academic RS that says which battle has more historic importance than the other. In fact, when I search for the 1885 battle on Google, there are only about 34,100 results; 193,000 results are detected when I search for the 1979 battle.117.6.88.137 (talk) 02:21, 1 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Support making the two base names becoming MILHIST one set index listing all the battles while both articles have years on their names -- 70.51.46.39 (talk) 05:22, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Support proposed move, with a disambiguation page at the basename - unless someone can clearly show that one of the battles is definitely the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Bazonka (talk) 10:50, 4 April 2016 (UTC)


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