Talk:Battle of Bab al-Mandab

Merge
 Onel 5969  TT me 13:19, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Support merge - no point in having several stubs when it is easier for researchers if they are all contained in a reasonable length article.
 * Oppose merge - Same reason for other articles a merge was proposed for: User Wareno proposed a merge due to notability yet the article meets the criteria set in WP:GNG. Moreover, the article is a separate relevant battle related to an ongoing conflict between the Portuguese and the Ottomans in the Red Sea, cherrypicking which articles should be merged is ridiculous. Also the user Wareno who began merging these articles (without discussion) nominated them for deletion, despite the result being keep he continued to merge the articles without discussion, clearly POV pushing and WP:JDLI. Regards, Kabz15 (talk)
 * Support. Does not meet WP:GNG. The user who created this page just likes dedicating articles to extremely trivial events, does not seem aware that Wikipedia allows users to take the initiative to merge pages, and does not respect consensus after the merge had been performed twice by two different users. Wareno (talk) 15:50, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Support, with the caveat that I was unable to access Casale, G. (2008), which is the most-used source in the article. Across the other sources, while it's confirmed that a battle occurred, none spend more than a few sentences on it and all say essentially the same information. Per WP:DUE, our depth of coverage should be the same, a few sentences to a paragraph in articles about Ottoman-Portuguese conflicts. Notably, none of the sources I reviewed actually name the battle or mention Bab al-Mandab. I could be swayed otherwise with quotes from Casale, G. (2008). signed,Rosguill talk 01:52, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
 * The source does mention Bab al-Mandab please see pp.60-62 here. Kabz15 (talk)