Talk:German invasion of Norway

Considering the fact that Operation Weserübung contains only cursory information on the invasion of Norway, whereas Norwegian Campaign provides a detailed account of the same invasion, I am changing this redirect.--Barend (talk) 10:13, 28 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Operation Weserübung was the code name for the German invasion of Norway and Denmark. Your issue seems to be that invasion section of the Norwegian Campaign article sums up the events better than the Operation Weserübung article. Is that correct? Then fix it. Add to the Operation Weserübung article, don't link to articles you mistakenly assume to be intended to cover said invasion. Norwegian Campaign is about the whole campaign, as it relates to Norway, not just the invasion. Manxruler (talk) 19:27, 28 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I only have one concern here, and that is that Wikipedia function better as a reference work. I recently wanted to see that Wikipedia had to say about the German invasion of Poland and the ensuing campaign in 1939. I entered German invasion of Poland and was redirected to an article that gave me a thorough account of that invasion. I did the same for German invasion of the Netherlands and found a good article about that topic. German invasion of Yugoslavia the same. When I tried German invasion of Norway, I was disappointed. The article Operation Weserübung, which I was redirected too, only had a cursory summary of events in Norway. I was indeed wondering whether I should, for the first time in years, try to write an extensive re-edit of an English Wikipedia article. But then, some days later, I happened across the article Norwegian Campaign, which is the exact article I was looking for when I typed German invasion of Norway in the search field. That article does cover the said invasion, whatever Manxruler's ideas about what it is intended to cover.
 * Also, in case this is the source of disagreement: It is a mistake to assume that the "invasion" took place on 9 April, and the subsequent events were something else. The term invasion can rightly be used to cover the whole two month period until Norwegian capitulation. That is how the term is used in the other invasion-articles I mentioned earlier.
 * My only point here is to make it easier for the user to find the material s/he is looking for on Wikipedia. Surely, that is what we all should be interested in. But if the main intention is splitting hairs, then be my guest. I have made my point, now do what you like.--Barend (talk) 09:49, 1 May 2012 (UTC)