Talk:White Guard (Slovenia)

Merger?
Anti-Communist Volunteer Militia article is the same as the V.A.C. article

it would be more useful to merge the two articles with a new more inclusive name

may be Anti Communist Volounteer Militia_(V.A.C.)

the hyphen is wrong

then there is the problem the term covers three different organizations in Slovenia, Dalmatia/Bosnia and Montenegro and the correct name changed lightly in each country

Bande V.A.C. was more common in Dalmatia

M.V.A.C. was used in Slovenia but in Dalmatia was used to descibe the regimental level units not the organization as a whole

Cunibertus (talk) 16:36, 26 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Merge the two articles under the title Voluntary Anti-Communist Militia, as that is the term most widely used by historians. Establish redirects from the various other permutations. AlasdairGreen27 (talk) 17:06, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

The White Guard was actually a distinct organization, which was used as part of the MVAC. Hence the confusion. I'll try to fix that. Jean-Jacques Georges (talk) 14:55, 13 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Merge I don't think this topic warrants its own article especially one in the current condition. It would make more sense to incorporate this into the MVAC article as a section about it in particular or about the general structure of MVAC in general. I'm not saying that the topic can't have its own article in principle, but given what it looks like now I think readers would benefit from having it incorporated into a wider context. If the prose matures further in future it can always be spawned off on its own. The thing is that this subject matter is complicated enough in the best of circumstances and having isolated content just for the sake of having seperate articles makes very little sense to me in this case. --U5K0'sTalkMake WikiLove not WikiWar 22:46, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi. As an afterthought, it might be better this way, at least for the moment. Jean-Jacques Georges (talk) 07:55, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Then again, the article could also redirect to Slovene Home Guard, since the monicker "White Guard" is quite frequent for this organization (actually more than for the MVAC, it seems), or it could be just changed into a disambiguation page. Jean-Jacques Georges (talk) 11:59, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Merge proposal
Ok, as you can see above, I have some responsibility in the current situation, as I created the article which was originally a redirect towards Anti-Communist Volunteer Militia. However, I think this was a bad idea for the start, as "White Guard" was only a nickname given by Slovene Partisans to several organisations : the Slovene Anti-Communist Volunteer Militia, the Slovene Home Guard, and the Slovenian Alliance as a whole. I think it would be better to have a redirect to the disambiguation page, and explain there that the name was used to refer to several different groups (creating a Slovenian Alliance might be useful, too, but that's another matter). Jean-Jacques Georges (talk) 12:15, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Merged. 08:18, 28 January 2015 (UTC)