Talk:White phosphorus munitions/Archives/2006/October

Moved Use in Iraq section to own article
It was a large section, and ought to be in own article. Now it can also get proper categories attached that shouldn't be attached to this article. If I have messed up some of the references I apologise, I did not delete any in this article but copied some to the new. A human 04:44, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I think that creating the Use in Iraq article was the proper thing to do. In this article I believe there should be a sentence or two in the History section about the use in Iraq, and the Use in Iraq section should be deleted. Also, there should be a link to the Use in Iraq article in the See Also section. I will wait at least a day to see if there is any disagreement before I make changes. Hildenja 02:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Merge White phosphorus use in Iraq here
It's a POV fork, with not enough content to justify a separate article (content's principally made out of external links). Santa Sangre 18:09, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * No Merge I disagree, on general principle -- politicising technical articles always ruins them. In addition, it is a pretty minor affair in the long history of military use of WP; other than the fact it is currently a matter of interest to various activisits, why on earth would we have a section specifically about Iraq, but not one for WWI, WW2, Korea, the Malayan Emergency, Vietnam, etc. etc.? It would be far better to merge it into an Iraq war article, and let this one stay as technical as possible. -- Securiger 04:29, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * No Merge There is already a mention of use of WP in Iraq in 2003 invasion of Iraq (second paragraph) maybe mergeWhite phosphorus use in Iraq into that article, better yet write/expand it until it's an actual article and link to it from all the relevant articles    Pedant 08:45, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
 * No Merge The use of WP in Iraq caused controversy, and deserves own article and should be filed under diff. categories than WP. SlowSam 21:50, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * No Merge I agree with Securiger.  Why should the use of WP in Iraq merit its own section?  There was probably ten times as much WP used in Vietnam compared to Iraq.  Forget it.  Hildenja 14:47, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * No Merge and delete WP in Iraq article. There is ample information in this article and the 2003 invasion article. WP use was far more prolific during WWI and WWII so much more that a use in Iraq article is unjustified. Why not a use of WP in France, use of WP in Italy, use of WP in Germany, use of WP in Poland, use of WP in Russia, use of WP in Manchuria, use of WP on the Korean peninsula. I'm sure all of those locations had more WP use in them than Iraq. --Dual Freq 19:38, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
 * No Merge (I see a pattern here) the merge request argument, POV fork, looks outdated and ridiculously political by now. It is only actually bound to iraq but a merge would be unencyclopedic. Also read and agree with all the above. --Ollj 00:29, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
 * No Merge I agree with the above that the use of wp in Iraq deserves only the briefest of mentions here. However, I see no objection to retaining a separate article for the use of phosphorous in Iraq - and, for that matter, creating an article on WP in WWII if you want - subject only to the confines of NPOV and NOR. AndrewRT - Talk 20:24, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Based on the above comments there seems to be little support for the merge so I will delete the tag. AndrewRT - Talk 20:24, 23 October 2006 (UTC)