Template talk:Middle East conflicts

Deletion
I sibject this page for deletion. It makes sense to open a category on middle eastern conflicts instead, not a template. This is a very limited info template (just compare it to List of modern conflicts in the Middle East or List of conflicts in the Middle East), and it would be very hard to synchronize it with relevant pages when adding information to wikipedia.Greyshark09 (talk) 18:36, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Since it was decided to keep it, i would just put categories for periods instead of few modern conflicts, since it is not possible to include all conflicts since ancient times.Greyshark09 (talk) 21:50, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Consolidation
The template is now consolidated in accordance with the page List of modern conflicts in the Middle East. Editors are welcome to assist.Greyshark09 (talk) 18:02, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Sudan and other North African countries do not belong to Middle East (West Asia)
There is some confusion in Western media about this, but Middle East is roughly corresponding West Asia, while North Africa is a separate region. There was an artificial term "Greater Middle East", which tried to integrate North Africa, West Asia and Central Asia, but it has largely fell into disuse in the last decade (it was also very English World-centric, so wasn't in use anywhere else).Greyshark09 (talk) 21:26, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

The inclusion of conflict with no pages
I stand against. If they're not notable enough to have articles, what makes them notable enough to be included in this template? Juno (talk) 09:56, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Arab-Israeli wars
Would it not make more sense to include well-known individual wars on the template(6 Day War, Yom Kippur etc) rather than subsuming them under the 'Arab-Israeli conflict' banner WisDom-UK (talk) 23:52, 31 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I have now added the major wars. Not sure why the most famous ME conflicts in the the past few decades were subsumed under 1940s 'Arab-Israeli conflict'. If the principal is that all were basically different episodes in one war, then why do we not similarly subsume the North/South Yemen civil wars into one entry, or the numerous Kurdish uprisings into one entry 'Kurdish rebellion 1910s - present') etc.? Even then, I would dispute that the Arab-Israeli wars were the same when the actors differed (Suez was wholly and Egyptian-Israeli affair, Jordan didn't participate in the Yom Kippur War etc).WisDom-UK (talk) 14:52, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

If we split every prolonged conflict such as Iran-Iraq War or Lebanese Civil War, it would over-inflate the table.GreyShark (dibra) 07:07, 14 August 2020 (UTC)