Template talk:Strategic bombing during World War II

Missing entries

 * Baedeker Raids? GraemeLeggett 14:51, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Additions
There have been a number of additions lately of smaller towns and instances of what are closer to tactical bombing than mass strategic bombing. The matching articles are stubby and currently add little to the subject. The effect is to bloat the template - do we need to rethink the scope and contents? GraemeLeggett 09:02, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes. Lets removing any links which are not to specific bombing articles or are stubs, and make it clear that in the template that this is about strategic bombing not tactical bombing raids. There will be some hazy areas, for example I would incldude all Blitzed cities, even ports which were attacked early on in the Battle of Britain and could be seen as tactical. Likewise I would include the Rotterdam Blitz because it had strategic repercussions, even though it can be argued that it was a tactical raid.
 * I think for tactical bombing raids should be in templates at the campaign or theatre level if they are done at all. --Philip Baird Shearer 12:05, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Split
Perhaps we could split the template, or divide the entries within it, by year, perpetrator or target? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 19:55, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Re-naming template – suggestion
Some of the bombings listed were non-city related/targeted. The most prominent of which is Pearl Harbor. Accordingly I recommend we rename the template as "WWII – major bombing missions". This template-name (or category) should include all of the big targets, military and civilian. More importantly, it will avoid POV issues. (Like: "TUV conducted a massive air-raid on the sleepy village of XYZ during the War of ABC".) – S. Rich (talk) 03:40, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'd prefer to leave it as city bombing and to include only towns and cities; otherwise it will get huge and will lose focus. I left Pearl Harbour there during my recent editing only because it seemed odd not to include it, given that it accounts for much of the Japan bombings. But it could be moved into the Japan section (bracketed or something), so that there isn't a United States section. SarahSV (talk) 04:16, 25 November 2019 (UTC)