Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American prisoners of war


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete without prejudice to starting a new article with the same title -- Scott Burley (talk) 02:45, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

American prisoners of war

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The content of this article does not match the title, and it is to be doubted whether we need an article that merely confirms that there are no extant American POWs.

1. There is, for all I know, an article to be written on the subject of American POWs. This is not it, and pretty much none of the content here is it.

2. There is not, so far as I can see, call for an article entitled "There are no American POWs right now", which is the subject matter of this article.

To the extent there is any useful content in this article, I suspect it would be more usefully found in Prisoner of war.

In conclusion: I can see no justification for this article title nor content and think the best course of action is deletion. Tagishsimon (talk) 02:34, 30 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Prisoner of war — Rutebega ( talk ) 03:55, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. MrClog (talk) 08:40, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. MrClog (talk) 08:40, 30 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete without prejudice to starting a new article with the same title - really the current content of this article seems to be about the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, but as a title it seems inappropriate for this. I think a new article could be started about US POWs in general (not American, as this is ambiguous given that this is also the name of the continent), either as a full article or as a disambiguation page with links to the different articles about US POWs in Vietnam, Korea, WW2 etc. As it stands, though, there is no clear redirect for this page-title. Prisoners of War seems inappropriate since it is not specific to American POWs and not a plausible search term for someone looking for that page. FOARP (talk) 12:27, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete but allow recreation per FOARP. This provides nothing over Prisoner of war and U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War. Reywas92Talk 22:27, 3 May 2019 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.