Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Belligerents of the Syrian Civil 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   redirect to List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War. (non-admin closure) Ansh666 21:13, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Belligerents of the Syrian Civil War

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Undiscussed WP:MAF of Syrian Civil War and List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War without a single reference and was obviously copy/pasted from the mentioned articles. Fitzcarmalan (talk) 09:23, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete This is a fork of the above listed articles, but doesn't add anything. Frmorrison (talk) 16:55, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Middle East-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:19, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Syria-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:19, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:19, 4 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 06:40, 13 August 2014 (UTC)




 * Speedy delete per WP:CSD. This page is a mess. It actually copies material that does not pertain to its stated topic, it doesn't add anything not already covered in the existing articles, and the "must be split away from its base page" opinion stated in its first paragraph is ridiculous. Q VVERTYVS (hm?) 15:48, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep - regardless of the article's current condition and contents (it IS badly written), I think this article could be very useful if worked on and so should be kept. It is not OR or synthesis. Nor is it a fork of a single article - there are multiple articles dealing with the Syrian Civil War. A great deal of the discussion that goes on in those articles is about who and what are, or are not, the belligerents. So the topic is certainly notable and to have an article that summarises all the content for diverse articles would be useful, and could relieve pressure on other articles that are becoming overly long. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 16:55, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep This is not necessarily a fork, even if currently written as such. It can cover a sub-topic of "Syrian civil war;" the other article mentioned above is a list, which of necessity does not contain much information about each item in it. Ergo, detailed information about each belligerent may fall through the cracks if this article does not exist. Vanamonde93 (talk) 05:42, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * It is a fork and was copied word by word from the belligerents section of the main article, apparently without any discussion. The way it stands is very misleading, and the least we can do is to merge it with List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War. But the same content has to be removed from the Syrian Civil War article as well. Fitzcarmalan (talk) 17:05, 27 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 00:42, 21 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Merge with (if this article has any unique content) or redirect to (if this page doesn't have any unique content) List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War. Have the smallest amount of this content necessary at Syrian Civil War. Blaylockjam10 (talk) 11:01, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Redirect per above; duplicates the article mentioned above (WP:CFORK).  Sandstein   08:07, 30 August 2014 (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.