Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/British Forces Eastern Europe


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The result was keep. The article will be moved to NATO Enhanced Forward Presence next. (non-admin closure) GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 18:09, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

British Forces Eastern Europe

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I don't see any indication that this is an actual military formation. The name is also seemingly invented (no hits outside Wiki and its mirrors). Yes, some British soldiers will be deployed within NATO to bases in Eastern Europe, but this seems to be more or less business as usual for NATO. The deployment generated some news coverage, but it does not seem notable as a stand alone article. If this is something more that indeed merits its inclusion in Template:British Forces deployments - like being an equivalent of British Forces Germany which the article implies with no sources to back that - this needs better sources I can find. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 09:22, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
 * For a start this a NATO initiative, not purely a British one, with Germany taking the lead role in Lithuania, the US in Poland and Canada in Latvia. The deployment appears to be called by NATO "enhanced forward presence". This should be covered somewhere in our articles on NATO, without disconnecting the British troops from the overall context.--86.17.222.157 (talk) 12:07, 29 August 2016 (UTC)




 * Keep, but rename The standing deployment of British Army combat forces in Eastern Europe is clearly notable - there's been lots of coverage of the announcement of this, and we can confidently expect ongoing coverage. It's also not "business as usual for NATO" as this is a significant new initiative which reverses the British Army's withdrawal from continental Europe. The title of the article doesn't seem accurate, but this is an entirely viable topic. I agree with the IP editor above that this could be rolled into a broader article (eg, like the rather under-developed article on the US equivalent Operation Atlantic Resolve), but there's no reason to delete. Nick-D (talk) 12:06, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 12:42, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 12:42, 2 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep, but rename per Nick-D. The NATO Enhanced Forward Presence does seem notable so this article could be used as the basis for an article on it (given that the British deployment is a subset of the wider initiative which also involves the US, Germany and Canada). Alternatively, we could merge and redirect to the NATO article and include a section in the "Military operations" section. Anotherclown (talk) 07:47, 4 September 2016 (UTC)


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