Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Freedom fighter vs repatriated from West Pakistan issue in Bangladesh Army


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The result was delete.  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 20:02, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Freedom fighter vs repatriated from West Pakistan issue in Bangladesh Army

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This nomination was attempted by who : POV fork, non neutral style and bare urls, Overall poor quality of editing. Note use of peacock words "freedom fighter" and "brutal". I can add, that the matter is briefly mentioned in Hussain Muhammad Ershad, and if it deserves expansion, I think the natural place would be in Bangladesh Army, not as a stand-alone article. The article title is IMO totally obscure. Delete per WP:DEL5. — Sam Sailor 11:16, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. — Sam Sailor 11:17, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions. — Sam Sailor 11:17, 19 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2017 February 19.  —cyberbot I   Talk to my owner :Online 11:30, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete: POV name and a content fork. K.e.coffman (talk) 09:29, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete as WP:POVFORK. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:27, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete if it was really an issue of note then it can be mentioned in the Army article. MilborneOne (talk) 23:16, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - as my nomination. CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   21:21, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge, as an alternative to deletion, to Bangladesh Army.
 * Nominator claims this is a WP:POVFORK, but there is zero evidence of that. If it is a fork, what article was it forked from? Was there any disagreement about the content of that article? Does this article espouse a different POV from another article? The subject is briefly mentioned in Hussain Muhammad Ershad, but only in the narrow context of his keeping a lid on the rivalry during his rule. All the evidence is that the original author had three reliable sources (a book from a publisher specializing in military history, a book from a university press, and a book from a major academic publisher) that all discuss a vital historical cleavage in the Bangladesh Army, and thought the topic merited an article.
 * None of the nom's other objections are reasons to delete an article. All can be fixed by editing. Indeed, the bare urls and word 'brutal' already have been. The English is sub-standard, perhaps it is not the authors first language, but I see no evidence of intentional "non neutral style". 'Freedom fighter' can be a loaded term. One could perhaps call them revolutionaries or rebels, but freedom fighters is what the sources call them, albeit one puts the words in quotes.


 * With respect to participants' questions "if it deserves expansion" and "if it was really an issue of note", I quote from the Library of Congress's public domain Bangladesh: A Country Study:

"The bitter rift between military personnel who returned to Bangladesh after liberation and freedom fighters who had fought in the war was to have profound consequences for the new nation. The repatriates, who had languished in West Pakistani jails during the civil war, were absorbed into an army dominated by former guerrillas ... The rift between repatriates and freedom fighters worsened considerably ... Tensions within the military exploded on August 15, 1975, when thirty middle-ranking army officers, many of whom were repatriates, staged a coup ... the mutineers assassinated Mujib [the President] ... Freedom-fighter elements within the army countered this so-called "majors' plot" by staging a coup of their own ... A total breakdown in discipline within the military occurred shortly after this second coup ... [Zia] staged a third coup ..."


 * This goes on for several pages. Although the split within the military wasn't the only factor driving events, reliable sources say it contributed to multiple coups, years of military dictatorship, and still reverberates today between the two major political parties, led for three decades by the daughters of Mujib and Zia respectively.


 * The only point on which I can agree with the nominator is that the title is awful. Absent a better one, merge. --Worldbruce (talk) 03:50, 24 February 2017 (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.