Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Latin American revolutions


 * 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 Latin American wars of independence.  MBisanz  talk 01:55, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Latin American revolutions

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Article is merged into the better, more specifically named Latin American wars of independence The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick t 01:32, 5 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep and merge why set up a AfD when you could simply merge the article? That way all of the material and edit history is left entact. travb (talk) 03:29, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 03:53, 5 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete The article has been included into the Latin American wars of independence page. There is no more need to it.--&#91;&#124;!*//MarshalN20\\*!&#124;&#93; (talk) 07:14, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete A little confused here, if you have merged this article already, and it's information is a redundant duplicate then yes, delete. Ryan 4314   (talk) 18:34, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Why not merge, so the article content history is accessible? travb (talk) 20:16, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The information from this article was included into the Latin American Revolutions article. There is no point to keep the content history if it is by no means productive, especially since there is no citations that validate information.--&#91;&#124;!*//MarshalN20\\*!&#124;&#93; (talk) 22:14, 5 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete This is written by someone whose view of a "revolution" is limited to the 1776 American type, which was would be described as a "war of independence", and that's been done, as described above. When one thinks about how many governmental shakeups and civil wars in Latin America have been described as revolutions (such as the Mexican Revolution of 1910), it's hard to look at this article as being encyclopedic.  See List of revolutions and rebellions to see how many uprisings there have been in Central America and South America over the years. Mandsford (talk) 22:31, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Latin American wars of independence. Why do you want to delete this?  It sounds like a reasonable search term to me.  LinguistAtLarge &bull; Msg  23:24, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * As noted above, "revolution" does not just mean a war of independence, so redirect is not a good idea. If anything, it should redirect to the list of revolutions, but that's not a good idea either.  Mandsford (talk) 02:16, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment Agreed.  For example, the Cuban Revolution, the Mexican Revolution, the Guatemalan Revolution and the Nicaraguan Revolution were Latin American revolutions that were not wars of independence.  Indeed, they took place long after independence.   The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick t 03:05, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Latin American wars of independence. The latin americans revolutioned therefore i think it should redirect--EuroHistoryTeacher (talk) 22:07, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. If content has been merged into another article then the history needs to be preserved somewhere for GFDL purposes. Phil Bridger (talk) 22:12, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Merging the content is okay, but please no redirect -- that's just plain wrong from a dictionary standpoint. What one person described as a group of people that "revolutioned" actually would be that they "revolted" (revolution can also refer to something that has "revolved", such as the Earth around the Sun).  All wars of independence are revolutions, but not all revolutions are wars of independence.  In European history, the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, etc. were not wars of independence, and revolutions have occurred in many Latin American nations -- the 50th anniversary of the end of the Cuban Revolution was celebrated just last week. Mandsford (talk) 01:42, 8 January 2009 (UTC)


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