Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Major wars


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The result was   delete. WP:SNOW. postdlf (talk) 21:11, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

List of Major wars

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A poorly defined creation, mistitled, and easily replaced by any number of lists, including List of wars by death toll.  Veggies  ( talk ) 14:56, 23 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. There aren't any clear guidelines as it stands for determining what a "major" war is, and honestly, if we aren't determining that by death toll, I don't see how this could work without getting into OR. (The article as it's currently envisioned certainly is.) If we are determining by death toll, we already have a list. We don't need a second one. Egsan Bacon (talk) 21:28, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - I'm willing to bet there are plenty of papers that list wars based on criteria that aren't death toll, but this list doesn't even describe why these wars are major. A list based on assessment by scholars would take considerable time and effort to compile and would have to start from scratch. mol  uɐɯ  21:33, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete This isn't the first time this editor has ignored WP:FIRST. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 02:51, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete -- The simple question is how major is "major"? That is obviously a POV issue.   Peterkingiron (talk) 17:38, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete as above. There is no definition of Major. Is it size, length of war, number of causalities, consequences. The Battle of Hastings lasted less than a day, maybe 6000 people died, but it is considered a major war from a historical perspective. The Cold War lasted over 40 years, but no major battles took place directly between the US and USSR, fighting was done by proxy. The Iran-Iraq War lasted eight years, there were hundreds of thousands killed, yet there was no significant change in government or borders as a result. Major in this sense is meaningless. Martin 4 5 1  19:22, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
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