Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of all war outbreaks during World War II


 * 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   merge to Declarations of War during World War II. Or List of military engagements of World War II if preferred. Stifle (talk) 16:14, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

List of all war outbreaks during World War II

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The article is a redundant content fork of information found at Declarations of War during World War II and List of military engagements of World War II. I took the article through requests for comment and a consensus was reached that the list serves no discernible purpose. The only editor who felt the article could be kept was the original creator. N4 (talk) 15:03, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

N4 (talk) 15:09, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

"Proposal: This article is redundant, any useful aspects of this article should be merged with pre-existing articles and this page should be nominated for deletion.
 * Support Wikipedia policy is to improve pre-existing articles rather than create new ones. The information here not available elsewhere seems limited at best and could be easily included in more concise articles. Even if the article was further developed and copyedited, I do not see the advantage to having a non-comprehensive list of individual attacks that lead to or follow from a declaration of war. N4 (talk) 15:29, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - pointless and gratuitous content fork. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  16:02, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete article, that is, 'Support merging. Does not serve an obvious independent purpose.  Robert McClenon (talk) 16:10, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm leaning merge as well, but the best article to merge to might be List of military engagements of World War II. Thargor Orlando (talk) 16:33, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't necessarily think it was a good idea to move the ongoing RfC to an AfD, especially when a merge consensus appears to be forming, but my first choice is a delete, with second as 'merge to List of military engagements of World War II. Thargor Orlando (talk) 15:15, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge. But I've already attempted merging with Declarations of War during World War II, but it was fruitless. Dates from which a state of war between nations emerges are importaint. To rule out the Soviet Union attacks on Poland and Finland -39, aswell as the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbour cannot be reguarded as NPOV. Content may be found in the Timeline, but there is an excess of information, for readers that are looking for days/dates when a war began. Hence the need. Boeing720 (talk) 17:13, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
 * After the mayor improvements of Declarations of War during World War II I have now changed my mind. Here I just want to add that when I first attempted to improve that list, encuggaged by user N4, everything soon was reverted. But I do agree that as of now List of all war outbreaks during World War II do no longer serve any purpose that cannot just as easy can be found at previously mentioned list, and hence the list should be erased. Boeing720 (talk) 11:45, 12 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Merge - As a content fork. (Declarations of War during World War II and List of military engagements of World War II are both good suggestions) --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 20:03, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - useless content fork. Rwenonah (talk) 23:10, 11 February 2014 (UTC)"
 * Comment I'm puzzled as to why this was brought here. Both the initial proposal and the subsequent consensus seemed to be to merge, so why not merge it? If there was questioning over the exact merge target, there are procedures to decide that. (See Merge and delete for why "merge and delete" should usually mean "merge".) --Colapeninsula (talk) 15:49, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment - I hadn't realized that was how merges worked. I saw that consensus was that the page shouldn't be kept and assumed that the merge takes place within the AfD process. I get the idea (from multiple editors) that I've gone about this the wrong way. Could someone please help me out and let me know what I'm supposed to do with the article and the AfD now? Sorry! N4 (talk) 16:06, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I hesitated over the above because I'm not sure if content was actually merged (i.e., was text actually copied from one page to another?) If nothing was merged, there's no need to preserve the page and it could be deleted; if it was merged, it should be replaced with a redirect. --Colapeninsula (talk) 18:43, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * The merge process is nominally handled through WP:PM and uses mergeto mergefrom merge tags. -- 70.24.244.161 (talk) 23:45, 12 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete as content fork of Declarations of War during World War II. Carrite (talk) 19:35, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 15:12, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 15:12, 13 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep or Merge It may be the same information, ut its presented in a much clearer, organised way here IMO. It would be a shame to lose it..--Coin945 (talk) 15:37, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:07, 14 February 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.