Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of books about 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 of the debate was delete consensus seems to be that this particular list 's function can be performed by a category, such as the already populated Category:World War II books. W.marsh 20:36, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

List of books about World War II
pointless and potentially endless list. many of these are indeed famous books about WWII, but there seems no point to having such a list -- this would be much better done with a category, if at all. not an encyclopedic list. DES (talk) 00:32, 7 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete. A category would be much better indeed -- this is the most documented war in history. Grandmasterka 01:08, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, users should be able to find examples of famous books about WWII, and those examples should be annotated to helps them choose which link to click on. Kappa 01:18, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't see you volunteering to annotate that list... --Agamemnon2 08:55, 7 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Replace with category. Royboycrashfan 02:53, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Replace with cat. If kept, all books should have wiki-links.  Red links can be stubbed or removed as non-notable. -- Karnesky 03:12, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Replace with a category. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 03:28, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Until such time as somebody links all the books and is able to form a category. This is a fairly extensive list, it would be a shame to lose all those books just because the list isn't encyclopedic.  I'd say keep the list, form the category, link all the books, then delete the list. Batman2005 04:05, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete If this stays, I could go through the whole Dewey Decimal System and write a list Ruby 04:34, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * A list of books? Kappa 04:45, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Well there we go, how about a merge? Ruby 04:47, 7 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Replace. with category. Nightmare to update. Keep the redlink info in various ways named above.Pschemp | Talk 06:09, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Pointless and perpetually incomplete partial bibliography. No attempt at a critical appraisal of the titles or a grouping by subject/argument/theme, so of no use to a researcher attempting to determine which if any book they should select for further study. Even if it were possible to be comprehensive, the list would need a complete bibliographic record in order to be useful for a researcher - title, author, publisher, date & place of publication.  See British Library and Library of Congress records for details.   (aeropagitica)   07:06, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Use a category if need be. -R. fiend 07:53, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep --Ter e nce Ong (恭喜发财) 10:55, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, use category for books which have articles. --Squiddy | (squirt ink?)  11:53, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Either clarify inclusion criteria (fiction/non-fiction? How much should the war be mentioned?) or categorize. Right now, there's too many possible books to enter, making it unmaintainable. - Mgm|(talk) 11:55, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep AND create a category as they serve totally different purposes. Jcuk 12:34, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, until and unless it is changed to List of notable books about World War II and "notable" is quantified. The page itself made me shudder.  User:Zoe|(talk) 17:44, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Categorize I generally like lists more than cats, but this is a text-book case of where a cat trumps a list. There should be multiple sub-cats, too.  young  american  (talk) [[Image:Flag of West Virginia.svg|25px|  ]] [[Image:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg|25px|  ]] 18:55, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Categorize I generally don't think that lists should be deleted based on potentially infinte numbers of members, but here a cat or several is better than the ambiguous list. Carlossuarez46 19:26, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as listcruft. Scoo 20:17, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete and categorize this list, although the category will eventually have to be split. It's so broadly defined it's meaningless.  Does Diary of Anne Frank belong on this list, with no military action?  Catch 22 or Naked and the Dead, all fictional?  Mein Kampf, written well before the war?  All arguable.  More specific categories would ultimately be far more helpful.  --Lockley 22:29, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as listcruft. Create a category. &mdash; Rebelguys2 talk 02:45, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Replace with category. &mdash;-- That Guy, From That Show!  (talk) 2006-02-08 15:55Z 
 * keep & expand add authors for each book.Mike McGregor (Can) 01:36, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep -- S iva1979 Talk to me  13:23, 10 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete and replace with category. -- Pierremenard 08:44, 12 February 2006 (UTC)


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