Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of equipment used by the Wehrmacht


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The result was delete. Spartaz Humbug! 21:31, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

List of equipment used by the Wehrmacht

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Article is almost an exact copy of List of German military equipment of World War II which covers the topic more thoroughly. Creating a page for just the Wehrmacht would open the door for redundant pages on the SS, Kriegsmarine, and whatever other Nazi German branch that would illustrate pretty much the same thing.--Molestash (talk) 18:05, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. L3X1  (distænt write)  20:43, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Weak Merge. AfD is the wrong venue. I'm only !voting merge since List of German military equipment of World War II has sub-pages for the navy and air-force, with the actual listing in the article itself being land forces. The topic itself could be notable standalone (and if List of German military equipment of World War II were evolved to link to here and contain a summary - that would be fine too). The list contents (which also includes service dates and pictures for vehicles) are not the same as List of German military equipment of World War II - so a merge would be required in any event. Note that we have lists of equipment for different service branches of other armies - e.g. - List of equipment of the United States Army during World War II, List of weapons of the United States Marine Corps, List of equipment of the United States Army. Different service branches sometimes differ widely in actual kit employed (e.g. - the USMC continues use of the Cobra attack helicopters vs. the army's Apache - and a multitude of other kit differences).Icewhiz (talk) 07:24, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. This list seems nicer/more usable than the more general "...military equipment" list, though. Haikon 12:58, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Reverse merge -- The present target refers to "main" articles on the navy and air force. When these are removed, there will be army equipment and missiles (including secret weapons).  The difficulty may arise from the American view that treats the navy as military, contrary to the proper meaning of that word, which is derived from miles - Latin for soldier.  After merging the army section, it may be useful to convert the present article into a dab-page, though that would require the missiles to be moved to another article.  Technically the SS divisions were organisationally not part of the Wehrmacht, but their equipment was probably the same, so that the distinction is insignificant.  Posssibly the target should be List of German army equipment of World War II.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:48, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   08:29, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete First of all, Wehrmacht meant all three services; the Army was the Heer. Now, I realise that in some countries, for bureacratic reasons, the different services were equipped with very different equipment. But in the Wehrmacht we have all three services (plus the SS) all fielding ground troops, and all equipped with the same weapons, ending up with a lot of duplication and not much value.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  21:25, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete -- List of German military equipment of World War II already exists and is sufficient. K.e.coffman (talk) 06:49, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete, per Hawkeye7 and K.e.; redundant and not for one specific branch. Kierzek (talk) 18:51, 7 December 2017 (UTC)


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