Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Military Stradegy of the American Civil War


 * 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   delete.  MBisanz  talk 03:25, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Military Strategy of the American Civil War

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This article reads like a personal essay and contains WP:POV and WP:OR. It is too far from meeting Wikipedia's quality standards to justify a cleanup tag. -Freqsh0 (talk) 19:50, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. School project essay that is going to get marked down due to the misspelling of strategy. Nuttah (talk) 19:56, 5 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete. Not only is it POV, OR, and essayish, the article contains information that should be in the articles on American Civil War and Military leadership in the American Civil War. Karanacs (talk) 19:57, 5 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Strong Delete Wikipedia is not for school essays. That is all this article is.  This article does not provide any information not already addressed in various other articles about the American Civil War.  Needless article, does not add to Wikipedia, content is available elsewhere and would not be sufficient as a stand-alone article even with cleanup. Theseeker4 (talk) 20:16, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:OR, WP:NOT. Do not merge, since there is a misspelling in the title. RayAYang (talk) 20:34, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete The typographical error was taken care of with a redirect; typos happen, and we all learn eventually what it means to move an article. Nevertheless, even if Noah Webster had written this, it appears to be an essay or term paper that has been submitted to Wikipedia.  A term paper or essay starts with a thesis and then attempts to prove it; the encyclopedic style is, pardon the pun, the antithesis of an essay.  Rather than trying to construct an article for a subject too vast to be contained in a few pages, I'd recommend that the author contribute to other articles about Civil War weaponry and tactics, using some of the infomation gleaned from the sources.  Mandsford (talk) 21:12, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions.   —Nick-D (talk) 23:59, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I was surprised to see the format of this article, as it included references; but still the WP:NOT bit about being essays is overwhelming. Surely a myspace site would be a good place to host this paper, if the creator really wants to see it online?  Nyttend (talk) 05:30, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Super delete. Completely violates our no original research policy.  JBsupreme (talk) 03:34, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as an essay (even though there are "70" sources, lol). Tavix (talk) 06:22, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. --MaNeMeBasat (talk) 15:03, 8 December 2008 (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.