Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northern Thais Campaign


 * 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. postdlf (talk) 13:12, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Northern Thais Campaign

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Was tagged for speedy deletion as a blatant hoax, but it doesn't seem blatant enough to be clear vandalism to me - it's not really sourced, and it may well be a hoax, but I think it needs discussion rather than speedy deletion. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 11:43, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions.  —AustralianRupert (talk) 12:57, 25 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete Inability to cite to a reliable and verifiable source is okay for a page about the plot of a TV show, but not for a serious article. Unsourced pages about the events of World War II, in my opinion, should be presumed hoaxes unless proven authentic.  Mandsford 14:11, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - obvious hoax According to the article these events happened between November and December 1944, "after the defeat of the Japanese in Burma".  But in real life, the British only defeated in the Japanese in central Burma in February to May 1945 as described in the article on the Burma Campaign.
 * There was an Allied offensive in Northern Burma from October to December 1944, led initially by General Stilwell, followed by Lt Gen Daniel Sultan, which advanced from Myitkyina to Bhamo - but Bhamo is a long way from the Thai-occupied Burmese town of Kengtung mentioned in the article.--Toddy1 (talk) 15:34, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Delete Agree with Boing! that it is not necessarily a hoax. Even more so than with Thai invasion of northern Malaya, it seems this suffers from the current limitations of electronic translation. So much so that this, the more plausible of the two articles, is the less comprehensible of the two. I never vote delete on current article content alone, but the title is also flawed, and this content, properly sourced and rewritten, could just as easily fit into Thai occupation of northern Malaysia in any case. Anarchangel (talk) 14:46, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Unsourced and seems to be a hoax Nick-D (talk) 22:17, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't think this is a deliberate hoax - the whole thing is clearly poorly translated (from Thai, I'd guess) and I think it's more a clumsy attempt to describe some sort of military action during the Japanese occupation of Thailand in which some Thai forces may have taken part. But without sources that it actually happened and is notable, it should go. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 11:32, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - It is either a hoax or English so bad that the article cannot be salvaged. Either way, it is not useful in an encyclopedia. Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:28, 28 March 2011 (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.