Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Secret German Aircraft of World War II


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The result was DELETE. postdlf (talk) 17:26, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Secret German Aircraft of World War II

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Rejected prod. Bizzare list that claims to list "Secret" German aircraft designs - or, to be more specific (and honest), the "napkinwaffe überweapons that would have won the war for Hitler if he'd just had six more months!" Nothing about these designs was especially "secret" except in the minds of sensational authors; most of the links are red; not all the projects are even from WWII (the Fw 42, for instance). In addition, this is redundant to both redundant to Category:World War II fighter aircraft of Germany and List of World War II military aircraft of Germany. And how do we decide what's "secret" enough to be included? It appears somebody merely trawled through luft46.com and assembled a list of what was there...

tl;dr: This is a list that has absurdly WP:OR-based inclusion criteria, is and likely forever will be mostly redlinks, is redundant to other, better lists and categories, and smells distinctly of fanboysim. Fails WP:OR, WP:LISTCRUFT. The Bushranger One ping only 05:00, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. The Bushranger One ping only 05:03, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. The Bushranger One ping only 05:04, 9 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. This is obviously redundant to List of World War II military aircraft of Germany as these aircraft proposals/designs are in no way 'secret'. Nick-D (talk) 07:28, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete: I'm suprised that this got de-prodded. I seconded it with "doesn't seem to be any secrets about this list, and its redundant to Category:World War II fighter aircraft of Germany and List of World War II military aircraft of Germany, poorly referenced, mostly redlinks", and still feel the same way. There is really nothing encyclopedic about this list at all, and simply smacks of some fanboy sensationalistic cruft.  bahamut0013  words deeds 14:33, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete: per Nick-D, redundant to List of World War II military aircraft of Germany. There is nothing on this list that defines why these were "secret", or how that classification would make them different to any other aircraft operated by Germany at the time. AustralianRupert (talk) 22:43, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - per nomination. Anotherclown (talk) 09:35, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and WP:SNOW WikiCopter (♠ • ♣ &bull; ♥ • ♦ &bull; simple • commons • lost • cvu • onau) 22:43, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
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