Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Western Front


 * 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. with Western Front (disambiguation) moved to Western Front after deletion. The Bushranger One ping only 00:59, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Western Front

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I don't see any reason for this article. A "western front" is just a superficial variation of a "military front", and there isn't enough continuity between the western fronts in the First and Second World Wars to have an article for both of them in addition to the individual articles Western Front (World War I) and Western Front (World War II).

Currently, this article is just a two-sentence lede plus summaries of those two articles and a medium-length bibliography, so I don't see anything to merge into another article. Deleting the article will allow us to move Western Front (disambiguation) to take its place.

I'm not entirely sure I'm in the right place, but I don't think the talk page would get enough attention. —Neil P. Quinn (talk) 19:37, 4 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete and move dab page here per nom. No brainer. It's just a subset of the dab page anyway. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:37, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment I'm not sure if I understand the problem here. The article is about the western front.  As there were two significant western fronts (WWI and WWII) it then goes on to point to those particular articles.  Would it be better to merge the other two articles into this one?  Do we really want more disambig pages?  They're a pain in the arse - like every time I want to read something about Georgia I get treated like a kid and get asked whether I mean Georgia or the US state of Georgia.  -- XANIA - ЗAНИAWikipedia talk &#124; talk 12:18, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, right now we essentially have two disambig pages: Western Front and Western Front (disambiguation). That's a problem in itself, but on top of that, Western Front isn't a good disambig page, since it only points to two of the possible meanings (Western Front (World War I) and Western Front (World War II)) and includes way too much summary about those two. So I suggest we scrap it and have Western Front (disambiguation) take over. That would cut two disambig pages down to one, which sounds like something you'd approve of.—Neil P. Quinn (talk) 20:18, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom Thank you for clarifying that. In that case I support the proposal.-- XANIA - ЗAНИAWikipedia talk &#124; talk 11:36, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Europe-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:40, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:41, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:41, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Delete. Srnec (talk) 02:40, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete "Western Front" itself isn't a significant concept apart from existing content about each of the world wars. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 19:10, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Reduce to a dab-page -- Or rather move the dabpage here. The subject is a likely search term, but the article is not a useful one.  Even a WWII article can hardly be a satisfactory one, as there was only a front 1939-40 and 1944-5.  Peterkingiron (talk) 18:54, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
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