Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/First Maroon 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 Keep. Catchpole 20:58, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] First Maroon War and Second Maroon War

• I am also nominating the following related pages
• Second Maroon War

This and the related article do not give any context and need substantial work to be able to stand alone as Wiki articles. At the moment, neither manges to explain itself and I get the impression that they have been copied from some other source verbatim, but have no evidence for this. A solution could be to merge the two articles, but a better idea could be to delete both and merge them into History of Jamaica Emeraude 18:13, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

• Merge to History of Jamaice and copyedit Arnoutf 21:16, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Being badly written is not a criterion for deletion and these wars were real and notable (although usually called the Maroon Rebellions, I believe). Significant events in a country's history usually get their own articles and are not merely footnotes in the general article on a country's history, so why not these? -- Necrothesp 02:40, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, easily notable events. Everyking 07:50, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep both Notable events in Jamaica and in the history of British slavery. They need cleaning up of course. (And at least one local site says "war" [1]) --Mereda 10:26, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep both Historic notable events. If this much detail was given to every period of Jamaican history in the History of Jamaica article, that article would be way too long. --Marriedtofilm 17:28, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, not even the worst articles I have seen... Merging, and possibly purging the text if necessary, can be taken after this discussion is closed. Tizio, Caio, Sempronio 17:03, 23 October 2006 (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.