Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Armed conflicts

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The result of the debate was redirect to war Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 21:53, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Armed conflicts

This is a page that tries to list all armed conflicts in the world in an "A vs. B, (1990)" format. I think it's supposed to list only ongoing conflicts. The listings of A and B can be interesting at times: "Somalia vs. Rival Clans (1991)", "Israel vs. Palestinan Authority; Hezbollah; Palestinan Separatists; Arab World (1948)", "USA; UK; Australlia vs. Iraq; France (2003)". (That last one was in a previous edit). I can't see this ever being a useful resource because of three reasons: 1) defining each individual conflict 2) identifying the parties for inclusion on either side 3) determining ongoing/dormant/resolved conflicts. Feco 02:22, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Apologies to all for doing a VfD on what should have been an easy redirect. I didn't bother to check for a properly named Armed conflict article, which probably would have clued me in to redirecting to war. Can someone fill me in on the details of archiving a VfD discussion? I want to put a link to these comments on the article's talk page. Feco 13:12, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Should be redirected to war, but you were right to bring it here. I agree with your points, btw. Meelar (talk) 02:24, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to War. Megan1967 06:16, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect -- to War. It'd make for a troublesome list that reads like a football fixture otherwise. - Longhair | Talk 06:24, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect (formerly Keep) It is difficult to imagine how a timeline of armed conflicts would not be a useful resource since timelines of wars long have been. At least I seem to recall it coming up rather often in school. And what with war being such a blurry concept these days shoving a list of fights with weapons under War risks arguments about the inclusion of cancer and drugs and the removal of things like Korea and Vietnam. (prak 06:37, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC))
  • Perhaps renaming it would be clearer. Something like Armed conflicts (list) or Armed conflicts (timeline) (prak 06:40, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC))
    • We already have many lists of wars and armed conflicts, including List of operations and projects (military and non-military), List of invasions, all of the articles at Category:List of wars, all of the articles at Category:Wars by region, and all of the articles at Category:Lists of battles. This article is a simple duplicate, and your proposed renaming, which doesn't follow the naming conventions for lists, doesn't fix that. Uncle G 13:27, 2005 Apr 27 (UTC)
      • I was wrong. Thank you for the correction. (prak 16:16, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC))
• Redirect as above. Radiant_* 09:34, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)
• armed conflict already redirects to war, and so in accord with the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals) it seems wise to redirect armed conflicts to war, too. Uncle G 13:27, 2005 Apr 27 (UTC)
• Redirect as above. Should have been done automatically, w/o VfD. Pavel Vozenilek 12:41, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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