Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/September 17, 1939

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 of the debate was DELETE. -Doc ^ask? 19:32, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] September 17, 1939

General wiki policy is not to have pages for specific dates before January 2003 unless it's really called for. (Like September 11, 2001). --Bachrach44 18:27, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as per above Betacommand 19:04, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
• Comment — There are dozens of such articles in Category:Days in 2003, ... Category:Days in 2006. Are you proposing to delete them all? — RJH 19:08, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

• comment whoops - I meant to insert the clause before January 2003 but forgot. It has been corrected. --Bachrach44 19:25, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Not to mention, that sentence could have easily been inserted into World War Two or Invasion of Poland.

• comment already covered in Polish September Campaign and September 17. --Bachrach44 20:54, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Probably would not be included in a standard print encyclopedia. Kr0nnik 20:56, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Unless someone can tell me why pages in 2003 and after are allowed to be kept. Also, Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia. BlueGoose 21:56, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Simply because from 2003 onwards individual day articles have been written and transcribed into the month articles. Deleting all of them would effectively wipe all the Month-specofoc articles. No such system exists prior to 2003. Grutness...wha? 00:53, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
    • It looks as if some pages are linked in and some pages are just stand alone text (December 2, 2003 for example). I also see that January 12, 2006 is up for deletion. Frankly, I think this whole thing a big mess and this whole issue needs to be dealt with through some sort of consensus before we delete some articles and not others. BlueGoose 02:13, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete we can't have every date that ever existed in here, I agree with Bachrach44 that general policy means no dates before Jan of 2003. Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 02:28, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- ReyBrujo 03:57, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep on pricinple -- if dailies are OK for 2003-> why not for pre-2003? And if we gotta start somewhere, if something happened on this date that is notable why not -- WP is not paper. As it grows we can find these articles to grow and be compiled into months, years, etc. kind of like yearbooks attached to paper encyclopedias. Moreover, if we keep some dates and not others, are we making a notability determination of the date or the events that happened on it: let's see about these dates: June 6, 1944, September 11, 2001, December 7, 1941, September 1, 1939, and August 6, 1945 exist and May 8, 1945, November 22, 1963, July 20, 1969, April 15, 1912, August 9, 1974, April 15, 1865, and July 4, 1776 don't. Go figure. Carlossuarez46 19:08, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Comment I see your point on that, Carlos, except that each of the listed days that you cited were redirects to other articles concerning a specific event on that day. September 17, 1939 isn't. And the sentence in the article is already covered in Invasion of Poland which is a redirect destination for September 1, 1939 (Sept. 1's article is for a poem by WH Auden, whoops ^_^*). Pat Payne 14:54, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Stifle (talk) 12:55, 5 May 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.