Talk:Civilian casualties during Operation Allied Force

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[edit] POV Title

As it stands, the title of this article is very biased. It seems to imply that the civilian deaths were intentionally caused by the US military, which is an assertion not backed up by the sources. I would suggest changing to title to "Civilian casualties during Operation Allied Force." Also, i'm not sure why each incident needs its own article, as they could all be covered well within this main article. Dchall1 07:11, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

OK for the move, for the articles, I'm going to expand them so merge would make this page enormous --TheFEARgod (Ч) 13:03, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Second the need for a move on this article. I'm severely tempted to slap a {{POV}} tag on it. It needs a neutral title. Resolute 04:46, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

I would question the need for most of these daughter articles. The Chinese embassy bombing seemed to get a lot of independent media coverage, but are any of these notable outside of the fact that they were one instance of civilian casualties inflicted during Operation Allied Force? Savidan 18:10, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

at the time of the events, those events got a lot of media attention (and wikipedia is not western media-only) --TheFEARgod (Ч) 00:10, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merger Proposal

I've tagged four of the smaller articles for merger into this article. None of them is longer than four paragraphs, and would be better covered within this article. Dchall1 02:04, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose - they are all separate events. Avala 11:19, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose - No proper rationale provided. Subjects are important enough to deserve an article in their own right. --Asterion^talk 22:57, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose - like Asterion --TheFEARgod (Ч) 10:44, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose - there is absolutely no reason for merge. The articles are most likely become much more detailed than sections should be. Nikola 13:28, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

a bit of time passed since the proposal.. I'm closing the merging proposal as oppose prevailed. --TheFEARgod (Ч) 20:35, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Incomplete

The article is incomplete. There are a lot of more incidents.

The 1999 NATO bombing of Novi Sad article could also be included into this corpus (seems separated from the others). --PaxEquilibrium (talk) 18:38, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

feel free to add and source everything you want.--TheFEARgod (Ч) 17:37, 2 April 2008 (UTC)