Talk:Grand strategy wargame

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Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on 27 November 2007. The result of the discussion was Keep.

[edit] Merge proposal

While a distinct subject, there really isn't a whole lot of notable information written about it. I'd like to merge this article into wargame and wargame (video games). Really, this is a simple distinction that warrants a couple of sentences, not a whole article. Randomran (talk) 16:41, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

I say go for it. The genre articles are growing to ridiculous proportions. Just last week we had to delete "Cartoon Shooter" or something like that. What's next? "Bear and bird action platformers with shiny golden puzzle thingys"? .:Alex:. 15:17, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

The article could certainly use improvement and I will start doing so. I will start by removing any emphasis on videogaming which is inappropriate since the concept is not especially related to a particular medium. For example, last night, I was playing Imperial (board game) which is a fine specimen. When this is done, the merge proposal will be redundant. I may then go on to improve other wargame articles in a complementary way - tactical, operational, etc.Colonel Warden (talk) 15:50, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I took the liberty of merging this article to wargaming, which actually already had the majority of the information in this article. There was further discussion and consensus at the video games wikiproject. If the subsection in the wargaming article becomes sufficiently large, I would support a split. But until then, the concept is simple enough to be summed up in the paragraph at the main article. Randomran (talk) 03:45, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

  • This topic is more a matter of wargaming and studies of international conflict than of videogaming. The opinions of a small number of videogamers does not form an adequate quorum to extinguish this article. I shall continue to develop it and have started by removing the extraneous videogames clutter. Colonel Warden (talk) 08:29, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
The goal of the merge isn't to "extinguish" information but improve organization and reduce clutter. There is already a section on grand strategy wargames at the wargaming article. This is in addition to a lot of generally relevant information about wargames. But if you insist on splitting this from the main article, I would encourage you to reference and expand the article so that it says something substantially different from the main wargaming article. In the meantime, I'll take the liberty helping to reduce the video game clutter. Randomran (talk) 13:52, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sources

Let's have a look: Find sources: Grand strategy wargame — news, books, scholar Colonel Warden (talk) 16:04, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

The search needs refining. Colonel Warden (talk) 16:07, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

This topic was already discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grand strategy game (also intitiated by Randomran). SharkD (talk) 22:19, 9 June 2008 (UTC)