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. Yanksox 20:02, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Read expert discussion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of battles (alphabetical)

• Strong Delete as nom. --Ineffable3000 03:33, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Very useful as an index. I have used it several times to find the correct name of a battle. I see no value from deleting it. How else would I find the information if I don't know the name? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 04:32, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - Using a category or another list. The main objection to this list is that it doesn't matter what present-day nation the battle occured in. --Ineffable3000 04:42, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - Eh, so add in the ancient countries that make up the modern countries as subcategories. Adam Cuerden ^talk 04:51, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • What is the point of doing so? There already exist lists and categoories that categorize battles by Ancient country. This list is useless. Read the expert discussion. --Ineffable3000 05:03, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have read the jumble of information you have provided and it seems like your trying to clear out existing lists to make room for your new system of organizing the data. The beauty of lists is that there can be many, each organized in a different manner, and each useful. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 20:09, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per reasoning in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of battles (alphabetical). MER-C 07:23, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Useful and encyclopedic. Edison 00:45, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - It doesn't matter in what present-day country the battles occured. It matters more in which ancient country they occured and who fought in them. (and we are working on those lists). --Ineffable3000 02:25, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep. Please stop nominating every military-related list for deletion. --Hemlock Martinis 05:17, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep See WP:Deletion policy. A problem such as this is not a reason to delete an article, it's a reason to fix the article. This list is quite useful as it is already, and it can be made more useful. Deleting it would be like using execution to treat a fever. Such a mild problem not inherent to the article's content is not a reason to delete it. -NorsemanII 06:07, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• strong keep There is the whole Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history to watch these things. You think they are bunch of videogamers ? `'mikkanarxi 23:47, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Very strong keep - This is a very useful structured list. Of high quality too. Lists of events, like timelines, have a long-standing precedent on Wikipedia, and serve as aids for browsing the history-related articles on Wikipedia. The extensiveness of such lists is irrelevent as long as each item listed is notable, verifiable, etc. Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia. It exists precisely for presentation of topics such as those presented on this list, and it exists to present lists precisely like this one. Lists are an integrated component of Wikipedia. Removing this list would hamper access to these articles.  The Transhumanist   12:03, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

please keep This list is exactly what I was looking for, I can't understand why their would be a problem with another distinct list regardless of whether these Battles are on other lists, is there some lack of space on Wikipedia that I'm unaware of?.--74.120.33.251 18:36, 7 December 2006 (UTC) that was my "please keep" I forgot to log in.--Colin 8 18:38, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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.