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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 00:32, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of wars involving North Korea (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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I absolutely think that a page about wars involving Korea should exist. However, I don't believe a separate page is necessary. All wars involving pre-1945 Korea as well as North and South Korea are already included on List of wars involving Korea. I believe that is sufficient. This also has precedent e.g. East and West Germany don't have separate pages for their wars, and neither do North and South Vietnam or North and South Yemen.

I also find it a bit odd to include wars involving historical states on the territory of current-day North Korea here, as North Korea isn't a direct successor those states - both North and South Korea succeed the Korean Empire and Korea as a territory under Japanese occupation. When excluding those pre-modern wars, the list shrinks down quite a lot, making this page an unnecessary fork. Cortador (talk) 14:57, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Adding to this: depending on the outcome of this AfD, I'll nominate List of wars involving South Korea as well. However, this the arguments for and against that will pretty much be the same as the ones here, I didn't want to split the debate, and just nominated this page for now. Cortador (talk) 14:58, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2024 October 20. —^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 15:23, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Military, Lists, and North Korea. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 15:42, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

North Korea is still a country, however. I propose that we kept this article strictly North Korea (and the South Korea one, strictly South Korea). For the Korea one, we can skip the duplicates and instead link to these separate articles. If Korea is ever reunified, I suppose we could consider a merge, but that's for another day :) Mikrobølgeovn (talk) 02:19, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:00, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Originally I voted keep because there's value in listing the wars fought specifically by post-1948 North Korea but I recently discovered that it's already listed at List of wars involving Korea under the North Korea section. No need for a separate article currently (and List of wars involving Korea is also currently more complete and detailed, so no need for a merge either). MolecularPilot 06:51, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. This is an obvious content fork of page List of wars involving Korea. In addition, two first tables on this page are not about North Korea, the modern-day state. My very best wishes (talk) 03:41, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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