Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/French military victories (short list)

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 06:33, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

French military victories (short list)[edit]

The article is superfluous as there is already a very extensive and neutral List of French wars and battles. This article also appears to be a vanity article. I have contacted its creator and warned him or her to make changes to the article, specifically with the many incorrect historical statements, but there has been no reply, so I finally decided to take it here. Additionally, there is a conceptual problem with defining what a "short" list for French military victories, of which there are a ridiculous amount, would look like. UberCryxic 03:16, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete- why do we need a "short list"? How could it be maintained? :) Dlohcierekim 04:13, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. No list could be complete without the French victory over the United States in 2006 anyway. -AED 04:50, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, unnecessary list with no mergeable content. Military history of France is fine as it is. --Core des at talk. ^_^ 06:35, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This looks like a soapbox article, intended to counter the way some Merkins like to bash France every time it disagrees with the USA. As you know, the USA is free, democratic, and generally the goodies by default, so if France wants the USA to stop waging unilateral wars against a hazily-defined enemy called "terror" or "evil" and arresting innocent civilians without charging them for anything, and breaking international treaties, then France must be an evil communist dictature. This article is a response to that way of thinking, but as such it violates WP:NPOV. Military history of France is good enough. JIP | Talk 07:59, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per JIP. This reminds me of the "french military victories" google bombing by albinoblacksheep.com. Viridae ^Talk 08:03, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as an oh-so-funny joke article, per Viridae. The pun in the name is enough to demonstrate that this just isn't worthy of inclusion. RandyWang (^raves/_{review me!}) 08:43, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Note that the article was originally created as List of French military victories. Uncle G 09:27, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, superfluous --Guinnog 09:49, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I can think of more than two score victories that are not listed here. Indeed I would hazard to guess that the French have more military victories to their name than the US. Thus if we keep this we must have a US Military Victories (Even Shorter List) article. And I'm kind of sure we dont want to go there!!! Marcus22 13:01, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Indeed I would hazard to guess that the French have more military victories to their name than the US." Easily. It's not even a contest, which is partly why this article is so silly. There are just too many victories to list, and no one would know when it is appropriate to stop or keep digging the books for some obscure battle the French fought centuries ago.UberCryxic 15:58, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete for all the reasons mentioned above. The headline at least, is a bad attempt of humour, and the article is unnecessary. --Kristjan Wager 18:05, 4 August 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.