Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of US and Chinese Military Armed Forces

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The result was delete‎. I see a consensus to Delete this article. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:24, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comparison of US and Chinese Military Armed Forces[edit]

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Seems wholly synthetic and redundant as far as lists go. Remsense诉 00:04, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Remsense诉 00:04, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists, China, and United States of America. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:18, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: I've found several sources treating this topic in a direct non-synthesized manner. Was a WP:BEFORE search even conducted? Left guide (talk) 01:41, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Cortador rephrased my thoughts better. Remsense诉 17:30, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Then would keeping and moving it to China-United States military rivalry be a workable solution? WP:AFDISNOTCLEANUP, and if re-titling the article would align its scope more closely with the available sourcing, that would be a good thing. Left guide (talk) 23:58, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My concern isn't the article title, it is whether or not a table in this nature is encyclopedic. A "for x of State A, see y of State B" so to speak. I would actually very much read an article called China-United States military rivalry if it demonstrated just that in a text form, covering what was said by secondary sources, and a timeline. But that isn't what this article purports to be. microbiologyMarcus ^{[petri dish·growths]} 00:21, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. It's probably worthwhile to have an article called China-United States military rivalry, or an article discussing a hypothetical future armed conflict between the two. We don't need a table comparing what exact names their defence ministries have. Cortador (talk) 09:57, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. This is a weird mixture of factoids. How is it a comparison to list wars they were involved in? Clarityfiend (talk) 23:13, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Completely pointless. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:45, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: my concern with this isn't that it's been covered before by external sources, as given in the listed sources above by Left guide—these are both global superpowers with similar but different structures, of course there will be secondary sources comparing them—my concern is instead this is unencyclopedic and the problem with a lot of synthesized WP:NLIST concerns is "where to draw the line? and I don't think this to be very encyclopedic. microbiologyMarcus ^{[petri dish·growths]} 00:18, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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