Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Years' War

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The result was keep. Also rename to List of wars named for their duration. Black Kite (talk) 13:16, 26 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Years' War[edit]

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This is a rather peculiar disambiguation to me. As a disambiguation page, this information doesn't make sense. There aren't any wars called "Years' War", so there's no need to disambiguate in this fashion (WP:PTM may apply here). However, could we make use of it somehow? I thought about turning it into a list, titled something like List of wars named after their duration, but I'm not sure if such a list is notable. Thoughts? -- Tavix ^(talk) 17:11, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. -- Tavix ^(talk) 17:12, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

delete This is more of a "list of wars named according to duration", but I don't see that collecting such a list is knowledge, as opposed to trivia. Seyasirt (talk) 17:19, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's better grammar than my suggestion. If the result is "listify", this is the name I would support. -- Tavix ^(talk) 18:02, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete for a hundred years. It's not a proper dab page, just a mildly interesting bit of trivia. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:17, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as List of wars named for their duration or similar (tidied up, annotated, indicating participants each time, etc), and include the Six-Day war (currently a "See also") etc too - it's trivia, but mildly encyclopedic. Just not a dab page. PamD 11:55, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:58, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:58, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and rename per User:PamD. Not a disambiguation page as we define them, but still has some navigational use, as enough wars are referred to by their lengths, either as their usual names or recognised alternative ones, for some confusion to be possible (particularly when, as in one or two of the cases listed, there is some dispute about their exact lengths). PWilkinson (talk) 13:53, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep buit renamed. This is a potentially useful dab-page. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:30, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I'm not convinced by the idea of turning it into a list as I don't think it would be a useful list, but it certanily isn't a valid dab, all partial matches. Boleyn (talk) 08:20, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. A clearly made-up term for a group of wars that don't need a disambiguation page or list. -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:03, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Rename to List of wars named for their duration and remove the disambg tag. I can see people wanting to look this up. bd2412 T 12:37, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Rename to List of wars named for their duration per bd2412. North of Eden (talk) 23:16, 25 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep but rename - per BD2412 it seems a valid search term. Anotherclown (talk) 23:47, 25 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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