Talk:American entry into World War I
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Proposed deletion[[edit source]]
Eh, I think if an event is notable enough for Wikipedia, it being referenced in the DWU should generally warrant a page on the subject. Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 23:16, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- I don't know, I think Wikipedia's page for it is simply "Oh, this page is too big, let's cut some of it off to over here where we can cover it in more detail." Had we a lot more detail on the thing, and it were to be revealed that in the DWU it were actually orchestrated by aliens or something, and there were a great big Short Trips story about it, then yes, having a page on it would be fine, but as it is, there is absolutely nothing to be gained by having this on its own page rather than simply as a subset of World War I. It's like, if we have a hypothetical page for [[The Doctor's marriage to Bob Marley]], then surely it seems somewhat overkill to have a page on [[The Doctor and Bob Marley's wedding vows]], and [[The Doctor and Bob Marley's exchange of the rings]] and all, no? T:EVIL TWIN. We're not Wikipedia. And usually that means that we can cover more than Wikipedia does, but here it means that we not need pages on everything that Wikipedia does. Aquanafrahudy 📢 🖊️ 23:27, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- Interesting case. I'm not sure that we have strong standards for event pages that would give a clear answer to this one? Obviously if this was just a noun Talk:Howling Halls/Archive 1 applies, but it's not, it's a description of an IU event, which is a vaguer sort of thing and hasn't been constructed with as much precedent imo. The reasoning at Talk:Thirteenth Doctor's forced regeneration doesn't seem to be applicable here. And certainly I think "wikipedia has a page on it" is a non starter. But if we transpose General Noun Rules to Event Rules, it should stay. I'm just not sure that we're doing that? Lean delete, but if more stories are found / written that focus on the actual entrance of the US into WWII: Pearl Harbor, Ni'ihau incident, Charles Lindbergh and associated controversies, interactions with U-boats, maybe even Lend Lease + sanctions on Japan. Flesh it out into a meaningful article under the reasoning in Talk:TDfr, and I think it's useful, as distinct from World War II. Najawin ☎ 21:28, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
