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Delete Yes I think that policy says we should AFD this as it is clear that the speculation is about speculation "If a war were to happen (which it wont) this might happen". This is not sufficient for an article.
Slatersteven (
talk) 14:57, 31 August 2017 (UTC)reply
DeleteRedirect this (as originally to
Korean DMZ Conflict (1966–69)) and delete similar articles on speculated non-certain future conflicts. Fails
WP:BALL(1) and possibly (3). A war while possibly likely is definitely not certain and the date of said possible war is even less certain. Procedurally - I suggest moving this RfC to
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history (and discuss future possible conflicts in general, with the Korean peninsula provided as an example/test-case), and place this article in AfD - which I intend to doand restore the redirect in this article.
Icewhiz (
talk) 14:59, 31 August 2017 (UTC)reply
Moot
Not sure we need to do anything more then leave a message at Milhist.
Slatersteven (
talk) 15:05, 31 August 2017 (UTC)reply
I think it is a wider discussion - it really isn't specific to Korea. Should we create Chinese Invasion of Taiwan (speculated), War of the South China Sea (speculated), Shia-Sunni war of the 21st Century (speculated) (GCC vs. Iran)? The arguments for/against all of these (the more notable ones) are the same.
Icewhiz (
talk) 15:12, 31 August 2017 (UTC)reply
Ahh I see, yes I think an RFC on "speculated wars" is a good idea, but not this one war.
Slatersteven (
talk) 15:14, 31 August 2017 (UTC)reply
Do we not have
WP:GNG? The judgement on these future wars seems pretty straight forward, as any other article on Wikipedia.
Casprings (
talk) 15:24, 31 August 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep article and expand it. The speculation itself meets
Wikipedia:GNG. It has been ongoing since the end of the first Korean War. When such a possible event gets that much long term coverage from
WP:RS an article should not just be allowed, it should be encouraged as it clearly meets the core purpose of Wikipedia.
Casprings (
talk) 15:09, 31 August 2017 (UTC)reply
Well that would be a question for that pages talk page.
Slatersteven (
talk) 15:32, 31 August 2017 (UTC)reply
You could discuss this there, however reunification is a NK and SK policy goal, with actual government ministries, talks, etc. I don't see how that would get deleted - at most name changed (perhaps - a process tacked on - but I doubt even that) - as this is an ongoing attempted process (e.g. similar to
Israeli–Palestinian peace process, or other multi-year processes).
Icewhiz (
talk) 15:34, 31 August 2017 (UTC)reply
Redirect, yes, but to where?
Korean DMZ Conflict (1966–69) or
2017 North Korea crisis? The problem with using a time-bound article is that it is or will soon become obsolete. And then, when there's another "crisis" in Korea, this same issue will re-emerge. Perhaps it could be redirected to
Korean conflict, but that's not a perfect fit either...--
Jack Upland (
talk) 17:01, 31 August 2017 (UTC)reply
per
Korean DMZ Conflict (1966–1969) (where this was redirected previously before the usurpation) he Korean DMZ Conflict, also referred to as the Second Korean War by some,[2] was a series of low-level armed clashes between North Korean forces and the forces of South Korea and the United States, largely occurring between 1966 and 1969 at the Korean DMZ; - this was an actual conflict involving gunfire/etc - a few hundred dead on each side - a bit less than
War of Attrition...
Korean conflict is the first Korean war.
Icewhiz (
talk) 17:16, 31 August 2017 (UTC)reply
Nothing really is a perfect fit. But
Korean conflict has the advantage that it is not timebound. At the same time time we could remove
2017 North Korea crisis link from the Trump era section and merge
2017 North Korea crisis into the Trump era section.
Korean conflict is the closest we have to a political/economic/sociological/military overview of the whole 70 odd year conflict. Remember 1953-2017 is technically just a ceasefire.
Irondome (
talk) 17:18, 31 August 2017 (UTC)reply
Well actually this one
Korean War is/was, a merge to
Korean conflict (which discuses the whole history of the situation form the end of Ww2 to the present day) seems to fit this material, as pretty much this is all, part of the wider issue of the unending war.
Slatersteven (
talk) 17:20, 31 August 2017 (UTC)reply
Saying there might be a "Second Korean War" is naive. There have been lots of wars during the long
History of Korea. This basically "new" article should be reverted to its original purpose, which was a redirect to the mis-named series of 1966–1969 conflicts following the actual/modern-
Korean War. How future nK vs sK conflicts might play out is best set forth in
Korean conflict. –
S. Rich (
talk) 17:31, 1 September 2017 (UTC) To be clear, my !vote is merge to the original purpose – as a redirect. 18:18, 20 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete pure crystal-ball gazing. It seems that every time NK fires a missile or explodes a nuke someone feels the need to create a "what if" page about a second (or third) Korean War. Stick to blogs, we are supposed to be an encyclopedia.
Mztourist (
talk) 06:16, 5 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete There is not enough
WP:RS to meet the requirements for
WP:N. It does not make sense to redirect to another article, as
Jack Upland noted, it is a time-bound article.
LPW22 (
talk) 16:42, 11 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Moot !votes.
This isn't what RfC is for. This is what
WP:AFD is for. —
SMcCandlish ☺☏¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 01:38, 11 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Procedural keep. RfC is a wrong venue for this. Take it to
WP:AfD if you want to pursue deletion on
WP:N or
WP:NOT grounds. –
Finnusertop (
talk ⋅
contribs) 15:04, 13 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Noticed just now and amended my comment accordingly. –
Finnusertop (
talk ⋅
contribs) 15:04, 13 September 2017 (UTC)reply
This was a redirect to
Korean DMZ Conflict (1966–1969) for many years. It has been hijacked to create this crystal ball essay. The former redirect was correct (at least in my mind) - so AFDing isn't exactly the right venue. Note that the creator of the essay is the one who jumped the gun, so to say, and ran the RFC - and has been since been claiming that the RFC should run its course prior to restoring the redirect.
Icewhiz (
talk) 15:17, 13 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Comments from nominator:Throughout the discussion, a host of merge! votes, concerned with a different article, is observed.It may be of kind attention to all the future participants and the closer, that this AfD does not concerns itself with the merge of any other topic and such !votes may be avoided and/or discounted.
Merge. Technically, the "first" Korean War has not ended, there has only been an armistice. Any content not in the 2017 crisis article should go there, instead of full deletion.
331dot (
talk) 13:10, 14 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete - If someone wants to merge the content into another article that's fine by me, but this is random speculation, not actual verifiable events.
Shelbystripes (
talk) 01:33, 16 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete - Pure
WP:BALL. Every time the North Koreans launch a missile, the media speculates about an impending war. Wikipedia, however,
is not a newspaper, and its editors are supposed to think differently than a media journalist, according to
WP:RECENTISM. When we fail to do that, essays founded on fabrication can flourish.
TheGracefulSlick (
talk) 02:39, 16 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete and Merge ONLY: please do not redirect it to the Wikipedia article as the first Korean war is still not finished, because of Korean Armistice Agreement 1953, the second war could not be happened, and it is Pure
WP:BALL and the current subject would mislead public. The subject leads a speculation for the another speculation. It not enough
WP:RS, it would also fall in to the area:
Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. To respect the contributions of the content, please relocate the current content to the draft space, the some of the contents and contributions would be entirely beneficial to merge
2017 North Korea crisis, after creating the subsection
military option.
Goodtiming8871 (
talk) 03:04, 21 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete and the rest per Irondome. The US is still at war with PROK so we can't have a second…oh I'm just regurgitating Goodtiming.
L3X1(distænt write) 00:11, 22 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete for all the reasons listed above and for the all the reasons discussed at the page.--
Jack Upland (
talk) 08:12, 22 September 2017 (UTC)reply
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