Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/An explosion at the Naples post office kills 100 people. The explosion was caused by a Nazi time bomb placed there 6 days beforehand.

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was REDIRECT. Clearly, we do not have a consensus to delete. Since the new article is a copy-paste of this, I'm going to presume the debate applies to that article with its sensible title, and interpret the 'moves' as keeps (which is what they are, really). So the new article is KEPT, and this one obviously redirected there. -Splash^talk 19:57, 15 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

An explosion at the Naples post office kills 100 people. The explosion was caused by a Nazi time bomb placed there 6 days beforehand.

This is about a news event in October 1943. The event might be notable, but the article's title is beyond horrible. Delete or redirect to a better title. — JIP | Talk 11:11, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Move to
  1943 Naples post office bomb. There's no need to tell the entire story in the article's title. - Mgm|^(talk)
  11:39, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
• Move per mgm. As long as the story is true. Punkmorten 12:56, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Perhaps title of the page is highly unusual – deletion is a better option as no one is expected to search with such a “voluminous” title. Option for shorter redirects may be explored. --Bhadani 14:56, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • My above comments modified in view of rejoinder comments by User:Lomn on my talk page. --Bhadani 06:56, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Move as above...HoratioVitero 15:31, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak delete. What's the implication of this explosion? How did it affect the US's military involvement in Europe? How did it affect the Naples community? If these questions can't be answered, this is just a large explosion 62 years ago. --Plastictv 17:12, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • In an encyclopedia things don't get out of date in the way you imply. This is as notable as it would be if it had happened today. CalJW 18:42, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • i'm not implying that it shouldn't stay because it was out of date, but rather it could be just an isolated event with no impact. There are countless explosions in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Philippines etc. today that aren't wikiworthy. But the recent London bombing was. Do you see the difference? --Plastictv 01:54, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Move. Huh, why is this on AfD? Plastictv, read the article, of course notable (by the low standards of wikipedia.) Sdedeo 17:16, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Rename
  1943 Naples Post Office bombing. CalJW 18:42, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Move as above with preference to delete the pointless redirect. Christopher Parham (talk) 19:04, 2005 September 6 (UTC)
• Weak Delete Is this a notable event? Is every explosion in the war a notable event? Can this be verified?Roodog2k (talk) 20:13, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep but sourcify, get actual casualty numbers & tie in with Operation Overlord articles. JFW | T@lk 21:16, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy redirect. I've tagged
  1943 Naples Post Office bombing for cleanup, and wikified it a little bit. I wonder where this falls in the Allied invasion of Italy during World War II... Titoxd 23:47, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Weak Delete per Roodog2k. Or can this be moved to WikiOldsNews? -- Austrian 00:36, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, now there's other article for this. No need for a redirect. --Apostrophe 00:53, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Which "other article" are you talking about? --Plastictv 01:59, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • 1943 Naples Post Office bombing. Helps to kinda read the whole voting shebang. --Apostrophe 03:07, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply
      ]
• Redirect to
  _{tɔk tə mi} 05:25, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply
  ]
  • Hi Angr, long time no see. :) i agree with the cleanup, but i guess there's no need for the redirect. Nobody will key in such a monstrous title. --Plastictv 05:34, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete sad excuse of an article --Mecanismo 18:36, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, no redirect. Nothing links here--did the author really expect a reader to type this description into the "Search" box? Owen× ☎ 01:25, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• if there is really no existing article with which this can be merged, I vote to delete. From the title, looks like a newbie experiment which went terribly wrong. On second thought, move to
  1943 Naples post office bombing and add a "stub" flag.---CH (talk) 22:44, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply
  ]