Deletion of Punitive expedition

Comment: The nominator is correct: such articles are discouraged by . All that may be said is that a "punitive expedition" is a military venture undertaken primarily to punish an adversary. That certainly sounds to me like a dictionary definition. Moreover none of the notable "punitive expeditions" have citations to |reliable sources. I would suggest that military history enthusiasts turn to a dictionary rather than Wikipedia when confronted with a fifty cent word like "punitive
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (WP:NOTADICTIONARY||WP:RS)