Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atomic bombings of Japan as a form of state terrorism (3rd nomination)
It's important to get the history behind this article right and as someone who knows about that and a bit about this topic I'll go into a little detail here. The content was culled from one section of the article Allegations of state terrorism by the United States (not, as several suggest above, from Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atomic_bombings_of_Japan_as_a_form_of_state_terrorism&diff=prev&oldid=214505149 dumped here because of wild disputes over at the "Allegations" article. It should have stayed there to begin with, and a vastly slimmed down version of this current article should be merged back to Allegations of state terrorism by the United States. One thing I cannot stress enough: Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is ''not'' the place to house some version of this content. It could probably be mentioned there briefly, but to have any lengthy discussion of the notion that the atomic bombing of Japan was state terrorism in the main "Debate" article causes major, major |undue weight problems. There are huge academic and popular debates about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, obviously, but only a tiny amount of the discussion revolves around the notion of state terrorism. It is discussed in those terms, most definitely, but almost exclusively in literature that deals more generally with the topic of state terrorism, particularly as supposedly committed by the United States. Thus Allegations of state terrorism by the United States is the perfect place for this content, probably in the form of three or four paragraphs in Allegations_of_state_terrorism_by_the_United_States#Atomic_bombings_of_Japan.2C_1945|this section (which, again, was how it started in the first place). The content was stable there for quite awhile and this article was only created in an ultimately ill-advised effort to end a really annoying content dispute. Let's redirect this title to the previously linked section and thus take things back to the status quo ante circa May 2008
— User:Bigtimepeace, 10:50, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:UNDUE (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view)