Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maskirovka
to Military deception.  is only overridden in two cases I know of: (CN) (as in concrete objects whose names have no widely accepted equivalents in English, where inventing a translation would be ), and the Wikipedia:Naming_conflict#Proper nouns|self-identification, e.g. of an ethnic or religious group. This is neither. However, deletion doesn't seem appropriate given that the term has 219 GBooks hits (unlike ''oborona'' or ''nastupleniye''), including some which discuss it non-trivially. http://books.google.com/books?q=maskirovka&hl=zh-TW&as_brr=0 I truly despise these "flavour words", like Chinese ''Guanxi'', Japanese ''Wa (Japanese)|Wa'', etc. that are used by authors to show off rather than inform; unfortunately, we're not the Academy of the English Language, and don't have the power to proscribe useless words. (Incidentally, see p32 of Chizum's ''Soviet Radioelectronic Combat'' for a justification by one author of why he uses the Russian word instead of an equivalent English word; IMO it's weak, but he published about the topic, and I haven't
— User:CaliforniaAliBaba, 05:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:UE||WP:NC||WP:OR (Wikipedia:Article titles)