an encyclopaedia is populated by encyclopaedic content articles that is articles about subjects which describe in this case a global concepts such as paramilitary forces b generic concepts such as the various types of paramilitary forces and c specific concepts such as the national forms of paramilitary forces that in the united kingdom were called militia narodnoe opolcheniye does not fall into any of these categories because it is not a paramilitary organisation formed and maintained by the state in times of peace for service in war in russia and the soviet union it was only formed by the population in times of war user buckshot fails to comprehend this in his attempt to pigeon hole this article into his frame of understanding and in his dogged attempt to fit everything in the world covered by wikipedia into the english language equivalents regardless of actual loss of meaning context or sourced support for such attempts the suggestion to merge is therefore not even something that needs to be considered within the framework of wikipedia objectives never mind the guidelines for merging articles