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Requested move 30 November 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved.(non-admin closure) Kiwiz1338 (talk) 04:17, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

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Bombing of Dresden in World War II → Bombing of Dresden – Unnecessary disambiguation; proposed move target already redirects here. As TheForgottenKing earlier noted, comparable articles like Bombing of Tokyo and Attack on Pearl Harbor lack the qualifier. rblv (talk) 03:27, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

I still think this is the correct move. If there had been another major bombing of Dresden it might be necessary, but from what I can tell no such event exists. For anyone joining the conversation just now, my previous comment 9 months ago was as follows:

I think this article should just be titled Bombing of Dresden". Normally, battles and such are not titled <event> in <war>, but just <event>, especially if there's only one event. Other examples: Bombing of Tokyo, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Battle of Iwo Jima, etc. None of these are titled "<event> in World War II". Just a thought.

TheForgottenKing (talk) 04:08, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

I concur on this - Dresden hasn't been bombed before or since this event, so the "in World War II" disambiguation is not needed. Harryhenry1 (talk) 07:22, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Agree with the above comments. 296cherry (talk) 19:45, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

• Support. In the end 2010 RM it was stated that there were some other bombings in the 18th century. This is clearly the primary topic though, and an overdue move.  — Amakuru (talk) 19:59, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

  I don't think it works that way for descriptive titles. Srnec (talk) 21:04, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

• The phrase "bombardment of Dresden" is ambiguous. See siege of Dresden (1760) and possibly others. Insofar as "bombing of [city]" tends today to denote aerial bombardment, the proposal is not unreasonable. But it should be clear that this is not precedent for stripping "in World War II" from article titles just because we have no other one at the bare title. Srnec (talk) 21:04, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
• Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:42, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Support. As there are no other major bombings of Dresden, the "World War II" in the title is unnecessary. DSOFOreverTYU ~ talk ~ Eurovision 16:32, 5 December 2023 (UTC)