Talk:Siege of Eion

Redirect proposal

I'm trying to improve the depth of coverage for the Greco-Persian wars across all articles, and get all of them up to at least Good Article status. However, this article (as with others) is problematic, for one main reason: the ancient sources don't have much to say about it (as evidenced by the stub nature of this article). The article can never be satisfactorily expanded, because there's nothing else to say, and no other details in the ancient sources.

Thus, I don't think it really needs a separate article.

I think that the events at Eion in 476 BC can be adequately covered at Wars of the Delian League#Siege of Eion, without needing a separate article. I suggest leaving this page as a redirect to the above article, and moving any content which is not already covered there, to Wars of the Delian League. The Greco-Persian Wars navigation box would still have "Eion" in it, but now directing to the appropriate subsection of the Wars of the Delian League article. This is the approach I have used for some other battles which are clearly not going to have a full article written about them.

Ultimately, if the consensus is that this deserves its own article, then I will not contest that. Having checked briefly, it appears that are probably not many editors with a vested interest in this article. No-one has made a significant contribution to this article since Nov 2008, and they are now banned. So, I will wait one week for any opinions, and then act as described above. MinisterForBadTimes (talk) 21:27, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

It's a good idea. These little stubs are not useful IMHO. I've seen editors create some ridiculous 'battle related' ones just to chalk up the numbers of articles they've created. I'm not saying that about the creator of this article, but it's true of at least one of the editors of it later. Dougweller (talk) 07:35, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Redirected as described! MinisterForBadTimes (talk) 20:22, 7 June 2009 (UTC)