Talk:Unknown Soldier Memorial (Egypt)

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Why is the principal picture of the Unknown Soldier Memorial in sideways? Otherwise, it is an excellent picture. I don't know how to correct this, but some Wikipedia editor must know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.239.152.174 (talk) 19:12, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Removing coat-rack material

This article is about one single notable memorial in Cairo. Anything that is not in Cairo, or is not the one being discussed, needs to be removed. The fact that a war memorial exists somewhere is not notable. TooManyFingers (talk) 02:56, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

If I have misunderstood, and this article is intended to be a list of many or all of Egypt's war memorials, then the article's title should be changed to reflect that - but again I seriously question whether every war memorial in every country is actually notable to a worldwide audience. TooManyFingers (talk) 14:18, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

@TooManyFingers: It should be changed to List of Unknown Soldier Memorials in Egypt. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 14:58, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

There's this article as well: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ... --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 15:01, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

In that case, it's a stunningly incomplete list. There must be many thousands of war memorials around the world. IMO it's ridiculous to assume that they are all worth listing, because so many of them are non-notable. So I don't really support the title change you proposed - I think the majority of them should be removed from Wikipedia. TooManyFingers (talk) 20:19, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

I don't see anything wrong with this article as is. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 13:26, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Egypt has been in a lot of wars. Just last month about 15 Egyptian soldiers were killed. Since just a few years back, 3700 Egyptian soldiers have been killed and about 10,000 injured Egyptian soldiers. These are approximate recent numbers in one of Egypt's wars (against ISIS and insurgents).. I don't think we should be eliminating any information in this article. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 00:44, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

The fact that countries have wars, even very recent wars, even wars in which many people died, has nothing to do with whether certain monuments belong in the encyclopedia. There are millions of monuments around the world, but not many monuments belong in the encyclopedia. And trying to make Wikipedia itself serve as a war memorial is a mistake. Most soldiers are not heroes. If an individual is a hero, create a page about that person. If a monument is a notable piece of art, so that people who didn't know about the war are still travelling to see the monument, create a new article about it. TooManyFingers (talk) 18:37, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

I've removed the sections of the article that were not about the Cairo memorial built in the 1970s. Wikipedia pages are not available to act as memorials in themselves, and they are also not available for attaching lists of related but non-notable material. Please don't restore any of the material to this article; if any of the other memorials is also world-famous, then please create a new article for it, with no lists of "other memorials" anywhere. TooManyFingers (talk) 18:42, 30 June 2022 (UTC)