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[edit] Note on the name
A blub at the begining should make clear that the name Queen Anne's War is only used in American (US) historiography. It has different names in English Canada, French Canada, the UK, and France. Kevlar67 20:55, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
- Support. No reason for a second article on the same war. Tempshill 20:13, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
- Against. While technically Queen Anne's War and the War of the Spanish Succession are the same war, they are not the same conflict. "Queen Anne's War" refers to the frontier battles between English colonists, troops, and Native American allies and French troops and their Native American allies. "The War of the Spanish Succession" refers to the battles in Europe between the British and their allies and the French and their allies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.4.232.241 (talk) 04:01, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
- Against. They are the same war, but it is useful to have a separate article concerning operations in North America during this war. Queen Anne's War is a convenient title for North American operations since that is what the war is called in the United States. BradMajors 16:28, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
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- Merge. You can accomplish the same exact task within a subsection of "The War of the Spanish Succession". If "Queen Anne's War" gets too long, then an article split would be in order. However, given the material currently, that split is not necessary. KyuuA4 06:51, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
- Support merge. I agree with KyuuA above. This article is short and currently not well supported by references, and I feel it would benefit from being merged with War of the Spanish Succession. If it grows to an appreciable length, it can be split off again. However, since War of the Spanish Succession is a featured article, I'm going to bring it up on that talk page and try to get some more opinions and help before I perform a merge. -FrankTobia (talk) 14:30, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
- Can you please elaborate when you say this content would "benefit". You should also tag the War of the Spanish Succession article with the {mergefrom} tag. BradMajors (talk) 21:39, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
- I say "benefit" because the War of the Spanish Succession article is well-sourced, while this article appears to have no sources, so overlapping of sources would be one benefit. Another is that the subject of this article is one theatre of the war of spanish succession, and so 1) this article lacks an important context, and 2) the War of the Spanish Succession article isn't broad enough to include much on the north american theatre. Additionally I feel this subject would be better looked after if it was within a now-featured article, rather than its own short one. Size concerns shouldn't crop up for some time. Lastly, I didn't want to clutter the War of the Spanish Succession with a {mergefrom} tag since it was unclear whether this reflected consensus among that article's editors. I left a message on the talk page, and since I haven't gotten much response I'll probably revisit the issue soon. -FrankTobia (talk) 00:30, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
- The sources for the War of the Spanish Succession can not be the same sources as those used for Queen Anne's War. New sources would have to be added to the Spanish Succession article that cover Queen Anne's War. For example, I have a book on my desk on the War of the Austrian Succession it has at total of three pages on Northern American operations. Because of the relative unimportance of North American operations the Spanish Succession article should have a similar weighting for Northern American operations of <2%. You mention that the Spanish Succession article is a FA, but the affect of merging the Queen Anne's War article would make the Spanish Succession article a B class article.BradMajors (talk) 16:26, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
