Talk:Minor sabotage

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Did you know... that one of the most notable actions of minor sabotage in occupied Poland during World War II involved stealing a propaganda plaque from the monument of Mikołaj Kopernik?

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The article was created under small sabotage and moved to minor sabotage soon afterwards. Analysis of Google Books indicates that:

Thus small sabotage seems somewhat more popular. Comments? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:32, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid the name of this article needs to be more descriptive than this, per WP:TITLE. Something like Minor sabotage operations perhaps? [1] The new title would yeld 302 book results in total. I think the lead could use some work also. --Poeticbent talk 19:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Done. --Poeticbent talk 02:20, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to me that there are enough sources using only two words to justify leaving it at something sabotage. But which one? Personally I am partial to small over minor, but comments from native speakers would be welcome. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 04:52, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think Doopdoop was right. Probably the best title is "Minor sabotage." Nihil novi (talk) 06:10, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My English language version of the Warsaw Rising Museum guidebook uses the term "Small sabotage" and I concur - I don't like "minor" since it connotes "unimportant" whereas "small" just means "small scale".radek (talk) 06:34, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The translator of your guidebook probably used "small" because he didn't think of the word "minor." He simply used the expression that he was most familiar with. "Minor" is not synonymous with "unimportant." A minor scale is not an "unimportant" scale. Nihil novi (talk) 07:48, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

New title

Unfortunately the current title doesn't meet the criteria of WP:Title, which says: "Article titles should be recognizable to readers, unambiguous, and consistent with usage in reliable English-language sources." The current title, Minor sabotage, could refer to such actions in virtually any occupied country in virtually any war. That's hardly unambiguous.

An improved article title would be something like "Minor sabotage resistance in World War II Poland", to distinguish Polish actions from actions in other countries. Comments? HarryZilber (talk) 04:02, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am sure that WP:TITLE does not preclude the use of technical terms. Take a random advanced chemistry article about some compound we never heard of - it is also meaningless to 99.9% of readers, but allowed. I think we demonstrated above that the term is used and understood by the (sure, few) historians and military experts who study this field. If you could show this term is also used for sabotage outside Poland, we could think about globalizing the article, but for now I don't see any compelling reasons to do so. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 04:44, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

B-class

Confirming as B-class for WP:POLAND. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 04:49, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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