Talk:List of paramilitary organizations

Suggest divide

I suggest we divide them into state and non-state paramilitaries and list them. Why not make this a disambiguation page.--NadirAli نادر علی (talk) 00:03, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

How would that help? --A D Monroe III^(talk) 20:44, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

To editor A D Monroe III: the list is excessive as it is. It would also help the readers distinguish as well as clear WP:CLUTTER--NadirAli نادر علی (talk) 20:46, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Excessive how? It's a list that's a couple pages long; if it were much shorter, we might not bother with a list at all. Splitting would hurt readers that didn't already know if what they want is state or non-state. A few orgs transitioned. (BTW, what WP:CLUTTER was applies here? It's a DAB, with nothing it points to seeming to support this.) I see zero benefit in splitting, and some down-side. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 00:35, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

To editor A D Monroe III: I don't mean splitting the article, I mean splitting the sections. I don't have too much time to discuss it right now, but I meant keeping the page intact while splitting state with non-state as well as giving defunct organizations their own separate section.--NadirAli نادر علی (talk) 00:46, 12 October 2017 (UTC)