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The result was merge to Sudan People's Liberation Army. Jenks24 (talk) 17:26, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Merge into Sudan People's Liberation Army. This article emerged out of a misreading of a formulation in the South Sudanese draft constitution, "The Sudan People’s Liberation Army shall be transformed into the South Sudan Armed Forces...". Now no such transformation has taken place, so this article relates to a hypothetical entity. There are no real moves on the ground in South Sudan to transform the SPLA to any new body and SPLA remains the national armed forces of South Sudan. Having an article on the SSAF is, considering that there are no concrete plans beyond the vague draft constitution wording, WP:CBALL. The wording in the constitution about "SSAF" was probably just lip-service to donor countries uncomfortable with supporting a partisan ex-guerrilla entity. Soman (talk) 10:57, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:57, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:57, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge & Redirect, if no such merger has yet occurred it appears that the article under discussion may fall under WP:TOOSOON. When the merge does happen, the article should be renamed as appropriate.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 19:48, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and redirect per nom. When there is authoritative evidence that the name change has occurred, we can move the article. Buckshot06 (talk) 14:39, 31 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.