Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Easy Company (506 PIR) veterans

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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 03:25, 17 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of Easy Company (506 PIR) veterans

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Considerations:

It is a list that will eventually have no members. In spite of its title, it Is a list of Easy Company survivors and gets shorter every year. The list apparently started as an effort to include everyone but its focus shifted after its creation; many member of the unit had no notoriety.
None of the soldiers who appear now or have ever appeared on the list meet the standards in WP:SOLDIER.
The existence of the list is primarily based on the airing of the cable series Band of Brothers (miniseries).

--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 20:53, 9 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This deletion appears to have not been processed correctly and is unlikely to attract sufficient notice until fixed (which I haven't worked out how to do). DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 09:31, 10 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Yeah, I followed the instgructions and the nomination appears incorrectly in the log, although it appears correctly in the edit window. I'm hoping someone will come along who knows how to fix it.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 14:00, 10 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Note You were missing the template from step 2 {{subst:afd2 | pg=PageName | cat=Category | text=Why the page should be deleted}} ~~~~ I have added for you, and it appears that is the only problem with this listing. Monty ₈₄₅ 04:16, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:26, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:26, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:26, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete no reason why this unit should be singled out to list survivors none of which appear to be particularly notable in wikipedia terms. MilborneOne (talk) 17:29, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This list includes non-notable veterans about whom there are sources verifying they had served in this company. They would not be included in the list at 506th Infantry Regiment (United States) which are the notable Soldiers, only. I'm ok with that. Chris Troutman (talk) 17:42, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- Too specific to be encyclopedic. However it is perhaps surprising that 5 people from one company should be WP-notable. The objection about living veterans is invalid: people do not cease to be veterans by ceasing to be living veterans. Peterkingiron (talk) 14:24, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Why does this list only contain living veterans, anyway? I like the format of the list, and given the large number of individuals at E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States)#Personnel with pages: why not spin off that list to its own article; why not let the list have be in the format of a sortable table; and if the list has its own article, would List of Easy Company (506 PIR) veterans be the appropriate name for the article? My !vote would be that there probably doesn't need to be a list of notable and non-notable veterans of a famous group of this size (living only or living and non-living). On the other hand, the encyclopedia probably would be improved by an article listing notable members of the company in the format of a sortable table with the sort of information in this list, and I am in favor of that (and would support merging/renaming this list to that). Smmurphy^(Talk) 20:44, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Is was discussed at Talk:E_Company,_506th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)#Names_of_all_soldiers--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 21:04, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but I don't think I said anything about listing non-notable individuals. Smmurphy^(Talk) 22:30, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Point well taken. The problem is that none of the members of Easy are/were notable. The closest is Colonel Robert Sink because he later became a general officer.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 22:38, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I guess I misunderstood, is this a discussion of all the individuals at E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States)#Personnel, then? Smmurphy^(Talk) 23:42, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No, this RfD is for the list. I have nominated an individual's page for deletion separately, however.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 01:49, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know about your nomination of Albert Mampre, I have !voted there. Here, I still don't quite understand this list and agree with you that a list of living vets doesn't really make sense, although I still think that a list of all notable vets might. Smmurphy^(Talk) 12:27, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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