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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/378 Mannock Squadron

:The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Jayjg (talk) 04:39, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

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Individual cadet units are not considered notable Buckshot06 (talk) 07:08, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

  • delete. I prodded this last week, and the author removed it yesterday, adding the unreferenced claim that it's the only unit to be named after a person, Edward Mannock. It seems to me that this would be better mentioned inhis article, than this one, which is about an otherwise unremarkable unit, with nothing else to distinguish it from any other Air Training Corps squadron. David Underdown (talk) 10:29, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
  • Delete: I don't believe that this meets WP:GNG. Also, I believe there has been precedent regarding ATC squadrons before (but can't for the life of me remember the article in question, unfortunately, for which I apologise). The information about the squadron being the only one to be named after a person is certainly an interesting fact, and assuming it can be sourced, I have no dramas with it being added to the ATC article itself. I don't believe it is enough to make the unit itself notable, however. — AustralianRupert (talk) 11:02, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
  • Delete: Cadet units are not normally notable and I dont see anything different about this one. MilborneOne (talk) 12:14, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
  • Merge/redirect to List of Air Training Corps squadrons. The Mannock connection can be sourced [http://www.northantset.co.uk/wellingborough/Sombre-respect-for-fallen-heroes.4346445.jp here]. Bridgeplayer (talk) 20:58, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
  • Delete per MilborneOne - there's a long standing convention that individual cadet units are not normally notable in isolation, and this doesn't appear to be one of the exceptions to the rule. Nick-D (talk) 10:44, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
  • Delete and do not redirect. Looking at Pages that link to "List of Air Training Corps squadrons", we don't normally make such links. DGG ( talk ) 04:27, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

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