Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2nd Battery "B" New Jersey Volunteer Light Artillery


 * 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   move to draft. The consensus here is basically delete, but there is also a suggestion that this might be part of a future New Jersey Volunteer Light Artillery article, so I'm going to be a little bold and move this to Draft:New Jersey Volunteer Light Artillery so it can be used as a starting point and preserve the history -- RoySmith (talk) 14:10, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

2nd Battery "B" New Jersey Volunteer Light Artillery

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Individual batteries from artillery units are not usually covered as they generally do not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines. This article is no exception. ceradon ( talk  •  contribs ) 04:40, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. lavender|(formerlyHMSSolent)|lambast 05:55, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. lavender|(formerlyHMSSolent)|lambast 05:55, 27 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. A single battery would have to do something really spectacular to merit a standalone article. This one didn't. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:21, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete not notable, per WP:GNG, ie "no significant coverage in multiple reliable sources". Regards, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 10:17, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:31, 1 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment: some artillery batteries are notable, IMO, due to the way in which they take on independent identities from parent organisations (e.g regiments etc.) in some armies (largely due to being re-allocated etc), which is not the case for other similar level military sub units (e.g. infantry companies etc. which don't in most cases have an identity outside of their battalion). In these cases, there is generally significant coverage of these batteries, which then supports writing an independent article. I'm not sure that this article demonstrates such coverage, though. I found it a little hard to identify what this battery's parent organisation was, but if one could be found there might be the potential for a merge or a redirect. (From List of New Jersey Civil War units, it appears that there were five batteries of New Jersey Volunteer Light Artillery, so perhaps a single article could cover all five?) Without that, though, delete is probably the only viable action. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 20:54, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I was going to create the New Jersey Volunteer Light Artillery article (as soon as I'm done with this beast). You can go ahead and create it though. --ceradon ( talk  •  contribs ) 00:54, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
 * G'day, thanks but I don't have plans to do this as it is not my area of expertise and I lack the required sources. I've written a few articles on Australian artillery units, but I couldn't write with any authority on ACW artillery units. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 01:40, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
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