Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrews County Veterans Memorial


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The result was keep. – bradv  🍁  05:21, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Andrews County Veterans Memorial

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With two permanent dead links nor replacements for them, I'm thinking unless replacement sources for the ones listed are found, this may need to be deleted. Pahiy (talk) 21:12, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 21:26, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 21:26, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 11:47, 5 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:MEMORIAL. I'm glad that every town, city, county, parish, and ward in the United States has a memorial to our armed forces. Bearian (talk) 16:12, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
 * WP:MEMORIAL proscribes memorial pages. This page is not in iteslf a memorial, but is a page about a memorial. Pontificalibus 14:20, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, RL0919 (talk) 22:59, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep Meets WP:GNG. Note: I replaced the references.Pontificalibus 14:20, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. As pointed out, wp:MEMORIAL does not apply at all, this is not like a glorified obituary of a person, it is about a monument which is itself apparently a wp:ITSAPUBLICATTRACTION (please see that awesome, well-written essay!). The Texas Historical Commission includes it in the Pecos Trail, per this source already in the article.  I haven't compared original article to version after User:Pontificalibus's changes, but at least now it is pretty obviously notable.  Meets wp:GNG.  Also by the way the article is a little bit confusing for mentioning three county persons covered in it, as if only three persons are covered, but it is big block after big block of names apparently.  It can/should be included in more categories, too, such as Category:World War I memorials in the United States, Category:Korean War memorials in the United States (not sure if that is right category name), etc., as long as a little bit more documentation supporting those categories is supplied. --Doncram (talk) 21:59, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment: There is no reason for deletion in the nomination.  It is not questioning the actual validity of two sources in the article, and is only pointing out those sources are no longer available online. That does not matter at all.... we are allowed/encouraged to use off-line sources, like books and printed materials. The only other reasoning suggested for deletion was about wp:MEMORIAL which simply does not apply, so there is no valid deletion reason standing. (I !voted "Keep" above.) --Doncram (talk) 20:12, 16 August 2019 (UTC)


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