Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Army-navy stores

This page is an archive of the discussion surrounding the proposed deletion of the page entitled Army-navy stores.

This page is kept as an historic record.

The result of the debate was to keep the article.

Dicdef. Maybe a topic worth an article; is there any reason to keep this as a stub? -- Jmabel 06:37, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep (I think).  I can imagine there being e.g. historical information about the origin/spread of the stores that could go here. Markalexander100 06:41, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I'd say keep. I've made it into a slightly better stub, and this is an encyclopedic topic. Meelar 06:43, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Like the new stub. Keep - TB 10:04, 2004 May 31 (UTC)
 * Keep - dtto The Land 20:25, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Don't much like the new stub, sorry, Meelar but it's a start on potentially a good topic. I remember when Army-Navy stores really did carry war surplus. I have no idea what happens to "war surplus" these days, but it doesn't get into the Army-Navy stores any more. Or Edmund Scientific (ah, I remember the great days when it had only just changed its name from Edmund Salvage, and you could buy chipped lenses from them in coin envelopes...) Dpbsmith 00:31, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Hey, I wasn't shooting for a medal--I've visited one army surplus store once in my life (about 10 years ago), and have never heard anything more of the concept. No offense taken. Meelar 05:15, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Yellow pages search indicates at least 30 companies called 'Army and Navy store' in the UK.
 * keep Exploding Boy 09:01, Jun 1, 2004 (UTC)

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