Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Awards and decorations


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The result was   deleted (CSD G7) by GB fan. NAC.  Cliff  Smith 17:55, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Awards and decorations

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Unnecessary disambiguation page.It lists some of categories present here.Any new person just browsing wikipedia woudn't understand what a category means.A person usually searching for an award will obviously know the name of it!  TheStrike  Σagle   13:38, 28 July 2012 (UTC)


 * 1) Unnecessary disambiguation page. - In your opinion. I have a different opinion. Pdfpdf (talk) 14:43, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
 * 2) A person usually searching for an award will obviously know the name of it! - Again, in your opinion. My experience is the opposite. There are many, many, many decorations. Many of them have similar names. It is very likely that a person searching for a decoration does not know its exact, and does not know exactly how it has, or hasn't been capitalised. If it's a foreign award, you can pretty well guarantee that the person does not know the name of the award, does not know how to spell it in the foreign language, doesn't know if the page name has been translated into English, and if it has, how well it has been translated, and which spelling dialect the translator has used.
 * For example, if you weren't American, how would you find out the name of the American wound decoration? Why would you think that it would be called the Purple Heart? Do you understand my point, or do I need to provide more examples? Pdfpdf (talk) 14:43, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
 * 3) There are a number of similar requirements which I am trying to address. I expect that there are many ways to address them. I'm trying to determine a useful and usable type of functionality to address them. Completely removing the functionality by proposing it be deleted is neither helpful nor useful. If you can think of a better way to provide the functionality, I could use all the help and ideas offered.
 * A simple example: Let's say you want to know what the highest civilian decoration for bravery is in a given country, what's its name, and what the medal and ribbon look like. Finding the highest military decoration is usually not too hard. But civilian decoration? That's an example of the sort of problem I'm trying to address. Pdfpdf (talk) 14:43, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, how do you expect a normal(not us) reader to understand categories and browse through them?  TheStrike  Σagle   14:46, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm giving that some thought. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 15:04, 28 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. No primary topic, so no need for this page. - Presidentman talk · contribs Random Picture of the Day (Talkback) 14:28, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Maybe no primary topic is stated yet, but that doesn't mean there isn't one. I'm working on it. All suggestions greatfully received. Pdfpdf (talk) 14:43, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Closed - Moved it to User:Pdfpdf/Awards and decorations. Obviously it's not sufficiently mature to put in wikispace yet. However, any suggestions on how to address/solve the problems I mentioned would be appreciated. Pdfpdf (talk) 15:02, 28 July 2012 (UTC)


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