Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DAGO (United States Army)


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The result was delete. Geschichte (talk) 21:01, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

DAGO (United States Army)

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Unsourced since 2007; the article claims the term is rare. Apart from one extensive military glossary I find no attestations for either claimed meaning of the acronym. A search for the general terms gives basically nothing as well, uses the term as a description of various roles, not as a title in and of itself. User:力 (power~enwiki, π,  ν ) 23:49, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
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Delete because according to wikipedia guidelines, this article is not relevant enough and resources are definitely missing.--Chris VDR (talk) 13:33, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete as unsourced. Due to the abbreviation's similarity to an ethnic slur, I would guess that if this abbreviation was ever in common use, it may have been discouraged from use since then. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 00:18, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete The acronym as I've usually seen it used refers to "Department of the Army General Orders," which appears on the Army's official publications site as AGO (Army General Order). This would have come into use after 1947 or so, and may have been an unofficial contraction (I've seen DA AGO used in some early General Orders). Intothatdarkness 03:13, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete or disambiguate unless sources showing notability are found. There is some potential for a disambiguation, per Intothat above, but we need sourcing first. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 09:09, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete: Per nom. Article cites no sources, and very few edits since creation. The linked wiktionary page doesn't even mention DAGO as an acronym. bop34 • talk • contribs 12:21, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment An example of the acronym in use (referring to Dept of the Army General Orders) can be found on the first page of the 1973 edition of the Army's Pamphlet 672-3. It's also used in a letter from 1969 relating to campaign awards for members of the 9th Infantry Division. A search in the TTU Vietnam archive for DAGO turned up 38 documents, although some are duplicates. Note these are all official sources and not shorthand created by clerks or field commanders. Intothatdarkness 23:12, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete could be in subsection in an Army article somewhere here, not enough for an aritcle by itself. Oaktree b (talk) 00:56, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Sincerely, Գարիկ Ավագյան (talk) 12:23, 10 October 2021 (UTC)


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