Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Distinctive Unit Insignia - Indian Army


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The result was keep. Merits of a move can be discussed on the article's talk page. (non-admin closure) Red Phoenix  talk  02:57, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Distinctive Unit Insignia - Indian Army

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Little information about the topic and really does not have WP:GNG to have a page of it's own. Might be better off to take the image and add them to the relevant associated pages. For example, List of regiments of the Indian Army, Indian Army Armoured Corps and so on. Adamgerber80 (talk) 20:06, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. GameInfirmary Talk 21:01, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. GameInfirmary Talk 21:01, 14 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep per Eastmain below. Merge with List of regiments of the Indian Army as a valid WP:ATD -- D Big X ray  21:46, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep. This article could probably be substantially expanded. See the article about Distinctive unit insignia of the United States Army, which appears to have significantly fewer soldiers that the Indian Army does. Our main source of information about military insignia from any country tends to be the military itself rather than secondary sources. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 23:50, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep'. Meets NLIST and GNG - as would insignia of most forces. Sourcing should be improved.Icewhiz (talk) 16:13, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand, but renamed to Cap badges of the Indian Army. This would appear to be the name actually used for these particular badges, as it is in the British Army. "Distinctive unit insignia" sounds very American. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:57, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep per all above. Ashok  ( talk ) 13:39, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment This argument seems that WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. There are major differences between Distinctive unit insignia for United States Army and this page and each page should be evaluated with it's own merit. The first major issue is that unlike the US Army which has a dedicated web-page to military heraldry, complete with associated history and has had much scholarly coverage on it, the Indian Army has very little. Most Indian Armed Forces heraldry related images on Wikipedia cannot be added to that page since they are NFCC (Example:File:Brigade_of_the_Guards_Insignia.gif). This arises out of the fact that though we have an approval from the IA to now publish images to Commons, there is little heraldry information (text or images) on their website. Sure a page like that can exist but as of now we do not have enough references or images to create a page. I am of the opinion that there are alternate pages where some of these images (non NFCC ones) can be accommodated until we have enough to merit a pages of it's own. Adamgerber80 (talk) 13:49, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Adamgerber80, the topic of the debate is whether the topic is notable or not. You can argue on WP:NFC only after addressing the elephant in the room. If the topic is notable, which clearly to me it is, an article with even 1 image is acceptable. That said, no one stops any editor from also copying the images from the above article to List of regiments of the Indian Army as long as the copyright policies are justified. I suggest you to withdraw the nomination.-- D Big X ray  18:12, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I am happy to withdraw this nomination if anybody can even add a single decent reference to that article. It currently has a reference from scoopwhoop which is WP:TABLOID and a possibly copied from Wikipedia. The second is about UN Peacekeepers in general and does not even make a single mention of the Indian Army. Sure, an article with even a single image is acceptable, but we do need some references to back this up. Adamgerber80 (talk) 21:35, 17 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep Indian army cap badges certainly satisfy GNG and LISTN. A search for "indian army"+"cap badges" in GBooks confirms this. The page should be moved, as Necrothesp correctly points out. James500 (talk) 15:35, 20 August 2018 (UTC) While we are at it, we need a main article for uniforms of the Indian army generally, as we lack such an article. James500 (talk) 18:41, 21 August 2018 (UTC)


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