Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John C. Arrowsmith

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. dbenbenn | talk 14:54, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

John C. Arrowsmith
Not notable. We can't have an article on every soldier in every war. – flamurai (t) 12:53, Feb 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. the references in Ledo Road suffice. Nateji77 13:08, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep He was a general. Philip 13:09, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with an article about a war he fought in. Radiant! 13:17, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Tentative keep. Unless he's Douglas MacArthur then there probably isn't room for him in the main World War II article.  In principle he could be merged to Ledo Road, but I'd like to give the General time to fill out a bit. TenOfAllTrades | Talk 18:23, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep; A general involved in significant campaigns during wartime. Kappa 13:31, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. as a general he certainly passes the notability standard for biography, but it definately needs a ton of work, someone list it on COTW.  ALKIVAR &trade;[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 05:58, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Needs to be cleaned up but a World War II General is definitely notable. We also need an article for John Arrowsmith who was a founding member of the Royal Geographic Society and who produced the London Atlas which was rated as the best world atlas yet produced. Capitalistroadster 06:28, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, there were lots of generals back then. Wyss 12:05, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Reasonable to think about having an article on every general in WW II.  RickK 21:52, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

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