Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Knight's Cross recipients: A


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The result was Keep. Jayden54 10:58, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

List of Knight's Cross recipients: A


This award seems to have been handed out like candy. Besides, Wikipedia should not be a host for Nazi trivia. Denni  talk 18:08, 20 November 2006 (UTC) Note that, as I observe above, this is just one part of what appears to be an ongoing project to document the Knight's Cross recipients in a series of separate lists. To delete one and leave the others would be rather strange. But as there seems to be no actual reason to delete this, I guess the problem doesn't arise. &mdash; Haeleth Talk 22:50, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep as a historically notable list. --Czj 18:15, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep This is a notable Nazi award handed out during WWII. Google itself has about 3.5 million hits on it. Diez2 18:19, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep 128 names in the list for A, times 26 letters in the alphabet = an estimated 3328 recipients overall, which is manageable &mdash; compare List of Medal of Honor recipients (3461 recipients). It's not like we're talking about Purple Hearts here. Demiurge 18:32, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
 * According to Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, there are 7313 recipients in total. However, the list appears to be being split up: the main list article is List of Knight's Cross recipients. &mdash; Haeleth Talk 22:50, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep Scienter 18:37, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. There's plenty of precedent for documenting the recipients of various countries' top military awards: there's the Medal of Honor list Demiurge cites, and we have biographies of every recipient of the Victoria Cross. The mere fact that this award was handed out by the Nazis hardly disqualifies it. (Indeed, deleting this list merely because of the Nazi association would be a flagrant violation of WP:NPOV, which - believe it or not - forbids us to condemn the Nazis!)
 * Keep as an inherently manageable list of recipients of a notable award (and not exactly one which is likely to keep expanding, unlike many other military awards). Attempting to censor things because of their association with nasty people isn't a useful argument. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 22:57, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
 * DeleteNo source is cited. The editor may be typing them in from a book or from an archive somewhere. If that is public domain, it could be put on Wikisource. If they are getting it from an online source, it would be better to have an article about the award (when created, its history, its purpose, number of recipients, etc) and a link to the online source. If it is a copyrighted book then it is a copyvio. There is no need to list each recipient in such a cumbersome list as this. I hope the next step isn't to start creating an individual article for each recipient. Edison 03:32, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, wikisource doesn't take reference data, and this is as appropriate as a list of Medal of Honor winners or recipients of any other major military award. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 05:27, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, because contrary to the nominator's opinion, the Knight's cross was not handed out like candy. Cleary User:Denni has no conception of the scale of WW2 if he thinks that the list of citations is long.  Nor should User:Denni's personal prejudice against Nazism have anything to do with the content of this encyclopedia, which as far as I know is not a repository solely of leftist/liberal propaganda. The Crying Orc 09:12, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, historically notable list. bbx 08:56, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


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