Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Officier d'épée


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was redirect‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ to Ranks in the French Navy. I'm closing with a Redirect. If anyone desires to find a way to Merge article content to a list, it's all there in the page history. Liz Read! Talk! 00:11, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Officier d'épée

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*Delete I can’t even find passing mentions. Mccapra (talk) 06:47, 26 December 2023 (UTC) striking !vote as others clearly have found sources so some kind of AfD seems appropriate Mccapra (talk) 08:04, 5 January 2024 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  00:36, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:GNG, cannot find any sources to indicate notability other than passing mentions of the existence of this term. Tooncool64 (talk) 00:22, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History, Military,  and France.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  02:06, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment Article seems to be subpar. However, do other ranks or military jobs have wiki pages? Homerethegreat (talk) 08:40, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Yes, they do. See, for example field marshal (Australia). Hawkeye7   (discuss)  19:43, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * It's documented in and numerous 18th and 19th century sources such as .  But treating this subject standalone is probably a mistake, as Barbiche and everyone else that I can find almost always treats this as part of a larger subject of classes of Ancien Régime officers in la marine and l'armée de terre.
 * Uncle G (talk) 03:57, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to . -- A. B. (talk • contribs •  global count)  06:41, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to . Under Summary style: If only a few sentences could be written and supported by sources about the subject, that subject does not qualify for a separate article, but should instead be merged into an article about a larger topic. Hawkeye7   (discuss)  19:43, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Comment I'm not sure a Merge to this section of the article is feasible given that it is just a list. I don't know how additional content could be incorporated into one list item. Liz Read! Talk! 23:25, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I still have creeks in Kentucky. I'll try to work something out for that section.  There's more to be said than just a list, I think, from the aforementioned sources.  Uncle G (talk) 06:23, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Comment I'm not sure a Merge to this section of the article is feasible given that it is just a list. I don't know how additional content could be incorporated into one list item. Liz Read! Talk! 23:25, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I still have creeks in Kentucky. I'll try to work something out for that section.  There's more to be said than just a list, I think, from the aforementioned sources.  Uncle G (talk) 06:23, 4 January 2024 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.