Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sterling's Infantry Company


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The result was redirect to List of Delaware Civil War units. Content can be merged from history.  Sandstein  19:48, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Sterling's Infantry Company

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I hate to do this, because I'm very much interested in the American Civil War, but I'm not seeing how this is notable. WP:MILUNIT is generally not expanded all the way down to companies (except for artillery) for the ACW, as the battalion and regiment were the Land forces units that are capable of undertaking significant, or independent, military operations for that war. If this had ever seen any combat, that might be one thing, but it just guarded a railroad in the home front for less than a year. Besides Dyer, I'm not finding much. This may not be reliable, and appears to largely be a reprint of Dyer. This is an attributed copy of Dyer. It's too small to pass WP:MILUNIT, and one source (Dyer) and a bunch of reprints of it don't meet WP:GNG. I'm thinking that the best choice is to redirect to List of Delaware Civil War units, but as I can see this being controversial, I'm taking it here. Hog Farm Bacon 16:05, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Bacon 16:05, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Delaware-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Bacon 16:05, 1 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Redirect to List of Delaware Civil War units. Fails MILUNIT due to size, and while there are a few exceptions to the idea that sub-units aren't notable, like ACW artillery batteries, they generally played an important role in multiple major battles. This particular company doesn't appear to have done anything notable except guard a railway line for under a year. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:07, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect per nom. Reasonable exception to our usual rule about independent sub-units. Buckshot06 (talk) 08:52, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge with List of Delaware Civil War units: I don't think it's independently notable, but we might as well keep the little information present at the target article. Eddie891 Talk Work 15:49, 8 September 2020 (UTC)


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