Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ticket of leave (British military)


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The result was   merge to Ticket of Leave. Stifle (talk) 15:26, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Ticket of leave (British military)

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No evidence found for this being a military term for a convict released for military service. The only references seem to be for a ticket which allowed a man to go on leave during the second world war - which would probably not be notable enough.

The article was originally forked and a db page created. I am fairly sure that the db page does not need to exist, Ticket of leave (Australian convicts) can be put into the Ticket of leave page and the two empty (British military) and (Australian convicts) can be deleted. There are references for men who had been given a ticket being later in military service, but this can be added to the same page as a note and does not need a separate page. Chaosdruid (talk) 22:20, 7 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete or rediect per nom. The single cite doesn't support the definition given (not surprising since its the 1911 EB and therefore predates WW1). --ThePaintedOne (talk) 23:28, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Logan Talk Contributions 00:05, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge to single article, neither disambiguated as Australian nor British Army. Ticket of leave, and particularly the pejorative ticket of leave man has a much broader significance than Australia. It's probably best known from that source, via the US civil war era play "The Ticket of Leave Man", but it's notably used by Marx in his description of the Paris Commune and had some currency around 1900 too, in both the Cuban Spanish-American War and also the Boer War. I'm unaware of any significance more than this around the Great War, although it was still in use then. Andy Dingley (talk) 02:47, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:32, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:32, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Ticket of leave (Australian convicts) should be moved to Ticket of leave. Ticket of leave (British military) doesn't need a separate article, but it's unclear whether any of it is verifiable - it could be moved to the other article's talk page until verified. Peter E. James (talk) 13:37, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge to Ticket of Leave then delete (as it is unlkely anyone would type ticket of leave British military in the search box), also merge Ticket of leave (Australian convicts) to Ticket of leave and delete for the same reason. Chaosdruid (talk) 01:57, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge No reason to delete, I agree that we should merge the two articles into a generic article on tickets of leave. Only delete if and when a histmerge can be or is done.  Swarm   X 06:38, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
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