Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/110th Rifle Division

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 keep. Daniel.Bryant 01:13, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 110th Rifle Division

After reading this I have no idea what this is, other than it is somehow connected to World War II. A Yahoo! search yielded 1,620 hits; 19,200 with Google. DRK 01:19, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

• Weak Delete A military unit of this strength and in this historical period is undoubtedly notable. However, this is an orphaned article [1] which is almost completely devoid of context or content. --IslaySolomon 02:38, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect and merge. The article is supposed to cover the WWII German division. I created German 110th Infantry Division for redirect and merge. NeoFreak 03:25, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I tried to expand the article and add references. 110th Rifle Division was part of the Soviet Union's army, not the German army. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 03:47, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I misread the portion on the Königsberg pocket and assumed the original author had mislabeled the division. Notable as a division size WWII unit. Needs a rewrite bad though, I'll see what I can't do. NeoFreak 04:47, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep This author has created a bunch of articles about WWII-era Soviet divisions in the last 24-hours. So far, all of them check out as legit, and I think giving a litle time for expansion is not out of the question. Carom 04:49, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

• Comment. I've already added them all to the Soviet WWII divisions category he created and wikified the articles. NeoFreak 05:22, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep per Carom. It just needs a little love. -- Xiliquiern 11:37, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
• Comment — Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't Soviet rifle divisions the equivalent of a brigade-strength unit in other armies? Perhaps I'm thinking of Russian tank corps, which were division strength. Anyway it may prove difficult to obtain good information on these units. — RJH (talk) 18:02, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and fixup. Its perfectly feasible to get info on Soviet formations from Nafziger's publications and similar earlier works on the Red Army OOB in English. Hard slog, but more info could be extracted from histories such as Glantz or Erickson. In addition, Russian-language material is available. Not much worse than many of the articles on other WWII formations. Angus McLellan (Talk) 19:18, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Has several sources, thus verifiable. Seems notable. Could perhaps use expansion, though. Cool3 21:53, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Involved in a couple of notable battles and is a large unit. JASpencer 21:26, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per the comments above. RFerreira 23:31, 28 September 2006 (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.