Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iraq war memorial

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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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 14:43, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Iraq war memorial

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Contested prod. This is a memorial about 5 soldiers of a brigade in the Iraq war. There is no assertion of the notability of either the brigade or the soldiers. The editor who removed the prod thought that since the soldiers died in combat, they are notable. I don't think this is automatic. -- lucasbfr talk 23:34, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

  • Strong delete. I originally nominated this for deletion because, as the nominator noted, "there is no assertion of the notability of either the brigade or the soldiers"--Thomas.macmillan 00:35, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - while the sacrifices of American soldiers deserve to be immortalized, an encyclopedia is not necessarily the place. Not all war memorials are notable, prima facie. --Haemo 00:54, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletions. -- Carom 01:00, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per WP:N. With all due respect, there are already and will be more such memorials in numerous localities across these United States. In all probability the only one that will be notable is the one that will be erected, perhaps decades from now, in Washington, D.C. --Dhartung | Talk 06:24, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, do you know how many soldiers die in combat per year? It's simply not part of our mission to cover them all. We have a policy for notability, let's stick to it.—greenrd 01:26, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
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