Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Spanish Armed Forces unit mottoes

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Mdaniels5757 (talk) 02:06, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of Spanish Armed Forces unit mottoes

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This information seems interesting to have on the articles of specific units, but it does not seem noteworthy enough to have a whole list that's nothing but mottos. Beland (talk) 22:31, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Beland (talk) 22:31, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Beland (talk) 22:31, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I can't honestly see any problem with this article or any real reasoning behind the nomination. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:10, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. First of all, I think it's fair to start mentioning that I'm the creator and main contributor to the article in question.

Trying to leave that aside, I think that the article is relevant enough to be in Wikipedia, has a sufficient amount of references, contains historical mottoes related to Spanish history -like Desperta, ferro!-; and also has a decent amount of recent visits taking into account its specificity. In addition, I'd like to mention that the idea to create the article arose to me after seeing the articles List of United States Armed Forces unit mottoes and List of military unit mottoes by country which follow an identical structure and include information of similar relevance, and as the number of mottoes I researched for the Spanish Armed Forces was large, I decided to include them in a separate article taking United States' one as a model. (For clarification: I don't want to use WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS as an argument of wheter it's noteworthy or not, but as an explanation of why I thought the article could be included.)

I understand that coming from a foreign country and being almost all of them in a different language than English, an editor unfamiliar with the matter could regard the article as irrelevant; but I believe someone with interest in the military or Spanish history could find it interesting, circumstance which I think the page hit number provides an insight.

Have a nice day! — Ce Ele 415 (talk) 16:51, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

KEEP When an article gets too long its common to split off parts of it. List of military unit mottoes by country is quite long, so this part of it has its own article, just like the American section does. Dream Focus 14:52, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly, I'm not sure why we have that, either. It adds a bit of flavor to an organization article to include the motto, but it's a bit of a head scratcher why anyone would want to read only mottos without reading anything else about the organizations. It just seems like a big collection of trivia to me. -- Beland (talk) 21:42, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Given a motto, you can look up the unit. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:29, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comments: 106 references and so many It has not been possible to retrieve the requested information. The destination of the requested page or document may have changed. If you are sure that the address is correct, please contact the webmaster indicating the error, or This site can’t be reached. -- Otr500 (talk) 07:38, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That is true, the Spanish Armed Forces redesigned their websites and many links broke or changed, and others didn't transfer well from the Spanish version. I intend to fix them when I find some time. Thanks, — Ce Ele 415 (talk) 11:00, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Seems a suitable subject for a list. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:20, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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