Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/50th Finance Battalion (United States)

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. Gwen Gale (talk) 16:49, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

50th Finance Battalion (United States)[edit]

Likely fails WP:ORG since I could find no secondary sources. Very few g-hits and zero search results for news articles. Samuel Tan 14:10, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

comment Military organization does not follow ORG rule. SYSS Mouse (talk) 02:18, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. -- the wub "?!" 20:28, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Without real notability as a unit. We probably shouldn't be documenting units below regiment or brigade level in any case unless they have particularly unusual distinction. --Dhartung | Talk 03:47, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete while individual combat battalions might be notable, a finance unit I think fails the test - in the most covered Army in all of en:wiki. Buckshot06(prof) 08:16, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and Improve because this is a military unit. It might not seem notable but it seems to be the only military unit that deals with monetary policies. Financial Battalions are necessary for the Army and Army Reserve. There are also many other finance battalions under the command of the 18th Financial Management Center. This then makes the case that this should be kept as there is an entire section devoted to this. There is blatent copyright issues in the article and this should be addressed when looking over the article. In the end, I think that this will eventually be created again and it's probably best to keep the article. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 23:57, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I added links that should suffice as secondary sources, such as Global Security and a Fort Bragg website for the 18th Financial Management Center.

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, lifebaka (talk - contribs) 17:57, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Kevin Rutherford points out the 18th FMC which is one of several finance-related units in the Army. I really doubt that any of these is technically notable, but I would be willing to support a generalized Army article below the level of Defense Finance and Accounting Service, which covers the DOD level. --Dhartung | Talk 19:13, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Though most of the article was copied from the Pentagon's website, since that's a work of the federal government it's not a copyright violation...right? I don't think it would cost us anything to delete it, but I don't have any real opposition to keeping it either. Cumulus Clouds (talk) 23:19, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. — Wackymacs (talk ~ edits) 15:52, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Upmerge somewhere if possible, otherwise delete. Sources are there, but are not strictly reliable and not enough to write a verifiable, decent stub on the topic. Will reconsider if more substantial sources emerge. Skomorokh 10:20, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Would other editors object if I upmerged this to become a page on the ~~18th Financial Management Center, a corps-level headquarters for such things?~~ United States Army Finance Corps? - would become a general overview with all Active and Reserve units currently active listed. This would fit alongside the others at [[1]]. Regards Buckshot06(prof) 09:59, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I created the page for the 18th Financial Management Center. From what I found, uploading might encourage people to added more of each unit (There are at least 30 of them) to the Center's page. The amount of information might start warranting splitting the page once it reaches that point. I think we should revamp the 50th and start creating other unit pages. Maybe the 18th can start looking having lists of the financial units that closely resemble USAF wing and squadron list pages. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 18:42, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Apparantly somebody created the 13th Finance Group. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 18:46, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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.