Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Groupement de soutien de la base de défense de Calvi

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The result was redirect to French Armed Forces. And delete. Sandstein 05:41, 26 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Groupement de soutien de la base de défense de Calvi[edit]

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This is a unit of the French Army. A search turned up no sources that show that this unit is notable. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 05:13, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to French Armed Forces. Redirects are cheap and this is the official name of the unit. Interestingly, it matches the article name at FR.Wiki, which (coupled with the machine translation) makes me think this is simply a copy of that article translated. Even the format matches, generally. It might be notable, it might not, but a redirect would leave the history for whoever wanted to take a crack at an article (in English!) down the line. UltraExactZZ ^Said~ Did 13:09, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of France-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:24, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:25, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. While commanded by a lieutenant-colonel, this appears to be a company-sized unit (106 personnel). We do have plenty of articles on company-sized units, but I'm tending to think this one really isn't notable enough. It's just a base administration unit for the units based in a particular département. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:18, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This is a small support unit in Corsica, not exactly a hotbed of fighting. Unless it has some wonderful connection to Napoleon, I'm stumped as to how it could ever be notable. Clarityfiend (talk) 02:39, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- While I don't think this particular unit is notable either, I will just point out that, contrary to the beliefs of some misguided souls, there is no reason whatsoever why non-frontline support units should not be notable if a decent case can be made for their notability. The generalisation that combat units are notable and non-combat units are not notable is one usually put forward by arrogant combat veterans or, even worse, by wannabes with no real military experience. I'm not accusing you of being either one of them, incidentally, but I would like to make this clear. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:45, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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