Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Air Cadet Squadrons in Canada

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. cholmes75 ^{(chit chat)} 06:04, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of Air Cadet Squadrons in Canada[edit]

meets criteria for what Wikipedia is not. Wikipedia is not a mere list of squadrons. While only some may be notable, not all are. Additionally, this listing is available externally at [1], [2], [3], and [4]. Luke! 23:40, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. If it's complete then it's a useful enough list for someone who's interested. -- Necrothesp 02:12, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. It was useful for me trying to find some old friends from camp! I say keep it, I know people that use this list for other things too. Archie325 01:49, 9 November 2006 (UTC) (See if you can guess what MY sqn. is)[reply]

Come on now, how did this list help you find some old friends? I find this notion a bit of a stretch. Even if you did find your old friends through a listing such as this article, the content is almost exactly duplicated in the external links given above. And what other uses could this list have other than to show a list of squadrons, of which only a minority our notable? Luke! 01:19, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. It doesn't matter if some of the squadrons are not notable - the general topic is notable. --- RockMFR 23:00, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The general topic being the Royal Canadian Air Cadet organization, not the list that this article is. It would predominantly be a red-link article spurring eventual article growth of other Air Cadet squadrons that may not be notable. Luke! 01:19, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The sum of the four pages you reference is less than the one page that you're proposing to delete. This page tells me that there's a squadron (825) in Yellowknife, NWT, which is not listed on any of those four pages. Plus there's the entire central region (Ontario), which doesn't seem to have a convenient page like the four you list. I'd also opine that there are things you can do with a single list like this that you can't do nearly as easily with a list split across five or six pages - like identify gaps in the numbering, identify the highest and lowest numbered squadron, count the total number of squadrons, look at the distribution of squadrons across the country, etc While I agree that the general topic is the RCAC, I feel that this page does provide value, and that it wouldn't be easy to merge it in with the RCAC page. Looking at the List of Sea Cadet Corps in Canada, that page was created in July by splitting the info out of the RCSC page.

There is more rationale at User_talk:Dark_Shikari/Archive1#appeal_.3F. Finally, I have to disclose that I'm the one that spent quite a lot time pulling this information together.

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.