Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of paramilitary organizations

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The result was keep‎. ✗plicit 14:07, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of paramilitary organizations[edit]

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Fails WP:NLIST. UtherSRG (talk) 11:11, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Military and Lists. UtherSRG (talk) 11:11, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Police-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 13:06, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Terrorism-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 13:07, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment as far as I know, if a topic is notable a list of that topic is notable. Paramilitaries are definitely notable, so shouldn’t this be notable? I’m not actually voting “keep” because I suspect the real reasoning here is that the list looks like crap and will almost certainly never be improved to a usable standard, so WP:TNT and WP:IAR could easily apply. Dronebogus (talk) 17:43, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per WP:TIND. The list does at some points feel incomplete, of varying standards and what not, but a lot of lists on dynamic topics (and paramilitary organisations tend to come and go as they are formed, engage in conflict and are wiped out, or offhand information might simply be lacking) tend to be incomplete by definition. --Ouro (blah blah) 18:02, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep This is a valid information and navigational list. Links to plenty of articles for paramilitary organizations. Would be better if there were columns for information like the start of the Asia section has right now. Dream Focus 00:00, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This passes WP:NLIST, as paramilitary organizations have been discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources. These include Paramilitary Groups and the State Under Globalization, "Goons, Gunmen, and Gendarmerie: Toward a Reconceptualization of Paramilitary Formations", "Strong militias, weak states and armed violence: Towards a theory of ‘state-parallel’ paramilitaries", and many other reliable published works. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 04:58, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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