Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Military designation of days and hours

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 no consensus‎. I'm closing this as No Consensus as it has been open for a month now. Editors are somewhat united that "something" should happen with this content but there is no consensus on what that is. It is out of a closer's purview to "export" or "wikify" content from an article to another project. Maybe start a talk page discussion and return to AFD when there is a sign of more participation. Or raise the question on the Military History WikiProject and perhaps folks there might have some opinion on either what should be done with this article or how it could be improved. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:10, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Military designation of days and hours[edit]

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There may be something useful here, but right now we have a mess. The lead talks about NATO, but the title suggests more general topic, and what we have is a poorly referenced list of various A-Day to Z-Day as used in various contexts, from WWII, to NATO to US military. Right now this is an ORish mess of military trivia. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:46, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:46, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Sure it needs (massive) improvement, but it's a collection of hard to find definitions, not all of which appear (yet) under the corresponding standalone entries. Urhixidur (talk) 13:55, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete It doesn't know what it is. It's not an article, not really a list. The title is global, but the entries are exclusively US/NATO (okay, this could be fixed). There's a mish mash of operational jargon like "F-Hour" mixed in amongst historical terms like V-E Day (which already redirect onto the appropriate - notable! - article). Feels like trivia/fandom. The opening line sets the tone: "NATO designations are specified in Allied Administrative Publication AAP-6 (STANAG 3680) NATO Glossary of Terms and Definitions," Um, okay. So go read STANAG 3680. There is no need to duplicate it here. Similarly, the terms marked (US) are lifted directly (often verbatim) from JP1-02 (Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms). WP:NOTDICT.

It could be a Wiktionary Appendix - "Appendix: US Military Day and Hour Designations" and "Appendix: NATO Day and Hour Designations" but I don't see it as encyclopaedic content. Hemmers (talk) 15:44, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you're advocating for a Move, don't label it Delete. Urhixidur (talk) 18:57, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I’m not advocating for a Move on en.wikipedia. I’m advocating for Delete. This content could be useful on Wiktionary, which is a parallel project. This involves Deleting from en.wiki and creating new page(s) on Wiktionary. Hemmers (talk) 19:43, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Call it Export then. Urhixidur (talk) 14:44, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have seen people say Transwikify... but who will do it? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:26, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:35, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Not a notable list. Wikipedia is not a dictionary or glossary as presented by Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. -- Otr500 (talk) 17:26, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Although I am the nom here, I keep thinkng that this might be saved through listification perhaps? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:25, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:22, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Final relist.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:02, 22 March 2024 (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.