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The result was keep. Courcelles 23:53, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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- Delete. Fails WP:ANYBIO. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 06:36, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Strong Keep The Order of the Sword is a well-known and significant award and honor. I will add more book references.Geek2003 (talk) 08:37, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Number 185 on the list of The Order of the Sword recipients (BTW, many other recipient do not have WP articles) and writing some books does not fulfil WP:ANYBIO. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 11:36, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- All of the Order of the Sword Generals should have wiki pages because they have controlled billions of dollars a year from the country affiliated with and affected millions of peoples lives, every year they were in office.Geek2003 (talk) 11:49, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 01:49, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 01:49, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Having a major building named for the General will live in history forever. Geek2003 (talk) 01:59, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Additional refs added.Geek2003 (talk) 02:02, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep, subject meets WP:SOLDIER & has sufficient coverage in multiple books in order for the subject to arguably pass WP:GNG. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 04:19, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Added Major awards and decorations section. Geek2003 (talk) 11:28, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- WP:SOLDIER is only a proposed guideline. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 20:42, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. As a general officer, passes WP:SOLDIER and WP:COMMONSENSE. Yes, they're just essays, but they're very sensible essays. -- Necrothesp (talk) 21:12, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep - Per comments above. --Kumioko (talk) 18:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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