Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Officier d'épée

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The result was redirect‎ to Ranks in the French Navy#Ranks formerly used in the Navy. I'm closing with a Redirect. If anyone desires to find a way to Merge article content to a list, it's all there in the page history. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:11, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Officier d'épée

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Delete Fails WP:GNG, cannot find any sources to indicate notability other than passing mentions of the existence of this term. Tooncool64 (talk) 00:22, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History, Military, and France. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:06, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

*Delete I can’t even find passing mentions. Mccapra (talk) 06:47, 26 December 2023 (UTC) striking !vote as others clearly have found sources so some kind of AfD seems appropriate Mccapra (talk) 08:04, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Article seems to be subpar. However, do other ranks or military jobs have wiki pages? Homerethegreat (talk) 08:40, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 00:36, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, they do. See, for example field marshal (Australia). Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:43, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's documented in Barbiche 2015 and numerous 18th and 19th century sources such as Brillon 1782. But treating this subject standalone is probably a mistake, as Barbiche and everyone else that I can find almost always treats this as part of a larger subject of classes of Ancien Régime officers in la marine and l'armée de terre.
- Barbiche, Bernard (2015). "Le département de la marine". Les institutions de la monarchie française à l'époque moderne (in French). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. ISBN 9782130642848.
- Brillon, Pierre Jacques (1782). "Administration". Dictionnaire De Jurisprudence Et Des Arrêts (in French). Vol. 2. Lyon: Aimé de la Roche.
Uncle G (talk) 03:57, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect to Ranks in the French Navy § Ranks formerly used in the Navy. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 06:41, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect to Ranks in the French Navy § Ranks formerly used in the Navy. Under Wikipedia:Summary style: If only a few sentences could be written and supported by sources about the subject, that subject does not qualify for a separate article, but should instead be merged into an article about a larger topic. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:43, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I'm not sure a Merge to this section of the article is feasible given that it is just a list. I don't know how additional content could be incorporated into one list item. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:25, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  - I still have creeks in Kentucky. I'll try to work something out for that section. There's more to be said than just a list, I think, from the aforementioned sources. Uncle G (talk) 06:23, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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