Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Texas Cold War Medal

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The result was delete. Sandstein 10:32, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Texas Cold War Medal

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I cannot find any secondary coverage on this minor award. Fails GNG. Also, it is against Wikipedia policy to base articles entirely on primary sources as per WP:PRIMARY. b uidhe 09:10, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. b uidhe 09:10, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. b uidhe 09:10, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Secondary coverage in RS for this proposed minor award does exist. See [1][2] Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:44, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The nominator's interpretation of WP:PRIMARY is entirely incorrect; it states no such thing, and in fact many articles are sourced from primary sources (as they should be if their subject is a consequence of legislation). What PRIMARY in so many words simply states is that if you are providing analysis, that's when primary sources cannot be used. Also, notability is not dependent on the sources being primary, but rather on whether sources do in fact exist that prove the subject is notable. After consultation with WikiProject Military History (see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history#Awards) this award was deemed non-notable under that Project's criteria. Furthermore, there is no secondary coverage at all that I could find. What's been quoted above are in fact two very local sources discussing cold war medals in general, and not the Texas one specifically. This all points to a very flimsy notability claim directly hanging on the very same legislation that creates them. And given they don't seem to have had any societal impact, etc, that argument is a very weak one. I therefore support the article's deletion. PK650 (talk) 22:07, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Agree with PK650 remarks above that this is non-notable, and there’s little evidence of notability easily found anywhere. Shelbystripes (talk) 00:52, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete it exists but is ordinary. Bearian (talk) 18:45, 22 January 2020 (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.