Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nathan Lloyd Smith
A Canadian soldier who died in a friendly fire incident. Sarge Baldy 23:08, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
- Is there an article on this friendly fire incident that we could redirect this to? RJFJR 00:32, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)
- Delete, not notable, Wikipedia is not a memorial. Megan1967 02:23, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Marc Leger, Ainsworth Dyer and Richard Green died in the same incident. If we were deleting individual articles and merging into one article about the incident, Harry Schmidt and William Umbach, the Americans who shot them, would have to go there too. Samaritan 23:24, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- I agree with Samaritan. All of the above articles should be re-directed to Friendly fire. If not, then my vote is to keep. --YUL89YYZ 16:34, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)
- Merge and redirect. The friendly fire incident was a major news story in Canada at the time, but I'm not sure that the individual victims names' all warrant an article. The story is already covered under the name of the pilot that bombed the Canadians, Harry Schmidt. (Incidentally, William Umbach isn't really notable either, and could also be merged and redirected.) --TenOfAllTrades 00:21, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. I hope the soldiers receive fitting memorials for their sacrifice, but Wikipedia isn't the place for that. All of these articles should be deleted. As for the pilots, they aren't notable either in an encyclopdic sense. I don't think their names have stayed in the public mind. Those articles should be deleted also. The incident is notable, though, and a description of it should be incorporated into the appropriate article about the Iraq war. --BM 16:27, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- This was an incident which received heavy coverage in the Canadian media; its relative lack of coverage in American media was part of the story. I wouldn't object to merging into a single article on the incident which contained information about all four -- but doing that within the pilot's article isn't sufficient, because the pilot can't be categorized as a Canadian-related topic. Short of that happening, however, these need to be kept; the incident was significant enough that it's absolutely essential to have some kind of article(s) on the topic. Bearcat 18:51, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)