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No evidence that this specific unit is notable. I don't buy the argument that military units are automatically notable; it needs to be justified in sources, and I'm not seeing that.
Sven ManguardWha?18:25, 4 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Holy cow. This is the regiment around which the South Seas Detachment was built. That makes it one of the most notable Japanese Army regiments of the Pacific War. --
Yaush (
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18:55, 4 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Speedy Keep Yes, it is one of the best-known and most notable regiments in the Imperial Japanese Army. Pull any book on the war in New Guinea and you will find references to. But start with Miller, Long and McCarthy, and work through the shelf from there. This is why we have
WP:MILUNIT; but if you want to not "buy the argument that military units are automatically notable" then you to demonstrate
WP:COMPETENCE with the sources.
Hawkeye7 (
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19:13, 4 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Keep. General consensus is that military units of this size are notable, per
WP:MILUNIT. I don't think we'd even be having this discussion if this regiment was American or British. --
Necrothesp (
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20:42, 4 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Withdrawn It is very clear that this isn't going to get deleted. It would have been nice to have had someone from MILHIST take a look at this and say "You're right, there isn't an indication of notability in this, but here are sources [1], [2], and [3] that demonstrate it. Don't search using google, search using [X].", but (Redacted)Sven ManguardWha?21:00, 4 December 2013 (UTC)reply
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