The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Please note that consensus is not defined by any particular number of "votes" at AfD. Juliancolton (talk) 01:57, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Operation Valentine (1948)[edit]

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Fails WP:V - existence of this military operation cannot be verified through JSTOR, google scholar/book/web. Unmentioned in all the references listed - possible hoax. Claritas (talk) 14:35, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Important note - the original contributor - SGGH created the article in good faith, as it was a red-link in a template, and provided the references used for the main articles. Claritas (talk) 14:38, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete at this time, despite extensive search in every reference listed on the page (included there for an eventual background section when the article was being built) as well as JSTOR, google books, scholar, google and so on using the most imaginative things I could find, big fat zero. If Bernard Fall and Martin Windrow didn't record it, then it probably doesn't exist and I don't know why it was in the campaign box. SGGH ^ping! 14:42, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It was in the campaign box because Cliché Online added it on the 15th of May, 2007. See here - [1]. Claritas (talk) 14:57, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have linked him to this discussion to see if he can shed more light. SGGH ^ping! 16:59, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, in Fall I can't even find any record of any operations for 1948, of any name. I only find Lea followed by something called Calibre or something similar. SGGH

I've read through the relevant sections of [2], which seems to give a pretty thorough coverage, and there's no "Operation Valentine" mentioned. Operation Lea is the only one which occurred around that time. Claritas (talk) 15:30, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

^ping! 12:59, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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~~Weak Keep~~Delete per User:Claritas comment below. Treylander 15:55, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please read the nomination before !voting in a discussion. There are no references to "Operation Valentine" in any of the works listed. Thanks. Claritas (talk) 16:31, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Question the seven days are up. Is this going to be relisted? Not sure if I can do that seeing as its about an article I created. S.G.^(GH) _ping! 13:42, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think there's a consensus to delete if three users are in support of deletion, and there are no users in support of keeping. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chak 137, for instance. Claritas § 17:02, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cool. I've created a new article for an operation to go where this was one in the template. This can be deleted now its closed. S.G.^(GH) _ping! 17:07, 1 June 2010 (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.