Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/LST-766
None of the keep !votes above seem to give a policy/guideline based reason to keep. They all rest on, at best, WP:SHIP and WP:MILHIST conventions. Wikiproject conventions != policy or guideline. Policies and guidelines have been decided upon by the entire community. Wikiproject conventions are decided upon by a small subset of the community that has a strong affinity for the subject matter involved. Since policies and guidelines are decided upon by the community as a whole, there is input from people without a strong affinity for the subject matter. IMO, basing AfD arguments on Wikiproject conventions seems like a backdoor for allowing fancruft and the like to be included in the encyclopedia. A few arguments rest on the fact that this ship was awarded a battle star. Remember that notability is not inherited. From my understanding of the battle star, arguing that any ship that has been awarded a battle star is like arguing that anyone who has received the vietnam service award is notable. Everything else seems to be , , or 
— User:RadManCF, 14:26, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:ILIKEIT||WP:ITSINTERESTING||WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)