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Italy

Soldiershop

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Found no independent sourcing to pass WP:NCORP. PARAKANYAA (talk) 22:23, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Italy-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 22:59, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History and Military. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:22, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

• Delete. No secondary coverage. BlookyNapsta (talk) 08:54, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
• Delete - No WP:SIGCOV for the subject. Notability template from 2017 that has not been resolved is not a good sign. Kvinnen (talk) 22:27, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Sofia Frometa

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I didn't find any WP:SIGCOV about her. Svartner (talk) 16:20, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Delete - this is a poorly sourced page about a BLP. Bearian (talk) 01:26, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Palizzolo Gravina

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Unsourced since 2006. Fails WP:GNG.4meter4 (talk) 05:12, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

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• Merge I’ve linked this article to the relevant article on Italian Wikipedia but that’s of very little help in finding sources. I can’t actually find any in depth coverage of the subject at all. However I believe he passes WP:AUTHOR as he is “regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by peers or successors” and his work is widely cited and authoritative. His magnum opus on Sicilian heraldry is an important authority on the history of the island. For example the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani cites it 29 times. The best solution I can come up with is to merge this article into House of Gravina and redirect, with the merged content focusing more on the book than on the author. Mccapra (talk) 08:05, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

  If the book passes WP:NBOOK another option would be to refactor this into being a book article. That's often a good solution for authors with only one notable book. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 09:12, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

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possibly but though the book is widely used as a reference don’t see any in depth coverage of it to warrant an article with the book as a subject. Mccapra (talk) 22:09, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

@Mccapra: Perhaps a merge to Kingdom of Sicily? I would imagine his history would be covering that period of history, the notable families of that kindom (ie the heraldry/families that ran the kingdom) and would be highly pertinent there.4meter4 (talk) 22:33, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

• Maybe refactor as book article, maybe delete. I don't think there's enough here to be worth merging anywhere else; I'm not convinced it would really be WP:DUE at the suggested merge targets. But I did some hunting and the best I found was:
  • "Symbols of Urban Identity in Sicily: Transformations and Hybridizations of Civic Heraldry", with five sentences on him, one analyzing the book Palizzolo Gravina displayed a philological and symbolic sensitivity rare for the period: the author did not merely catalog coats of arms but interpreted their historical sources, formal transformations, and cultural foundations, thereby contributing to the formation of a distinct Sicilian heraldic science and another describing him as an internationally known heraldist (plus some biographical and bibliographical details)
  • According to this non-sigcov list of publications "of interest to demonology", there was a 1972 facsimile reprint of the original, which is the kind of thing that suggests (but does not prove) book notability

Mainly, I find a considerable number of citations to the book (dozens and dozens, all the way up to the present). I think the best "keep" argument would be WP:NBOOK#3 on the basis of Gravina's status as a reference in heraldry, and re-factoring the article to be a book article. I feel lukewarm on the book's notability but would be willing to do the refactor if that seems best. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 02:06, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Svartner (talk) 07:38, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

• Comment I’d support refactoring as a book article. Mccapra (talk) 18:37, 5 December 2025 (UTC)