Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bill Denny (officer)

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The result was delete--Ymblanter (talk) 10:12, 7 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bill Denny (officer)

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Questionable noteability created for an election candidate prior to an election along with Rob Atkinson (surgeon). They also seem to have been created by an editor with potential for WP:COI (based on timing, their userpage content, these are the only two articles the user has created so far, and user's own photos used in the articles). Timeshift (talk) 02:32, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2014 February 28. —cyberbot I ^Notify_Online 02:52, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Very minimal claim to notability, could have been PRODed. The Drover's Wife (talk) 05:54, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Not senior enough for military notability and no other real claim to notability. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:57, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 12:57, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 12:57, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 12:57, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 12:57, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Marginal notability and unlikely to ever meet WP:POLITICIAN - if they unexpectedly do, it's not a difficult matter to recreate at the appropriate time. Orderinchaos 17:10, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:36, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Reluctant delete - He is an interesting person who is of sufficient note, except that the only independent mentions of him are brief and often peripheral. Much of the material in the article is not supported by the references and the longer references are not independent. It's vanishingly unlikely he will win and not much more that his candidacy will attract enough independent writing to support an article. Peripitus (Talk) 23:00, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is clearly heading for deletion, seeing as we're in the middle of an election campaign and shouldn't be giving non-noteable candidates articles, is it possible for this AfD to be closed now and delete rather than waiting the 7 days? Timeshift (talk) 02:12, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the link to Denny at Candidates of the South Australian state election, 2014 in the meantime. Timeshift (talk) 00:26, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: is Member of the Order of Australia sufficient to demonstrate notability?--Grahame (talk) 00:59, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A valid question, seeing that there have been 8,233 inductees in the general and military divisions (and 19,400 OAMs, in case anyone would also want to consider them). Our Category:Members of the Order of Australia shows many AMs who are unquestionably notable for the reasons they were given this and other accolades, e.g., Olympic gold medals. I suspect that many recipient bureaucrats and military personnel are non-notable beneficiaries of insider reward systems—as against outsiders who need to perform more exceptional deeds to attract recognition. Be that as it may, I propose that we NOT consider anything less than the AO ranking as sufficiently notable in itself. Bjenks (talk) 02:37, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with this 100%.

The answer is definitely no, although AC definitely would be and AO probably. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:54, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Insufficient notability established. Bjenks (talk) 02:37, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, just. He's pretty close, but not quite there. Frickeg (talk) 00:09, 7 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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