Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Guy (Executive Director)

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The result was keep. -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 09:23, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Guy (Executive Director)[edit]

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Non notable ex-Royal Navy officer and now businessman. Fails WP:BASIC and WP:MILPEOPLE NtheP (talk) 13:51, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

~~Delete~~. Notability not established. Appears to be a vanity article (not necessarily written by the gentleman himself). --Quartermaster (talk) 14:48, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Changed to Keep I have verified that Robert Lincoln Guy (b. 1947) is in Who's Who from 1982-1987 (using the Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI). Searching teh Google for the phrase "Robert Lincoln Guy" turns up what appears to be a passingly prestigious award from the Japanese Government. The article needs some work (such as including some of the information in this note - I'm feeling peckishly lazy on this warm Friday in St. Louis - such as middle name, year of birth, etc.) So, I am flipping my flop from delete to keep. --Quartermaster (talk) 15:27, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Equerry to the Queen appears to be a notable office, as evidenced by the listing of notable officeholders at Equerry#Equerries_to_the_British_Monarch. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 18:40, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:11, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:11, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Personal bio that fails to demonstrate notability. Carrite (talk) 00:54, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - One article from the Japan Times does not lead to notability, I can't find any other sources. Not sure that Equerry to QEII gives notability. Looking through that list suggests a lot more names should be here too, they're generally poorly sourced. Bigger digger (talk) 02:55, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Change to Keep. Suggest a move to Robert L. Guy. Thanks to the changes I think this just about scrapes by. I might swing by and sort out those WP:ELs soon though...Quartermaster, I think "peckishly lazy" is the phrase my constant state of being has been waiting for, thanks! Bigger digger (talk) 15:58, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - There has been a misunderstanding. The first entry on Robert Guy - 'Robert Guy (Royal Navy)', has been written by an unauthorised person and was inaccurate. It has been on Wiki for the last 4-5 years or so. We have corrected the mistakes and wanted to edit the old entry but were unable to and in the end the entry got deleted by the admins, saying the man himself is not notable. So the only thing I do not understand is the entry has been accepted in the first place and has been on wikipedia for many years (none of you during this period of time said he was not notable enough to be on here), and when we try to edit it and CORRECT some major mistakes, you delete it and say he is not notable enough. Please see [Hullaballoo Wolfowitz|talk] post above, in Britain being Equerry to the Queen is regarded as very notable.[[[User:Sujingyun|Sujingyun]] (talk) 16:49, 2 September 2010 (UTC)][reply]

Carefully follow Wikipedia:Notability_(people) and ensure the article addresses its requirements. At the moment, the only in depth coverage is the Japan Times article, but there needs to be more. I googled to the best of my abilities but couldn't find anything else. If you can suitably reference his entry in Who's Who and find a bit more info I would be happy to reconsider my position. Also, there's no such thing as "an unauthorised person" in terms of wikipedia editors. Bigger digger (talk) 17:50, 2 September 2010 (UTC) - Struck following article development. Bigger digger (talk) 15:58, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment An article on this person has twice been speeedily deleted (once in Jan 2010 and again in August 2010) under A7. It now appears to rest solely on notable because of one position held namely being an equerry to HM the Queen. I don't think that having held that role is enough to make a person notable. NtheP (talk) 20:42, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a new reference from the 'Who's Who 2009'. To our knowledge Robert has been in the 'Who's Who' since 1981.[[[User:Sujingyun|Sujingyun]] (talk) 14:53, 3 September 2010 (UTC)][reply]

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