Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Owen Spencer-Thomas

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The result was delete per WP:SNOW. bd2412 T 18:52, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Owen Spencer-Thomas[edit]

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Not seeing enough in the article or through searching online to pass WP:GNG. An MBE is a fairly minor award. Edwardx (talk) 17:22, 14 October 2019 (UTC) Edwardx (talk) 17:22, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. IntoThinAir (talk) 17:29, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I searched, and I did not find.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 18:37, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete a non-notable broadcast journalist.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:23, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete As above.Dreamwoven (talk) 08:48, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. Sources are trivial and rarely independent. Guy (help!) 21:38, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:SNOW. His work is laudable - although many people have now worked on autism issues. His MBE is the lowest level of the OBE. He's not, as far as I can tell, an archdeacon or bishop, which would give him automatic notability as a clergyman in the Anglican Communion - according to my searches, he's a priest and honorary canon, the latter a title given to long-serving clergy. Bearian (talk) 21:51, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete I searched, and I found: a profile in a local paper, the Kensington Post, from 1972, when he was appointed to his first church (some useful bio info); confirmation from TV listings that he was interviewing clerics on Southern ITV in 1977 and 1978, and from an announcement of changed positions that he was at ITV Anglia News in Bedfordshire from 1978-1985, and then moved to their news centre at Northampton. He was still with ITV Anglia in 1998, as this article [1] says "Watch an archive report from the About Anglia programme in 1998 by Owen Spencer Thomas". A History of BBC London 94.9 [2] calls him "the legendary religious broadcaster Owen Spencer-Thomas" who devised and presented the first BBC phone-in program, where listeners "suggested hymns that would be played impromptu live on-air by a Salvation Army brass band in the studio. The programme was so popular it eventually moved to Radio 2 and was presented by Gloria Hunniford." Unfortunately, as that's saying he worked for the BBC and it's the BBC writing that, it's not independent. Also, a Church Times mention of his MBE [3]. So, unless and until someone writes about his religious or other broadcasting, it appears that he does not meet any notability guidelines. RebeccaGreen (talk) 16:09, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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