Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Livingstone Robe

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The result was keep. A full DNB entry is lways notability, no other conclusion is possible. Snow. DGG ( talk ) 08:42, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

William Livingstone Robe[edit]

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Not notable. Some random Lieutenant who was at some famous battles MayVenn (talk) 01:55, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Jinkinson talk to me 02:09, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This user clearly has some sort of axe to grind with me (!), and has been nominating a lot of clearly notable articles I created or had something to do with. This one deserves a more detailed reply, though. I'd expect people to argue for merging to William Robe (his father's article), but I won't agree with them. We usually consider an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography, from which this article was copied, to be evidence of notability—because the DNB editors decided that the person was notable enough to include by their fairly stringent standards. This officer only had a subarticle in his father's longer article, also ported into Wikipedia. However, this subarticle is pretty long; it's long enough to create the short Wikipedia article that exists, and would be too long and detailed at his father's article. Considering this length and its content, I think this means the DNB entry confers notability on him. In addition, he received the Army Gold Medal twice, in recognition of distinguished command at a level equivalent to battalion commander, which I would believe meets WP:SOLDIER, similarly to two DSOs. —innotata 03:24, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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