Talk:Richard de Crespigny

This article was nominated for deletion on 25 July 2014. The result of the discussion was Redirect to Qantas Flight 32.

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I noticed that this was a redirect and acording to the page history had been previously deleted/redirected. However, it was very obvious from the page history what a terribly constructed article the deleted version was. There is no doubt in my mind that if the article were written properly such thing would not have happened. de Crespigny's notability is on par with that of Sully and Al Haynes (he was even deemed "The Australian Sully" in the media) and he has received continued media coverage well after the QF32 and after the deletion due to the release of his book and other contributions to aviation. I intend to expand and improve the article over the next few weeks, please do not automatically redirect this just because the old crappy version that did not provide any sources to prove notability (although many such sources exist and are being incorporated into the article) was redirected.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 23:16, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]