User talk:Caledonia123

James Kay Ronald (RAF Officer)
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I'm afraid you ahven't quite understood how the category system works. First of all there needs to be an article on the person (categories are not intended to be an exhaustive list, they categorise existing articles, rather than attempting to record every person or whatever that might conceivably fall into that category). The article is then placed into the category by adding the code to the article. Before creating the article, be sure that the subject meets Wikipedia's notability requirements (those specifically relating to military figures contained in WP:MILMOS are probably also relavent). Whilst the DFC is an important decoration, many thousands have been awarded, and so the fact that an RAF officer has received this decoration alone is not sufficient to make him notable (only the VC and GC are held to do this), if he played a notable role in a major conflict, reached high rank or is also notable in some other field then it will be suitable to create an article. If you give me some more information I can help you further if it seems likely that he really is notable. David Underdown (talk) 14:54, 6 January 2009 (UTC)