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Proposed deletion of Alex Greenwood (British Army officer)


The article Alex Greenwood (British Army officer) has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern:
 * Not seeing anything to make him notable. Fails WP:SOLDIER and reads like a memorial - see WP:NOTMEMORIAL

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Gbawden (talk) 11:18, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

The answer to the question above is that this man was a top official in British India. That matters to over a billion people. Perhaps your viewpoint is blind to the East? On top of that, he was as a major strategist against a very real, whether perceived or actual, threat of communist/left-wing dictatorship in the United Kingdom at the time. That is a major, if unusued and unusual, bullwark in the protection of the British public from major threats that were the salt of British Cold War history. If you were around at the time in Britain, what was being done by the Generals behind the scenes to ensure the protection of those who were genuinely afraid of the Communist threat in Britain was a big deal, and people used to talk about it. That matters. That very communist threat, by the way, still exists in a substantially less dangerous form today - see Jeremy Corbyn. It is still relevant, all these years later. I simply can't think why this wouldn't be relevant, unless you are reading this from the perspective of a socialist trying to use political correctness or whatever new framework you've come up with to shut down free speech and book burn key figures in the history of humanity against socialism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.101.151.159 (talk) 10:07, 16 June 2017 (UTC)