Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alec Coryton

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Alec Coryton
Weighing in with 17 unique google hits, does this figure exceed "the bar" of notability? Please discuss amongst yourselves. GRider\talk 00:48, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep at least for the moment. It depends on what he did during the war and as the top ranked officer in the RAF whether it is worth keeping. Article needs working on though. Nashikawa 01:17, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Top ranked officers in the RAF, especially during wartime. Kappa 04:43, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Stub makes him seem like a noteworthy person. Tygar 09:45, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Senior officer (second highest rank in the RAF) holding several senior positions. Looks notable to me. Can't see why it was listed. -- Necrothesp 16:03, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. You get more hits if you search for 'Air Chief/Vice Marshal/Marshall Coryton', as I'm sure people underneath him didn't use his first name. One hit for 'Alex Coryton' as well. One of the dusty, unremarked, anonymous figures from history who held an extremely senior job with huge responsibility, whose policies no doubt contributed to the actual death of real human beings, friend and foe alike, and who now exists almost solely as a footnote in dusty old encyclopaedias (the archetypal example being US President James K Polk). -Ashley Pomeroy 17:34, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Article definitely needs work, but even more definitely keepworthy. DS 15:06, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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