Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/C. K. Rhodes


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The result was   keep. But please, this article requires some urgent love and attention. Lankiveil (speak to me) 12:42, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

C. K. Rhodes

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A captain in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers during World War I and expanded a golf course. References are related to normal events... marriage, college, promotion and death. Bgwhite (talk) 05:24, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete, fails WP:GNG.TheLongTone (talk) 21:44, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
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 * Strong keep WP:AFD is not cleanup. He was a fairly high ranking civil servant in the Indian Civil Service, and was Joint Secretary to the Home Department. He was awarded the CIE (i.e. Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire), which is equivalent to a CBE.  We always keep CBEs.  He's in Who's Who (indicating that professional experts on notability considered him notable).  I have previously commented that the competency of the editors of Who's Who is massively better than the cack-handed efforts of certain Wikipedians. Barney the barney barney (talk) 08:13, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Please mind comments about contributor behavior, and discuss instead the content. - The Bushranger One ping only 12:53, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Really? I did discuss the content - which is more than the nominator. The comments were general rather than specific in nature.  But let's have a look specifically at this nomination, since you brought it up - The nominator apparently failed to understand what CIE is, or why he would be awarded it (granted the article has been written by someone equally clueless and doesn't do anything to help explain this); then failed to do background research to understand what ICS and Order of the Indian Empire are, failed to look up in either Who's Who and The Times archive (which is WP:BEFORE) and then nominated it with a clear level of sarcasm about that is more offensive than any reasonable comment on the general lack of competence of ham-fisted amateurs, and got one sheep delete vote. Barney the barney barney (talk) 12:56, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. Yes, the CIE (which actually ranks two levels above the CBE in the order of precedence) is one of those awards that is considered to meet criterion #1 of WP:ANYBIO. -- Necrothesp (talk) 00:51, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep -- The problem with the article is that it says far too little about his career as opposed to his golf. Tag as a stub.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:34, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
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