Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Keith Smith (engineer)


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The result was   keep. Courcelles (talk) 06:30, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Keith Smith (engineer)

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Fails the notability requirements for BLP. Checking in Google Books only reveals obscure mentions rather than something to demonstrate significant impact. There have been a few contributors over six months (and this is a topic with some enthusiasts about) so raising for discussion as an expert may disagree. Fæ (talk) 12:16, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete: I can't find significant coverage for this person. Joe Chill (talk) 02:02, 30 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep Keith Smith was an important figure on the Commonwealth Railways, being the engineer at the time of the improvised Piggyback operation on the Leigh Creek to Port Augusta line, something which is of great interest to today's African railways seeking to overcome the present break-of-gauge difficulty. He later became commissioner.  He wrote an autobiography, and there are a number of worthy articles written in pre-internet magazines about him (am in process to obtain copies of such articles, Australian Railway History and Railway Transportation http://home.iprimus.com.au/bexleyboy/arhs/rt.htm.)    Tabletop (talk) 02:23, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * See Railway Transportation August 1957, "Unique Piggy-back Operations at Stirling North".
 * A few magazine references would probably be sufficient. Obviously if there were any book sources then this would be a far more convincing way of demonstrating notability. Fæ (talk) 07:34, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:18, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - Clearly an important person in respect of the history of Australian Railways. I have just added a number of links to the article, which should clarify the issue.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:48, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Keep The current sources are sufficient.    DGG ( talk ) 01:04, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Figure of sufficient historical stature. Information presented may be of some use to future users. Carrite (talk) 15:02, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Some phots can be found.   Tabletop (talk) 08:19, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Significant coverage in more than one reliable source. Needs some of the OR pruning, but notable enough under WP:BLP and WP:GNG to warrant inclusion. Alzarian16 (talk) 20:56, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep He was awarded an OBE in 1970 for his work as Commissioner of the Commonwealth Railways, so I would say his work did have significant impact as to warrant a high-level civil honour. --Canley (talk) 03:55, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
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