Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leonard Rowland


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Enos733 (talk) 15:41, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Leonard Rowland

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Non-notable mayor of a Welsh town. A quick search in The Times digital archive brings up only one other hit besides the brief death notice (no obituary). Presumably, a local paper would have more coverage, but, nonetheless, consensus has generally been that being a mayor does not grant sufficient notability. Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 18:54, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 18:54, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Wales-related deletion discussions. Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 18:54, 30 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep. He was knighted. This clearly meets the criteria of WP:ANYBIO #1. The consensus that it does is clearly illustrated here; no person with a modern knighthood has ever been deleted at AfD. If the British state considered him notable enough to be knighted in the modern era, when knighthoods are not that common (only about 100 people a year in the 1920s, in a country of many millions), then who are we at Wikipedia to decide he is not notable enough for a project that includes myriad people who would never come close to receiving such a high honour? -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:29, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep Has an entry in UK Who's Who https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U216491 Piecesofuk (talk) 15:12, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep per past outcomes. We have tended to keep persons who were CBE. Bearian (talk) 00:36, 8 July 2021 (UTC)


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