Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Purdy


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The result was   delete. Consensus is that the article fails the notability guidelines. However it is a plausible redirect so will recreate the redirect after deleting the article. Davewild (talk) 17:04, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Michael Purdy

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I am not convinced that this gentleman's achievements meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline(WP:N) or the notability guideline for biographies (WP:BIO). His naval career was fairly insignificant, with command of only three minor warships and a sail training ship, and no senior positions. Of the two sailing competitions the article claims he has entered, he appears to have failed to win or place in either. I cannot find major reference to or use of the papers mentioned in the article

Of the sources currently in the article (I stripped out a few that were basically "external wikilinks" or deadlinks - see for the changes I've made to the artcle prior to nominating), one is a primary source (a scan of orders for the yacht Nirimba), while the other links directly to a discussion paper the article claims was influenced by him. Two of the deadlinks I've removed from the article also appeared to be primary sources: one to a conference that one of his papers was published at, the other to his "current" postion as head of the RAN's website team. Google Scholar searches for works by him is inconclusive... my search for the name plus a series of optional terms related to patrol boats or the navy comes up with 19 hits, but all of these appear to belong to G. Michael Purdy, a British oceanographer. Vanilla Google brings up a lot of hits for the name in quotemarks, but the name is common and none of the top 30 results appear to be this gentleman. Same reults for filtering Australia-only results, or with additional qualifiers like navy, Australia, or Armidale (the patrol boats he wrote about).

He looks like a man who does his job, and does his job well, but I'm not sure he meets the notability inclusion guidelines for Wikipedia. -- saberwyn 04:56, 1 September 2008 (UTC)


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 * Comment: If deleted, I would support a recreation as redirect to G. Michael Purdy as a plausibe search term. -- saberwyn 04:58, 1 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete - Non-notable per nom. Not sure why anyone would think this person is more notable than any other officer in the RAN.--Celtus (talk) 07:15, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect to G. Michael Purdy as above. While it appears he has conducted his duties during his career admirably, there is nothing to suggest that he's a particularly notable military officer.  Lankiveil (speak to me) 11:27, 1 September 2008 (UTC).
 * Delete non-notable -- Lester  12:42, 1 September 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.