Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Wood (lawyer)


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Logan Talk Contributions 00:03, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Michael Wood (lawyer)

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Article is about a lawyer who received some media attention as a result of a single event (giving evidence to the Iraq Inquiry), but is otherwise a non-notable lawyer. Iftelse (talk) 18:47, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep More importantly, he's one of the 34 members elected to the International Law Commission by the United Nations General Assembly. While I suspect that someone will argue that WP:POLITICIAN gives a free pass to state legislators but was not intended to include UN officials, there's no comparison between my local state rep and the persons who hammer out the details of international law documents before they're submitted to the world's nations, which would qualify under WP:BIO if nothing else.  As with the members of the Federal Reserve Board, these individuals don't get much coverage, but I'd say that he and others would fall under the category of "Politicians... who have held international office".  To interpret it as not including members of UN bodies would seem to be contrary to the purpose of favoring holders of an international office.  Mandsford 20:41, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
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 * Keep per the above and also because the chief lawyer to the UK's diplomatic service is the kind of position that should confer pretty much automatic notability. --Mkativerata (talk) 01:31, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep - judges and commissioners of significant UN bodies would pass WP:POLITICIAN. Bearian (talk) 17:02, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep per Mandsford, Mkativerata, and Bearian. Clearly, there is notability beyond a single event.--JayJasper (talk) 22:14, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
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