Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Murdo Maclean


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The result was keep. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 19:39, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Murdo Maclean

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Upper-level civil service functionary who was made a Knight Bachelor (lowest rank of honour) in the 2000 Birthday Honours and thus rated an entry in the UK Who's Who. None of these appear to be sufficient signs of notability for inclusion. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 18:19, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
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 * Comment I cannot find SIGCOV.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 01:42, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep: firstly, a knighthood is not the "lowest rank of honour", but it constitutes a fairly selective and prestigious type of state honour above a large number of other awards at companion, officer or member grade (e.g. the CBE, OBE and MBE). There are about 20 knights bachelor appointed in the twice-yearly honours lists out of a UK population of over 60 million people, and for that reason knighthoods are typically held to meet WP:ANYBIO#1. Aside from that, I've added further sources where he is the subject – two articles in The Times (one entirely about him and the other substantially so), plus discussion of his work in one of Andrew Marr's books; there is more still out there, according to Google searches, but I think this clearly passes notability threshold now. His entry in the UK version of Who's Who, which is selective, published by Oxford University Press and not a vanity publication, is further evidence of this (IMO very clear) notability. —Noswall59 (talk) 09:33, 20 November 2019 (UTC).
 * Keep. All knights are notable per WP:ANYBIO. We have always held that anyone who holds a CBE or above satisfies those criteria. If the nominator thinks a knighthood is the lowest rank in the honours system they clearly know absolutely nothing about the British honours system. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:35, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
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 * Keep per others. ミラP 01:29, 22 November 2019 (UTC)


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