Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter Beveridge (diver)


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The result was withdrawn. ✗ plicit  14:16, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Peter Beveridge (diver)

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This article lacks any sources, and my search of google and google books turned up no addtional sources about this person. John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:23, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. I was not able to find any coverage of Beveridge. BeanieFan11 (talk) 14:47, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment A quick search in Google books for "Peter Beveridge 1899" turned up a book called "The Guv'nors: Ten of Scotland Yard's Greatest Detectives" which includes a chapter on a Peter Beveridge. Our page lists Beveridge's date of birth as "25 June 1899" but the book has Beveridge as being born "26 June 1899", so an argument could be made that this is a different Peter Beveridge. Polycarpa aurata (talk) 23:19, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Is there any evidence that that Beveridge was involved in sporting competition as described in this article?John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:14, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople and England.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 06:46, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment. Looks like it may well be the same bloke. Same middle initial (that's confirmed by mentions of the diver in The Times as P H Beveridge). If so, he's probably notable as there seems to be plenty of coverage in print sources and he commanded the Flying Squad at the time of the Great Train Robbery. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:38, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 12:38, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment keep if the page is about the Met Police officer but I can't find any reference to him being a diver, there was a diver that I found in the British Newspaper Archive who seems to have done diving shows in the late 1930s. The Police Officer was Peter Henderson Beveridge, born 25 June 1899 in Scotland and died 6 Jan 1977 in Scotland. He was awarded an MBE in 1947. There's an image of his gravestone on FindAGrave. An obituary in the Reading Evening Post described him as a "crack Scotland Yard detective" who was involved in a number of high-profile murder cases. Piecesofuk (talk) 14:10, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment may be a WP:GNG-point if it's the same man.
 * I think we need to figure out two things. A-was the police person involved in diving? 2-if he was, I think we should still probably rename the article because his diving is not the main source of his notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:11, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Withdraw I think we have enough evidence to show this is the same person as the police officer being covered, and I think we have enough evidence to show that that officer was notable. We probably should add some of these sources and rename the article to better reflect what he was notable for, but those are matters beyond the scope of AfD.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:16, 15 June 2022 (UTC)


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