Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard McNeil Henderson


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The result was keep. Eddie891 Talk Work 17:18, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Richard McNeil Henderson

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notability; can't even find birthdate in google Sbalfour (talk) 17:02, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
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 * Keep, passes WP:ANYBIO as a CBE, and WP:NPOLITICIAN as a member of a sub-national legislature (Legislative Council of Hong Kong). SailingInABathTub (talk) 21:51, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep, birth date not being found on Google does not have any relationship with notability. It is not found just because it's long time ago and people were not aware of that. The article does have a fair amount of sources. Per SailingInABathTub, it passes WP:ANYBIO.  Sun8908 &#8239;Talk 10:46, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  Sun8908 &#8239;Talk 10:47, 22 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep as per above comments. Underwaterbuffalo (talk) 11:04, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep clearly notably: awarded CBE, I've added birth/death dates from UK Who's Who entry Piecesofuk (talk) 17:37, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep; has clearly held WP:NPOL-passing political offices. The ability or inability to locate a person's birthdate in a Google search is entirely irrelevant to whether they're notable enough for a Wikipedia article or not. Firstly, notability is a question of being able to verify facts about a person's career, not of being able to verify their birthday per se — and secondly, we do not have any rule that our sources have to be web pages, but in fact we are allowed to cite print-only sources (such as books, archived newspaper or magazine articles, etc.). So, for both of those reasons, the inability to google a fact that isn't even central to our notability criteria in the first place is not in and of itself a deal breaker. Bearcat (talk) 15:15, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep reasonably prominent colonial administrator; member of colonial legislative body, passes NPOL. --Goldsztajn (talk) 02:28, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. Clearly passes both WP:ANYBIO #1 and WP:POLITICIAN. -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:13, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep AfD reason= "notability, can't even find birthdate in google" What the hell is that? The reason is very unclear !! Whatever, this topic clearly passes both WP:ANYBIO #1 and WP:POLITICIAN. No case was made for deletion and it will would hard to make one as well. What is the community value of these unresearched AfDs? VocalIndia (talk) 06:31, 27 March 2021 (UTC)


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