Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rob Atkinson (surgeon)


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The result was   keep. JohnCD (talk) 18:02, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Rob Atkinson (surgeon)

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Questionable noteability created for an election candidate prior to an election along with Bill Denny (officer). They also seem to have been created by an editor with potential for WP:COI (based on timing, their userpage content, these are the only two articles the user has created so far, and user's own photos used in the articles). Timeshift (talk) 02:32, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep: there seems to be a sufficient amount of sources to establish notability. Creation before an election I don't find too much of a coincidence. Should Barack Obama not have had an article prior to the 2008 election, would its creation be questioned? Rusted AutoParts 03:22, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Number of sources and noteability are different. Barack Obama was a Senator prior to being elected President and always have more than enough noteability prior to being President. Timeshift (talk) 03:24, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. - The Bushranger One ping only 13:40, 28 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete Candiates for offices at the level he is a candidate are not notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:44, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * And his candidacy is irrelevant to his notability, which is otherwise established. - The Bushranger One ping only 13:40, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. He has a relatively minor claim to notability seperate to being an election candidate, and stands zero chance of election so isn't notable for that either. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 05:55, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. Yes, the candidature is non-notable soap, so I edited that section out. Provided it stays that way, I have no problem about a distinguished member of the Order of Australia being listed in Wikipedia. Incidentally, I don't live in South Australia and have no interest of any kind in the outcome of any election there. Bjenks (talk) 08:46, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. As a brigadier, he meets WP:SOLDIER, a standard for inclusion of military biographies which, while not actually a guideline, is widely accepted within the military history editing community on Wikipedia. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:50, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 12:50, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 12:50, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 12:50, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 12:58, 28 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep - Brigadier generals are, by consensus, considered to be notable. - The Bushranger One ping only 13:40, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep - notable as a soldier as above, and also it seems as an author, although only to a marginal extent. Orderinchaos 17:11, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:SOLDIER (although it would be nice if somewhere on that page there could be a quick run-down of the ranks that qualify under #3). The article as it stands is in fairly good shape too. Frickeg (talk) 00:11, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep - notability is obvious in several fields; e.g. AM citation: For service to medicine as an orthopaedic surgeon and through contributions to professional associations. If candidature causes people to write good quality bios for Wikipedia, then I wish there was more of it! Pdfpdf (talk) 04:46, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
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