Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert C. Davie


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The result was   delete. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  23:57, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Robert C. Davie

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Flunks WP:BIO. Google books result turns up nothing notable. The one reference in the article leads to a web page that only makes mention of Davie in passing in the context of the 136th Finance Detachment, which has no article. His 1997 death passed unnoticed by the New York Times. THF (talk) 16:24, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I removed the prod, then spent a while rewriting the article to better show notability... during which time the AfD was constructed. Have a look. DS (talk) 17:13, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The article is substantially better (though the opening sentence seems like Wikipuffery to establish notability; I've added a fact tag). But I'm not persuaded that Davie doesn't flunk WP:BIO.  There are over a million U.S. soldiers who won the Bronze Star, and I don't support creating a million orphan articles for each of them. THF (talk) 18:28, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Could you assign some inline citations please. I haven't decided on this myself yet, but a common mistake made with articles about veterans is that people assume their claim to notability is based on what award they've received. Their notability is in fact based on various actions they've made in life that may or may not have occured on the battlefield. Ryan 4314   (talk) 19:47, 16 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:18, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:18, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Nick-D (talk) 22:58, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: also per the nom's searching. Ryan 4314   (talk) 09:30, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:NOTE. Abraham, B.S. (talk) 07:14, 18 January 2009 (UTC)


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