Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Dickson MBE


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The result was   delete. j⚛e deckertalk 21:06, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

William Dickson MBE

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Non notable plastic surgeon. Being awarded an MBE is not enough Gbawden (talk) 11:35, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.  Jinkinson   talk to me  11:43, 14 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep WP:ANYBIO states differently. And expands with refs.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 18:05, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete ANYBIO says "a well-known and significant award or honor." Getting an MBE certainly helps. But some honor handed out en masse by one particular leader in one country is not automatically "significant." This appears to be a less exclusive honor than several related ones. The relevant article indicates there is no stated limit to how many MBEs can be awarded in a given year. Have any such honors been handed out to persons for things other than great achievements, such as to curry political favor, or to a friend of no particular accomplishments? What if the leader of any other country of population 60 something million handed out an honor to someone. Automatically notable as well? We should not hand over the keys to Wikipedia notability to any one national leader with a box full of ribbons to hand out each year.  There should still be reliable sources to satisfy WP:BIO.  Edison (talk) 19:51, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Which this does.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 19:55, 14 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment See also: See also Kentucky Colonel, Order of the Long Leaf Pine, Order of the Palmetto, Rhode Island Commodore,Sagamore of the Wabash. All recipients automatically notable?  Why should there be British Exceptionalism when it comes to honors? Edison (talk) 19:58, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - while I am in favour of medical biographies generally, and it is an area in which we are lacking, we tend to stick to very senior doctors only, and I don't find that this gentleman has (yet) reached that stage. The sourcing is presently insufficient for a BLP.  The general consensus is that MBEs are worthy but not Wikipedia-significant (unless they've played professional football); the response is "maybe, tell me more" to OBEs and we routinely keep CBEs and above. Barney the barney barney (talk) 23:26, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
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