Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Barr (Canadian military)

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The result was Delete per discussion for failing notability and WP:V.. Shell ^babelfish 20:59, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] David Barr (Canadian military)

Non-notable. Michael Dorosh 05:20, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

• Weak keep. Perhaps we need separate notability standards for military personnel. TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 07:56, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per my nomination. Commanding a regiment should not alone be sufficient for notability, but that's a discussion best made by consensus - I'd suggest bringing up that point, Truthbringer, with the Military History Project, I'm sure they would appreciate your input.Michael Dorosh 13:36, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete If we let this page stay, then we'd have to let the million other people in militaries worldwide have their own pages. This should be moved to a userpage.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tyson Moore (talk • contribs). 18:16, 25 August 2006
• Strong Keep. Should we also delete the equivalent US military biography? Somehow I think that wouldn't even be a consideration. This person is notable as a senior officer in the Canadian Forces. NorthernThunder 22:46, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Nothing in the article suggests he's done anything notable, other than be named as "designate commander" of CSOR. Why is it you specifically feel he is notable? Simply because he is in the Canadian Forces with a rank higher than captain? I thought the reason we had notability requirements was to prevent every Tom, Dick and Harry from having an article. Can you cite a US "equivalent" article you feel is on a par with this one?Michael Dorosh^Talk 22:58, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

I am not familiar enough with the US military structure to know what the equivalent position is. NorthernThunder 00:30, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

That's not what I meant, sorry for the confusion. I meant can you cite an example of an article on a US officer such as the ones you listed as an example? You asked if we should delete similar US articles, but never gave an example of one. It is quite possible we should look at deleting them as well. Can you provide and example of one of the articles you were referring to?Michael Dorosh^Talk 01:30, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as insufficiently notable. No coverage from third-party sources per WP:V. --Satori Son 23:27, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge into Canadian Special Operations Forces Command ~ trialsanderrors 02:02, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

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