Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ian G. Walker

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Keep. --Daniel Olsen 18:27, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ian G. Walker

del. nonnotbale. Direcotr here, director there. No notable achievements. Mukadderat 17:52, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete - notability is doubtful, and references provided in the article appear to be books by the article's subject (hardly independeny sources). -- Whpq 20:18, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep - after the corrections on the references -- Whpq 14:18, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Retain. May not be an absolute leader in his field, but the breadth of achievement is sound. Can't delete all OBEs and MBEs. Amy Crescenzo 15:51, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, KrakatoaKatie 02:49, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, fails WP:BIO. The Google test for ian.g.walker -wikipedia site:uk yields one primary source result. --Dhartung | Talk 06:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, fails WP:BIO per Dhartung. --Arnzy (talk ·  contribs) 07:30, 5 November 2006 (UTC) Change to keep after proper sources found. --Arnzy (talk ·  contribs) 22:47, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. "He won his OBE in the Queen's Honours list for his work with the disadvantaged children of South Yorkshire." sounds like a pretty good claim for notability. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 08:11, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment. Also a published author (see list of publications in the article). I couldn't find reviews for his books, but some might be found using different search databases. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 08:57, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment One of the papers attributed to the subject was done so in error. I have removed the paper from the Publications section. Please see the Discussion page for more details. Caknuck 09:34, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep per TruthbringerToronto, notable/published. --Doc Tropics Message in a bottle 19:14, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep For crying out loud, he's an OBE? Any failure to meet WP:BIO must stem from lack of research rather than lack of sources. While I hope someone helps finding sources, in the meantime this is an obvious keep. JoshuaZ 06:48, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep -- I don't know how freely they give out OBE's and MBE's, but I don't need to reach that question because he's notable without those honors. JamesMLane t c 10:37, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.