Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Douglas-Home

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 of the debate was keep. - Mailer Diablo 18:50, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mark Douglas-Home

Article on semi-obscure individual which amusingly reads as a press release of his departure of his previous job. The google test on "Mark Douglas-Home" lists 256 results, including wikipedia and not related entries. Mecanismo | Talk 17:13, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep pending input from British wikipedians. Douglas-Home was editor of the Glasgow Herald for five years, and figures in the ongoing upheaval in Scottish media. Probably deserves a page as much as Howell Raines. [1] -- JJay 20:47, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Alec Douglas-Home Jcuk 21:58, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Newspaper editor. Golfcam 03:24, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Jjay. Stifle 00:59, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Very poor article at the moment, but definitely notable. Maccoinnich 21:48, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep National newspaper editors, especially long-serving ones, are notable.--Mais oui! 22:27, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep notable enough by far -Doc ^ask? 22:55, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, the editor of a notable newspaper for a crucial period of its history, and seems to be an all round journo-highheidyin to boot. Article improving nicely. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:05, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I cannot believe an editor of a national newspaper is an AFD. If the article reads POV as a press release or a resumé then this can be rectified through the editing process. (I have already begun the process by removing a bit of the yay-for-the-Herald language, but if anyone else can do more, that would be much appreciated. I have done the same to the article on The Herald.) I'd also like to ask, since when did a Google search on a *print publication* demarcate notability? Would it not make more sense to research the impact of the Herald in print (and to a lesser extent its own website)? Nach0king 00:57, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Notable editor of notable national newspapers. Why is this on AfD? --Cactus.man ✍ 09:55, 28 December 2005 (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.