Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sir Alastair Dunnett

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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 Speedy keep. Nomination was not done properly. No one other than nom feels it should be deleted. SynergeticMaggot (talk) 01:32, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sir Alastair Dunnett

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Delete The article seems to have no importance. Thebluesharpdude (talk) 23:59, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Keep. Being the editor of a national newspaper is a pretty good assertion of importance and notability. I'd like to see more sources, but the thing's not a day old yet. Give it a little time. --lifebaka (Talk - Contribs) 00:02, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep passes WP:N; we just neeed to bring it up to code. Kimu 00:05, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Speedy keep editor of one of Scotland's major newspapers (The Scotsman) for 16 years or so; notable enough to merit his own entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, which doesn't accept just any ol' dead person. Room for expansion, clearly, but sufficiently notable. NB article is not yet tagged with notice of this discussion (I noticed this debate because I had the author's talk page watchlisted for reasons I forget) probably because Sir Alastair Dunnett is a redirect to Alastair Dunnett and Twinkle got confused when trying to tag the page. BencherliteTalk 00:08, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Speedy keep Well, i call it a snowball for all intents, but hey... subject was knighted (notable, QED), and the above added a strong reference to the article (point furthered). Notable. --Auto (talk / contribs) 00:28, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
    • Actually, the ODNB reference was in the article anyway - I highlighted it, rather than added it. BencherliteTalk 00:38, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep It's notable, does needs help though. Burner0718 JibbaJabba! 01:13, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep. Dunnett has a 1200 word article in the Oxford DNB! This is a stub that ought to be expanded if Wikipedia wants to be a serious encyclopedia. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 01:19, 13 March 2008 (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.