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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allen Clarke (educationalist)

: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. Withdrawn by nominator (myself) due to subsequent improvements. The article now establishes notability, and is well written. (non-admin closure) Flewis(talk) 04:43, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

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Non notable character. No inline citations or external links for WP:V. No inbound article links either. The text within the article also lacks context. Flewis(talk) 12:08, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

  • Comment - A google search provided me with these to links: (both obituaries) [http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/aug/25/guardianobituaries.obituaries?commentpage=1] [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/WORLD-OBITS/2007-07/1185190393], however 2 external links alone do not assert notability. --Flewis(talk) 12:13, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep Unless the article is a hoax (and I don't think so) he is certainly notable enough. Sources could probably be found in a British library. The article could use a slightly more neutral view, but still is informative. Northwestgnome (talk) 12:57, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep All above comments are now fixed. Bletchley (talk) 13:18, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete Not notable. Eatabullet (talk) 13:31, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

:Elaborate a little more, please. RockManQ (talk) 15:28, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

  • Keep. The references establish notability. -- Eastmain (talk) 16:57, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep.The obits decisively establish notability.John Z (talk) 20:12, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Sorry about that, I just don't like it when people arbitrarily determine an article to be simply "not-notable". Guess I'm being a little picky. While I'm here though Keep; the verifiable references establish the notability of the article. RockManQ (talk) 01:20, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

:[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allen_Clarke_(educationalist)&oldid=244974101 This] is what the article looked like when I tagged it for afd. --Flewis(talk) 04:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

  • Keep Sources establish notability. Edward321 (talk) 01:55, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 03:35, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep Headmaster of Holland Park is notable, as for any other truly famous school. The founding headmaster is more than just notable, but a key figure in modern education. and obits in The Times remains accepted as sufficient by themselves for notability. At the time of nomination, that and other refs were not yet in the article, but nominating new articles for deletion only 5 minutes after their start without doing the most superficial check for notability is unconstructive. DGG (talk) 03:40, 14 October 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.