Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Ritchie
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The result was withdrawn. — Timneu22 · talk 21:01, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
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In a nutshell: there is one article about this guy. I don't see how he's notable, significant, or important. — Timneu22 · talk 19:27, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
- Keep Not everyone gets a Medal of the Order of Australia --CatholicW (talk) 19:29, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
- What else can the article say? It's always going to be small... hey, this guy won a thing. He used to have blah job. Is that really worthy of inclusion? It seems it would be better to just have people listed here or elsewhere. — Timneu22 · talk 20:09, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
- Keep Sure, saving lives is unimportant and insignificant, and getting a medal for it only adds to its triviality. True, there is one article about this guy. And another and another and another and others. Now if he had played pro ball, that would be notable. Mandsford 19:38, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:48, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:49, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
- Keep Saving over 160 lives and being recognised with a national award smacks of notability. Especially when there is significant international coverage of his exploits to boot. --Mkativerata (talk) 20:00, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
- Keep Oops, I was the one who tagged it for speedy deletion. I forgot to read WP:ANYBIO at the time of this revision. He has won an award, and that explains why he is notable. The article improvement has a reference now which backs up most important point. Minimac (talk) 20:18, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
- Keep: Passes WP:BIO. Joe Chill (talk) 20:54, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
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