Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harry Leslie Brown

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The result was delete. Black Kite (talk) 00:56, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

Harry Leslie Brown

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Fails WP:BIO. Diplomats are not inherently notable, being from a "major country" does not add to notability.

For same reason I am also nominating:

• Jacques Bélec

LibStar (talk) 15:37, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bilateral relations-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:16, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

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• Delete Not Notable--C E (talk) 16:47, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
• Keep. He was profiled in the Ottawa Journal in 1963[1]; his papers are deemed important enough to be stored in the national archive[2]; he's included in an (independently published) Who's Who; he was awarded a Canadian Centennial Medal. Note: when searching for him, it appears he went by "Leslie Brown" or "H. Leslie Brown." Pburka (talk) 18:20, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

I don't think a medal given to 30,000 gives inherent notability. LibStar (talk) 14:16, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Agreed, and if that were the only evidence of notability I wouldn't say keep. But the significant coverage in reliable sources is evidence of notability. I suspect that more coverage exists, but indexing of newspapers from the 1950s and 1960s is spotty at best. Pburka (talk) 21:38, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

• Delete One profile in a small newspaper does not make a person notable. Mistakin (talk) 12:22, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

The Ottawa Journal is not a "small" newspaper — it was one of the two dominant dailies in the city until its closure, and fully satisfies our standards for reliable sourcing. Bearcat (talk) 14:39, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

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