Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Alleyne

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The result was Non-Admin Speedy Keep by original nominator. Bongomatic (talk) 12:49, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

George Alleyne

The only potential assertion of notability for the subject is that he is the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean region. The question (and it's genuinely a question on the part of the submitter of this AfD nomination) is whether this role-based claim of notability is sufficient to meet Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Diplomats, which is for "diplomats who have participated in a significant way in events of particular diplomatic importance that have been written about in reliable secondary sources."

It doesn't seem to me that that is asserted, but if there's a consensus to the contrary, let me know. Bongomatic (talk) 09:08, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Strong keep - I added references that state he was awarded the Knight Bachelor and Order of the Caribbean Community. The latter is "the highest honor that can be conferred on a Caribbean national" and would constitute a definite claim to notability. Pegasus «C¦T» 09:25, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Article clearly states notability and the person is notable enough to warrant their own article, as pointed out above as well. So Why 11:12, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, director of PAHO is one position that indicates notability. --Soman (talk) 11:13, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep: The whole article seems to constitute various assertions of notability (this one is quite impressive: "He was made Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990, and awarded the Order of the Caribbean Community in 2001"). Cosmic Latte (talk) 11:51, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:10, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. In addition to the comments above, there is also significant amount of newscoverage of him, 372 hits in googlenews[1], quite a bit of it specific and detailed (I have added a few such refs to the article). He is also the Chancellor of the UWI system since 2002 (also ref added) and thus arguably passes criterion 6 of WP:PROF. In any case, enough coverage here to pass WP:BIO, both under its general provisions and under the specific provisions for diplomats (he was a rather senior one). To the nom: please do a few quick googlesearches (such as googlenews, googlebooks and googlescholar) before listing for an AfD; it takes less time to do these searches than to do an AfD nomination and everybody is spared from an AfD debate that is likely to be closed as a WP:SNOW keep. Nsk92 (talk) 23:24, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:04, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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.