Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William David Allan
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[edit] William David Allan
Subject does not appear to meet notability requirements, I understand that London is a large and old city, but I do not think that confers automatic notability on ranking police officers. The officer in question appears to have worked hard and served his country, but as I understand the policies this is not enough to warrant an encylopedic entry. Dylan fan 23:17, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
- Delete as failing WP:BIO. No ex offico notability for third highest ranking police officer of London. There seems to be an effort to create articles on the entire London police upper hierarchy -see list on Assistant_Commissioner_of_Police_of_the_Metropolis. Good effort, but I'm don;t think all the articles have sufficient encyclopedic notability Bwithh 23:40, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
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- However, you will see that this officer was awarded an O.B.E.. Athough some cynics have described this as gong as on "Order bestowed to Everyone", it is actually hard to come by and indicates someone who is much-more than a time-server, as Dylan fan implies, on User:Necrothesp's Talk page . Perhaps the O.B.E. citation would bring more colour to the article. I suppose another test of notability could be whether anyone researching, say, "London: Crime and the Police response" could find the article immensely helpful in tieing up loose ends. === Vernon White (talk) 00:22, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
