305:, how are you going to rehab it? Do you know the gentleman personally? Did you work with him, as a diplomat or a journalist and you know how he achieved outstanding notability? I mean, if he managed to convince his government, say, to the necessity of the Queen to realise a state visit to Turkey, for instance, after 20 or 25 years? Well, if that professional success was not reflected in the media, it still does not help us. Or he simply did his job to receive and send delegations, organize receptions etc? Those receptions would certainly be covered by the socıety pages of the press, at least in the capital that he served but that kind of news do not really help us establish notability. They dont even help to verify that the person exists, because we have no doubt about that. There are official CVs (of him also) everywhere in the internet. (The user whose primary mission in WP is to follow me everywhere in WP -I guess to prevent me from destroying it suddenly- has found a very good one.) Indeed we call these articles BLP but in fact we dont make simple biographies. There are specialized biography sites in the web, people come to us to see an academic approach, as this is an encyclopedia. I am not sure if I could explain it well enough so I will summarise. We are sure about the existence of Mr Baird. Personally I am also sure he made a good job here (I live in Ankara). But that was his job. I need to see if he did smth outstanding and that was not kept in the secret archives or known only by personal contacts but also has been reflected in reliable (written) sources. Got anything? Then we dont need to wait for deletion, the article is all yours to rehab it. Thanks for that. Regards. --
432:#1 on their own! We have long established that anything over a CBE is sufficient. These honours aren't given out in cornflakes boxes. If he is notable enough to have these awards (for actually doing something constructive as opposed to just being alive) he is easily notable enough for the minor celebrity fest that is Knowledge. And naturally, he does have an entry in
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