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The result was keep. ( non-admin closure) – Davey2010 • (talk) 21:46, 14 August 2014 (UTC) reply

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Clear vanity article with most of the text added by the subject, though well-sourced, not notable enough to warrant a wikipedia article Uberphail ( talk) 10:30, 7 August 2014 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 01:22, 8 August 2014 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 01:22, 8 August 2014 (UTC) reply

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• Delete Wikipedia is not a place for people to post autobiographies. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 02:31, 10 August 2014 (UTC) reply
• Keep - He's been the UK Representative of the Government of Gibraltar since 1988. The subject has an OBE which isn't insignicant but crucially has an entry in Who's Who; [1]. This means he's been judged as notable by the experts at Oxford University Press. I wish people would check the obvious places WP:BEFORE. Barney the barney barney ( talk) 11:41, 10 August 2014 (UTC) reply
• Keep - So far as I can tell, the nominator is under a mizapprehension - the profile and interests of the main contributor to the article, who obviously has some interest in Gibraltar but whose main interest seems to be in Brazilian articles on Portuguese Wikipedia, simply don't match those of the subject of the article, a Gibraltarian born in Northern Ireland and who is a long-term British resident. The article itself seems reliably referenced, and while the subject is fairly obviously only modestly notable in Britain, he is equally obviously highly notable in Gibraltar. This is not entirely surprising - the position of representative of a colony to its colonising power tends to be an influential one back in the colony, and particularly when, as in this case, the representative has been in post for 25 years. PWilkinson ( talk) 20:30, 10 August 2014 (UTC) reply
• Keep. The points made by Barney and PWilkinson are overwhelmingly strong. To them I would add that there appears to be significant coverage of the subject and his position, such as [2]. There are one or two peacocky sentences in the article that should be fixed, but nothing unsalvageable. -- Mkativerata ( talk) 20:30, 12 August 2014 (UTC) reply

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