Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sandy Phillips

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The result was delete. Sandstein 06:56, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sandy Phillips

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Non-notable school headmaster. No achievements disclosed. Part of a series of spam articles by Castlemate (talk · contribs) whose primary work is to flood WP with articles on people from Newington College such as generic artists such as Ian Porter (commercial artist), members of social clubs such as Deuchar Gordon, and generic public servants such as Warwick Cathro, and local council members such as Aubrey Murphy (mayor).— Preceding unsigned comment added by Adsfvdf54gbb (talk • contribs)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Longhair\^talk 02:31, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - fails WP:GNG and WP:ACADEMIC. Not notable. -- Longhair\^talk 06:00, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I cannot see anything that makes this subject notable. Aoziwe (talk) 13:07, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:47, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. School principal is no claim to notability. The Drover's Wife (talk) 23:34, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete a non-notable school headmaster.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:05, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Clearly not an ordinary schoolmaster or headmaster. When no less an Australia icon than Max Dupain is moved to say "Thanks to my English sixth form master, Sandy Phillips, I learned to love Shakespeare and can still quote numbers of salient extracts which we were required to learn by heart". This was not published in an alumni publication but is part of his own biographical notes in a major retrospective exhibition of his work by the State Library of New South Wales. Based on Phillips publications alone he is notable. Unfortunately as those calling for deletion are in places as remote as Detroit Michigan I doubt that they can understand the role of Headmaster in an historic and notable Sydney school. Please note that this is one of many AfDs brought against my work in the first week of the nominators arrival on Wikipedia. Fortunately many of them are being seen as unworthy and being dismissed with speed. Castlemate (talk) 15:33, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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- Irrelevant and illogical argument. A famous photographer happened to have this guy as his English teacher (totally unrelated to the actually notable person's achievements), therefore the non-notable schoolteacher becomes notable because the famous photographer found him interesting/fun. Adsfvdf54gbb (talk) 07:41, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not sure why someone went to all the trouble of writing about a non-notable school headmaster. Article author needs to read WP:N. 104.163.154.101 (talk) 00:19, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Headmasters will require extraordinary achievement to meet WP:GNG talkless of WP:ACADEMIC. And the weird attempt to inherit notability based on single comment by former student/photographer is another reason for delete. –Ammarpad (talk) 08:48, 7 December 2017 (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.