Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Norman Dike

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The result was delete. Killiondude (talk) 06:40, 26 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Norman Dike

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Norman Dike was a commissioned officer in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. He served at the company, battalion, regimental and division level but not above company grade. He transferred in the Army Reserve after the war, was eventually promoted to lieutenant colonel, and resigned his commission in 1957. His highest rank and highest award (Silver Star) do not qualify him for consideration under WP:SOLDIER (Immediately post-War, he was credited with two Bronze Stars. To have a silver star he probably would have had to serve in Korea, but I couldn't find a record of such an assignment.) He later graduated from Yale Law School and was involved with minerals companies in the U.S. West. Per his obituary, he was a U.S. commissioner in Japan and worked for/with the CIA; again, no secondary verification. He moved to Switzerland in the late 1950s and more-or-less fell off the radar except for bare mentions—daughter's marriage, his death in 1987. Essentially, there's no significant coverage of his post-War life. Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 01:13, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment - I think Dike is an interesting guy. I expanded the article because I thought there had to be more to him than "he froze in combat;" I have some decidedly non-encyclopedic thoughts about what really went on in Belgium. I don't think he was necessarily a nice guy; the person cropped out of the picture in the article was his English girlfriend and the picture was taken about the time his first child was being born back in the states. None of the foregoing makes him notable.--Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 01:26, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

delete He comes across as a sort of Everyman-2nd Lt.; I can see nothing in the narrative that lends itself to a hook in the lead. Mangoe (talk) 15:09, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Being protrayed in film or other media does not gaurantee notability, and that is the only thing coming close to showing notability for Dike.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:45, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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