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[edit]Notability criteria for recipients of the Order of Orange-Nassau?
[edit]What would be the notability level (wikipedia guideline) of the recipients of the award Order of Orange-Nassau as Ridder (Knight)? -Deepraj | Talk 14:44, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
- The mere fact that someone is a knight does not imply sufficient notability to justify an article, but it could be one of a group of facts that together do justify this.--MWAK 04:41, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Removal of "Notable Recipients" section
[edit]I propose the removal of this section:
- 1) The article is about the order, not about recipients of the order
- 2) A number of categories already exist:
- Category:Order of Orange-Nassau
- Category:Grand Masters of the Order of Orange-Nassau (3 P)
- Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau (61 P)
- Category:Grand Officers of the Order of Orange-Nassau (38 P)
- Category:Commanders of the Order of Orange-Nassau (60 P)
- Category:Officers of the Order of Orange-Nassau (54 P)
- Category:Knights of the Order of Orange-Nassau (50 P)
- Category:Recipients of the Order of Orange-Nassau (22 P)
- 2a. Why duplicate the contents of those categories onto this page?
- 2b. There are about 300 members of those categories. Certainly there is NO point in duplicating all 300 of them!
- 2c. If you are going to chose a subset of them, what criteria are you going to use?
- 3) Somebody else has expressed the opinion:
- OPINION: Every year about 4500 people are accepted as a member of the Order of Orange-Nassau, while some 3000 existing members die (see http://www.nrc.nl/binnenland/article1876441.ece/14_vragen_over_de_lintjesregen). The tiny list below is therefore both useless and misleading.
- I agree. Hence:
- Remove - per above, Pdfpdf (talk) 18:07, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
- Remove - this article, about a widely presented order, gains little by having a small list of members. It is about as useful as a list of recipients of the Order of the British Empire. EricSerge (talk) 19:25, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
Done. Pdfpdf (talk) 13:10, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
Post-nominals
[edit]Do members of the Order use any kind of post-nominals? And is there a Dutch equivalent of the English title "Sir"? Zacwill16 (talk) 16:50, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
- No, and no. The only Dutch order that uses post-nominals is the Military William Order, whose recipients are commonly styled RMWO (Ridder der Militaire Willems-Orde). "Sir" does not exist either - while people are sometimes said to have been "knighted", this usually means that they have received some decoration other than Member of the Order of Orange-Nassau (or even any decoration).--JorisEnter (talk) 16:08, 13 June 2016 (UTC)