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Featured articleWilliam Brill (RAAF officer) is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
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Did You Know Article milestones
DateProcessResult
March 27, 2011Good article nomineeListed
April 24, 2011WikiProject A-class reviewApproved
May 30, 2011Featured article candidatePromoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 8, 2011.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that during a raid on Berlin in 1944, RAAF Squadron Leader Bill Brill's (pictured) Avro Lancaster was struck by incendiary bombs dropped by another Allied aircraft above him?
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Problem with neutrality and notability

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This is a well written article, but I wonder if this person is notable enough to deserve an article about. Being awarded the distinguished flying cross is indeed very honorable, as is serving as a bomber group commander in the war, but those accomplishments are not in themselves enough to deserve an encyclopedic entry. Many people were awarded the DFC, and many served as group leaders; it seems unbalanced for William Brill to deserve a special article. Furthermore, I wonder if a similar pilot and officer from, say, the Chinese people's liberation army Air Force, would be found deserving of an equal article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kot8 (talk • contribs) 07:42, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This is far from the only Wikipedia article on an Australian aviator and awarded veteran. Brutannica (talk) 14:29, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Kot8 - notability isn't about whether someone is "deserving" or not (something which is obviously subjective at any rate), it rests on whether they have received significant coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject per WP:GNG. Clearly Brill HAS received a large amount of coverage and therefore meets the requirement. If "similar pilots and officers" from the Chinese air force have also been written about as extensively as Brill and you are willing to donate your time to write articles on them then I encourage you to do so. Anotherclown (talk) 00:25, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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