Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Melville Smith
First, while deputy ministers ''can'' be notable, deputy ministers are not automatically notable under  but must pass . Second, having reviewed all of the sources, this fails . I've done a Google Books search, a Newspapers.com search, and a couple other searches and very little of the coverage of him is significant. There is a book showing he did win an award for the development of Canada, but it's scarcely significant coverage. Of the sources in the article, one just names him as the deputy minister, and the other is the source that lists the medal which Icewhiz helpfully added above. I understand a  argument in a historical context, but he's apparently not listed in this book at all (could this be an OCR issue?) https://books.google.com.au/books?id=OXDWAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Robert+Melville+Smith%22+ontario&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Smith though he is apparently mentioned in this book https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-3x4AAAACAAJ&dq=%22Robert+Melville+Smith%22+ontario&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjTh7PDq9reAhVNfn0KHRK-CCA4ChDoAQg-MAU ({{ping|Bearcat}}, do you know if Boston Mills Press is a reliable publisher?), and newspapers.com brings up very little (perhaps its Canadian coverage isn't decent
— User:SportingFlyer, 02:34, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NPOL||WP:GNG||WP:GNG||WP:NEXIST (Wikipedia:Notability)