Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Dickson MBE
ANYBIO says "a well-known and significant award or honor." Getting an MBE certainly helps. But some honor handed out en masse by one particular leader in one country is not automatically "significant."  This appears to be a less exclusive honor than several related ones. The relevant article indicates there is no stated limit to how many MBEs can be awarded in a given year. Have any such honors been handed out to persons for things other than great achievements, such as to curry political favor, or to a friend of no particular accomplishments? What if the leader of any other country of population 60 something million handed out an honor to someone. Automatically notable as well? We should not hand over the keys to Wikipedia notability to any one national leader with a box full of ribbons to hand out each year.  There should still be reliable sources to satisfy 
— User:Edison, 19:51, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)