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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]
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)[reply]

Done. Pdfpdf (talk) 13:10, 6 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]