A fact from William Orr (trade unionist) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 April 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Australian trade union organiser William Orr was charged with incitement to murder after advising striking coal miners to arm themselves?
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True, but there should still be some evidence of notabiility, or at least significance, in the article. Creating an unreferenced stub that simply says "he was a miner" (paraphrasing; I know that's not exactly what you wrote) doesn't help anybody. I've beefed the article up with a more comprehensive bio that clearly shows why he's notable, and added several additional sources; it wasn't hard and didn't take very long. There's almost certainly more out there about him - I haven't even checked the Google News archives yet - it's not really that difficult to create a page that stands a chance of being kept. Yunshui雲水 09:23, 5 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
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