Talk:Order of Orange-Nassau

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Notability criteria for recipients of the Order of Orange-Nassau?

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)

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)

Removal of "Notable Recipients" section

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)
• 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)

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

Post-nominals

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)

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)