Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Daley

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was DELETE (excluding the first two, all the keep votes are very new users and appear to be sockpuppets). JamesTeterenko 06:23, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Chris Daley

Not notable. Compare Mr. Daley to Steve Irwin, with whom he is claimed comparable. brenneman^(t)(c) 09:05, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. I think the advertisements featuring Chris have been of great benefit to the Reserves recruitment drive. I would vote to merge with the Australian Army Reserves article but we don't have one. edgeworth 11:55, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Pcb21| Pete 16:23, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, appears to be notable. Hall Monitor 23:35, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
• Comment I was pretty sloppy in my google links, thanks go to Pcb21 for fixing the Steve Irwin one. Trying again:
  • "Chris Daley"+Australia+Reserves has 72 hits (The first two say "I am NOT a rifleman")
  • "Chris Daley"+Australia+rifleman has 33 hits (Same)
  • "Chris Daley"+Australia+army has 89 hits (Similar)
  • "Chris Daley"+Australia+recruitment has 76 hits
  • "Chris Daley" site:www.army.gov.au has 0 hits

I'm happy to change my vote if someone provides some evidence that Mr. Daley is notable, or tells me what I'm not
seeing. Has there been mention of these ads in any major media? - brenneman^(t)(c) 00:44, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. This guy may or may not appear in the Army Reserve ad. As an Australian, I've never heard of him which suggests that his profile is pretty low. In response to Aaron Brenneman's question, I'm not aware of any mentions of him and a Google News search for "Chris Daley" Australian Army returns zero hits see [1]. While I respect and honour him as a serviceman, that does not mean that he meets the criteria for an encyclopaedia article. Capitalistroadster 01:57, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Delete I'm Australian, and I haven't heard of him. Also a possible hoax. --Apyule 06:07, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete to support the opinions of the Australians. Also in this context he is an actor. Somehow I don't think as an actor this would meet the bar to become an article. Vegaswikian 06:35, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep How can you consider yourself Australian and not have known Chris Daley! Regular viewers of the local Channel Nine news in Perth will have most certainly noticed the often controversial "'Daley' Diatribe" segment of the news. He is a prominent figure throughout the Australian television industry (for his notable contributions) AND the Australian army (for his dedicated service). Whilst it may seem suspicious that I have signed up recently, after viewing the comments related to Chris Daley's reputation, I felt I had a duty as a patriotic Australian. WW Rusty Gates 12:33, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

I can find no mention of him on any Australian website (including the 9 network). I'm going to keep my vote unchanged until someone provides some evidence that he exists, such as a website, the time that he is on TV (preferably on the East coast), anything that someone can check . --Apyule 14:34, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

• Strong Delete Clutter of no merit. Dottore So 20:17, 10 August 2005 (UTC)Dottoreso
• Keep. Daley's segments on Nine were sporadic and always very short; I don't think they've appeared for a few years but I definitely remember them. Chozza 10:10, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, how can you not have heard of Chris Daley! Perhaps he's only well-known in WA. Reginald Fly 13:42, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
• Strong delete. Is this page being sockpuppeted? Creator edgeworth votes keep. His user page strongly implies that he is Chris Daley. Users WW Rusty Gates, Chozza and Reginald Fly all vote keep on this page within twenty minutes of joining Wikipedia, then cease editing. I am from WA and I have never heard of Chris Daley. Hesperian 02:01, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

looks like sock puppets to me too, though some of Chozza's new edits are good. --Apyule 02:15, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! I can assure you I'm not a sock puppet... whatever that is. I only dicscovered Wikipedia a few nights ago and while I was browsing around a Reserves advertisement came on TV. Out of curiousity I checked to see if he had an article, and was surprised to find that it was up for deletion. So I decided to join up to vote yes, and then figured, "Why not add to the encyclopaedia while I'm here?" I'll definitely be a regular contributor. Chozza 09:41, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

You're very welcome; forgive the assumption of bad faith. Hesperian 14:10, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, vanity--nixie 02:18, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete -- vanity or hoax. - Longhair | Talk 04:43, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
• Deleto!--Cyberjunkie | Talk 06:33, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep!, This page should definitely be considered anew, as it has more than doubled, in both length and interest. vote by 203.161.101.187
  • ...thanks to the unreferenced, POV, vanity contribution of the above anon voter. Hesperian 23:14, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

The vote also came from Perth, which is where most of the keep votes have come from. Not that it really matters though. --Apyule 01:29, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

I think the Chris Daley ads only air in Western Australia. I went to Brisbane for a few weeks in May and didn't see a single one. HipHopOppotomus 09:04, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, while he is certainyl not as notable as Steve Irwin or Rove, he is fairly popular in WA and worthy of his own article. HipHopOppotomus 09:04, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Yet another brand new user from Western Australia with a predilection for military edits. Personally, I think we've got ourselves a whole platoon of meat puppets. My inability to adhere to the "assume good faith" policy is becoming embarrassing, so I'm going to unwatch this page and leave it to the rest of you. Hesperian 02:23, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
    • Apart from Chris Daley, the only military articles I've edited involved the presence of the SAS in Perth. It obviously didn't belong in the "transport" section, and I couldn't figure out where else to put it, but it was still notable. So I created a "Military Presence" section and put some other things in there to fill it out a little. Thank you for your pointless suspicion. HipHopOppotomus 11:10, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

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