Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ciaran O'Connell

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. --Coredesat 03:20, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ciaran O'Connell

Ciaran O'Connell (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

Delete probable hoax article of someone supposedly a member of the Irish parliament - our article at the constituency shows that other people won the election. Carlossuarez46 18:39, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete Reliable sources do not back this article up, no sources given in article. --Fabrictramp 19:28, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete An attempt to trace the subject of this article in any aspect of Irish politics resulted in a dead end. The subject is non notable and the article appears to be a fabrication. --Stormbay 21:37, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete and Comment To be fair, not quite a fabrication. But the subject of the article is the same as the subject of this AFD from two weeks ago. And I must add that although this article doesn't technically claim that the subject is a member of Dáil Éireann, the Irish parliament - he isn't - the infobox as it stands is misleading. The subject isn't a successor to the politician named in the infobox. (And on a related note, as the constituences for Dáil Éireann are multi-seat constituencies, there is no need for a successor section.) FlowerpotmaN·(t) 01:56, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete might be speedy under WP:CSD#G4 since this article (or a reasonably similar one) was subject to a recent AfD per Flowerpotman. Not a hoax per se, but not notable. Flyguy649 talk contribs 05:07, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
  • I had requested speedy in this article on the basis of it being about a "non notable" peron and had thrown in the possibility of it being a hoax. I withdraw that statement but certainly find parts of the info box to be disingenuous. --Stormbay 22:20, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete There is no indications that he has a seat in Parliament so it is not notable and the reference is more from a blog so it fails WP:Reliable SourceS on that one--JForget 23:00, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Dont Delete It does not mention he is a member of the Parliament or suggest that he is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.43.66.194 (talk) 11:18, August 24, 2007 (UTC)
  • Dont Delete it simply states he is a candidate of Fianna Fáil for the local election in 2009, the ref to him being the successor has been removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.43.66.194 (talk) 11:22, August 24, 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment Well, there are problems with that. Even elected Irish county councillors don't tend to notable, in the Wikipedia sense, by virtue of their office alone unless there are other reasons for them to be included. A general exception is if they are members of their party's National Executive/Ard Comhairle. And there isn't any source to confirm that he will be a candidate; for that matter, have any candidates for the 2009 Irish local elections from any party been officially announced yet? FlowerpotmaN·(t) 22:24, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.