Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Finbar Madden

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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 of the debate was keep - no consensus. FireFox 22:23, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Finbar Madden

Secondary school teacher, notability not asserted Demiurge 10:29, 15 December 2005 (UTC)


I have cleaned up this page, it should no longer be nominated for speedy deletion. Finbar Madden clearly meets the criteria for inclusion.


May i refer you to Wikipedia:Criteria for inclusion of biographies[1]

It says one of the criteria for inclusion is:

  • Published authors, editors, and photographers who have written books with an audience of 5,000 or more or in periodicals with a circulation of 5,000 or more.

Clearly Finbar Madden fufills this criteria. A quick search on amazon will show you he has sold considerbly more than 5000 copies of three his books on this site alone. For this reason and after cleaning up the page i strongly recommend it is not deleted. N mcdermott 04:27, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

  • Comment I did a search on amazon.co.uk, couldn't find sales figures (just sales rankings) for any of his books. Do you have a link? Demiurge 11:21, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Apologies i misread the sales rankings/figures, but clearly having four books published more than meets the criteria, therefore nomination for deletion removed. time for this targed campaign against johnfullerton to stop.

  • Neutral, but it should be noted that User:143.117.143.42's behavior is not condoned and will be dealt with appropriately if repeated. --Nlu (talk) 13:00, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  • This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now. —Crypticbot (operator) 15:21, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete unless reliable sources are cited in the article. Arguing in AfD is all very well, but does nothing to make the article any more keepworthy. --Last Malthusian 15:42, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  • I don't understand what exactly needs to be cited in the article. Do you want links to his books on amazon.co.uk or something?--159.134.207.182 17:04, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete due to verifiability issues, per Last Malthusian. Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C] AfD? 16:36, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep Madden's books are now cited in the bibliography.--Johnfullerton 10:09, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep published author. -- JJay 22:23, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete per Malthusian and Guy, per the subject's utter lack of notability, and per the authorship by User:Johnfullerton who has previously given us problems [2]. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 07:49, Dec. 26, 2005


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.