Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gary foley

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The result of the debate waskeep as rewritten. Eliot 16:11, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gary Foley

Nice biography, but Foley did not seem notable enough to merit an article. Or have I set the bar too high...? --Mysidia 11:16, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

• Strong Keep and speedy. Way too high A very important leader of the radical Australian Aboriginal community. The vFD is a little like suggesting a VFD on Malcolm X. --Porturology 11:40, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
  • What is the radical Australian Aboriginal Community, I cannot find any articles about such a community on the Wikipedia, and its significance is not really explained. --Mysidia 11:46, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Australian aborigines are the indigenous people of Australia. In the Eastern states (of Australia) they prefer to be called by a number of names of which two of the most common are 'Koori' and Murri. They make up 2% of the population and through their dispossesion and discrimination, both blatant and subtle, are an underclass of Australian society (stop me if this is getting difficult). One of the great political questions of Australia is the treatment of the Koori. There are many views on this; recently a party called One Nation attracted some support by calling for a stop of government policies aimed to help aborigines. Gary Foley, who has >500 hits on Google is a prominent Koori who has a more radical approach to the questions of reconciliation, compensation for the stolen generation, government support etc. He was one of a group of tertiary educated Kooris who became politically active and received public notice from the late 60s onwards.--Porturology 11:59, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Great.. explain some of this more clearly in the article and keep --Mysidia 12:08, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
  • However, I thought it was too well written and is in fact a copy vio--Porturology 12:13, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
• Revise so as not to be a copyvio. If what Porturology is saying is correct, then this is notable. However, in its current state, it is both illegal and not clearly notable. -mysekurity 18:34, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Replace previous version with Porturology's statements. Wile E. Heresiarch 20:41, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep . Notable aboriginal leader. Notable aboriginal leader see [1] but I will rewrite article as Gary FoleyCapitalistroadster 03:37, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete copyvio. JamesBurns 08:32, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Have written Gary Foley article. Given that the article under discussion is a copyvio, I would propose having this as a redirect to that article once the copyvio process has run its course. Capitalistroadster 09:51, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Comment Great Article on Gary Foley. The original author of Gary foley has removed the VFD and written a 3 line stub . I am not sure of the protocol but IMO this should be wiped and the page become a redirect--Porturology 12:54, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• keep the one by capitalistroadster it is really good Yuckfoo 23:02, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Comment I posted original article as I thought it was important to include Gary Foley on Wikipedia(above reasons explain why well enough) I did copy & paste it from another article(in fact the first google link re same). I was unaware of how copyright works in relation to Wikipedia. I did not intend to take any credit for the bio, just start a thread on Gary Foley that hopefully would be updated changed etc. User:Khanada

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