Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ray Foley

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. Mackensen (talk) 18:23, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ray Foley

Ray Foley (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

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Radio show presenter. This article has no sources for its notability, though he seems likely to be included. Peter O. (Talk) 16:35, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, W.marsh 01:04, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - appears non-notable to me, the article reads like a fluff piece. Without any sources cited there should be no article. -- wtfunkymonkey 01:59, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Doesn't assert notability. Hello32020 02:06, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep He's a presenter (DJ) on a radio station that covers all of Ireland, and he was nominated for an national radio award last year [1]. I'd say he satisfies the "name recognition" and "large fan base" qualifiers (on a national level) for WP:BIO. Caknuck 03:48, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep He seems like a regional celeb, and has Irish newspaper coverage [[2]] and as said above, he has been up for national awards. I think per Caknuck, it's a keeper, of course after some clean up/sources. Missvain 04:39, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep Presenting on Ireland's only national independent radio station seems to be just sufficiently notable. However, the article needs work. It's entirely unverified/OR, reads a bit like a CV and I can't help but feel there's been some WP:AUTO going on here on the part of the man himself. -- IslaySolomon | talk 07:57, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Actually better make that a very weak keep. The coverage I get from Google.ie news is along "local lad set from stardom" lines from regional papers. -- IslaySolomon | talk 08:02, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Only thing notable is that it's presenting in the nation's only independent radio station. Nothing much special. Does not pass notability test. Sr13 09:19, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete No real significance --pgk 16:06, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete I see a reference to a non trivial independent reference, but I don't see multiple non trivial independent references. HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 17:05, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. - A Link to the Past (talk) 00:35, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable. Since this article was proposed for deletion, Candlewicke has removed the AfD template and made some significant additions to the article. The fact that lots of unsourced information was added by a single user and three of the external links lead to home movies on YouTube leads me to suspect WP:COI. Stebbins 02:16, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable ( and, I suspect, self-written ). WMMartin 18:18, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep Very notable, known all around Ireland. 24.226.160.237

You're going to need to provide sources to back up that claim. Right now there are none in the article. Stebbins 18:09, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

• Weak Keep per IslaySolomon. I agree that this is an iffy article. --Wizardman 18:11, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep He is very popular among the radio listeners of Ireland so much so that he was given his own show during the day + as said above he has been nominated at least for national awards, or perhaps may have won some. The article has received some work too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.40.201.126 (talk • contribs)
• Strong Keep He is a well-known radio personality.16:52, 25 November 2006 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.40.201.126 (talk • contribs) (struck double vote)

I feel it is worth pointing out that the previous two comments were added by the same IP address. Stebbins 19:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Let's just call this no consensus and close the debate, as it seems quite split. --Wizardman 17:10, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, DJ on a national radiostation in Ireland should make him notable enough. bbx 08:12, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep, He definitely is notable enough to be kept. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.36.19.106 (talk • contribs) — 87.36.19.106 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
• Strong Keep Should be kept —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.40.205.0 (talk • contribs) (striking another likely double vote; see page history; user is IP hopping Patstuart^{(talk)(contribs)} 21:40, 27 November 2006 (UTC))

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