Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Burke Jr.

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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The result was Keep/Non withdrawn many improvements made. (closed by non-admin) RMHED (talk) 22:49, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Richard Burke Jr.

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Delete Clearly not notable per WP:BIO and WP:NN. Strothra (talk) 03:47, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

    • Nomination Withdrawn per Paularblaster's fine work. --Strothra (talk) 01:16, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, scour of Google Books indicates no notability other than as Edmund's son. (Note, he isn't the Friends character either.) --Dhartung | Talk 04:58, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, now that he's confirmed as an MP. Didn't find that! --Dhartung | Talk 01:42, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge with Edmund Burke, there is some interesting material here that could be incorporated into the father's article. Anarchia (talk) 11:27, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Unquestionably notable, as the article of Edmund Burke in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says that he succeeded to his father's seat in parliament, which is accepted in WP as notability. The WP article is of poor quality, neither giving the obvious references nor showing the notability, as is frequently the case for article put in with a COI-- It seems we get about 2/3 of the puffery and 1/3 inadequacy. COI is a reason to check for both. I've added the information to the article. Google Scholar is not the total sum of human knowledge--professionally prepared resources are not yet superseded. . DGG (talk) 22:39, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - he did a couple of minorly notable things, as well as being an MP, and I've just spent my evening wikifying the entry (links from lists of MPs, etc.). --Paularblaster (talk) 00:12, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. As an MP, clearly meets WP:BIO. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:36, 25 November 2007 (UTC)


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