Talk:Conlon

On 21 Jan 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. See Votes for deletion/Conlon for a record of the discussion. Rossami (talk) 02:14, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This article has subsequently been turned into a disambiguation page. This resolves the disposition of the Wikipedia version article.

In a separate matter, I note that most of the names shown on this disambiguation page are currently redlinks with very few inbound links. In three cases, there were no inbound links except from this disambiguation page. Disambiguation pages are not really the appropriate place to enter the request for an article on that topic. I am removing the redlinked lines from the page. Please do not add them back until and unless a verifiable, non-stub article is created on this person. You can periodically check this version of the history to see if a redlink is now a bluelink. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 5 July 2005 23:11 (UTC)

Every one of those redlinks is a person mentioned in an existing Wikipedia article. It seems to me most unlikely that the creator of the redlinked articles will think to update this list. I do not understand the harm done by having them as redlinks until they are populated. &mdash;Theo (Talk) 6 July 2005 09:25 (UTC)
 * Answered at length on your Talk page. Apologies for the very long post.  Rossami (talk) 6 July 2005 15:36 (UTC)

Etymology
From the page: "″The name may be derived from two Irish Gaelic words 'Con' (the genitive case of Cú, meaning 'hound') and 'Lón' meaning lion - thereby implying a person who has the characteristics of a lion born of a hound - strength and speed." Would love to see this cited, not least as proof of lions in 13th C. Ireland, but also as "lón" means "lunch" in Irish, whereupon this name would more closely translate as 'hotdog'. More likely, it's neither lion from a dog nor lunch from a dog, but rather is speculative and should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.239.200.154 (talk) 15:45, 16 April 2018 (UTC)