Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aed mac Brian Ó hUiginn


 * 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. j⚛e deckertalk 00:18, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Aed mac Brian Ó hUiginn

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This is a very short article about a member of an historical family of Irish Poets. It is based entirely on a primary source (Annals of the Four Masters), which has one sentence giving the date of his death. I suspect that that one sentence is all that is known about him, which is not enough to justify a Wikipedia article.

The article is one of many spun out from Ó hUiginn and probably the best thing to do is merge all of them there. However, Irish poets are well outside my comfort zone so I won't be doing it. Besides, that article also has problems, the names on the list are either more names taken from the same primary source, or modern notable Higgins' included as members of the family on, apparently, no other evidence than that Higgins is an Anglicization of Ó hUiginn. So I'm bringing this one article to AfD to see how community opinion shapes up on it, but there is potentially a wider problem to address and I would ask participants to bear that in mind. SpinningSpark 19:02, 8 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete: I originally requested speedy delete but this was denied although the article is similar to Domnall mac Brian Ó hÚigínn and Gilla na Neamh Ó h-Uiginn, both deleted as non-notable. Some the Ó hUiginns are notable but others contain just a sentence or two archived from many centuries ago and no further info is available to update to flesh out any kind of biography. Quis separabit?  19:09, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Commnent. I was looking at the speedy request at the same time and would have declined it for the same reason; it needs a community debate. SpinningSpark 19:21, 8 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete as non-notable. Looks like impossible to expand this article from verifiable sources. We only know when he died. This could exist as list entry in Ó hUiginn page, or some other list of poets from this family, but does not need own article. (I concur that this is indeed not speedily deletable. It is close to CSD A7, but we don't usually apply that to historical figures.). jni (delete)...just not interested 20:49, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:09, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
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