Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Irish Australians

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The result of the debate was KEEP, at its new location. -Splash 06:46, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Irish Australians
Personal essay. --Ryan Delaney talk 07:50, 20 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Move - to Irish in Australia or similar... in a recently featured new article it says about 50% of Irish live outside of Ireland... it could be interesting... even if this article right now isn't up to par. gren グレン 08:38, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Irish Australian or the stuff listed below will be fine too. gren グレン 20:52, 20 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep and cleanup. Possibly rename. There are certainly plenty of people descended from Irish settlers in Australia including Prime Ministers such as Paul Keating. Capitalistroadster 09:58, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Move, per gren. Unless somebody provides evidence that "Irish Austrailians" is commonly used in Australia. The only place that I'm aware of it being in usage is in the US. --GraemeL (talk) 12:12, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep page and title, I'm sure the list of irish aussies will grow. Erich 16:05, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The Irish had a significant role in the growth of Australia, just as they did the US. We have similar articles for a variety of nations; I see no need to delete this one. Ambi 16:44, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but perhaps move to Irish Australian to match Irish American and Irish Canadian. - SimonP 19:03, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to Irish Australian, reference, let it grow. No more reason to delete this that there is to delete Chinese Canadian or Greek American. CanadianCaesar 20:25, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or Move to Irish in Australia. The basic premise of the article is valid: the Irish were indeed a major influence in the history of Australia. Hesperian 12:30, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep the content, regardless of the title it may eventually reside at. Useful topic. — Sesel wa  22:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Sesel.--Cyberjunkie | Talk 09:51, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep It has a lot of potential. 64.109.248.118 04:17, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment a list of "Irish Australians" would be fairly useless at this point. There's just too many of us to list, and frankly most people couldn't care less about their own ethnicity one way or another --- wouldn't even know if they were Irish/English/whatever if it weren't for their surnames.  That's not to say that the influence of Ireland on Australia wouldn't make a good article (apart from the original research problem); there was a time when Irish/English Catholic/Protestant etc. was significant (cf. William McKell). --fuddlemark 15:09, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.