Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Maher (Irish politician)


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The result was delete. Tone 10:53, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

John Maher (Irish politician)

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Non-notable local politician. The subject does not meet the notability criteria for politicians (WP:NPOL), in that local councillors in Ireland do not meet the expectations of an international or national office. The subject also doesn't meet the general notability criteria for people (WP:SIGCOV/WP:NBIO), in that the only non-trivial coverage is the very recent (and minimal) coverage of the subject's candidacy in a by-election. Otherwise, for example, a search for the subject in the main newspapers of record in Ireland (Irish Times and Irish Independent) returns nothing relevant, and I can find only one or two other pieces of otherwise trivial coverage like this like this one. Where the subject is tangentially mentioned among other candidates. In a mannger which does not meet the expectations of SIGCOV. Article was created because the subject is seeking national office. But, standing in a by-election doesn't contribute to WP:NPOL. Being a candidate for national office is some distance from holding a national office. (The de-PROD argument "articles on other local politicians exist" is not relevant. Given WP:OTHERSTUFF and WP:OSE guidelines. Subject's are notable on their own merits. Not by association with other subjects.) Guliolopez (talk) 09:23, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions. Guliolopez (talk) 09:38, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Guliolopez (talk) 09:38, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete For my reasons stated at Articles for deletion/George Lawlor —Iveagh Gardens (talk) 16:02, 21 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. County councillor is not a level of office that confers an automatic free pass over NPOL #2 just because the person exists, and his candidacy in a Dail by-election is not grounds for a Wikipedia article either — he would have to win the by-election to collect notability from the by-election. But the referencing here is a mix of primary and unreliable sources (e.g. profiles on the self-published and directly affiliated websites of the county council and his political party, podcasts, blogs) that are not support for notability at all; purely routine local coverage of the type that every local councillor everywhere is simply expected to get in the local media, which is not enough to make him a special case of greater notability than most other county councillors; and glancing namechecks of his existence in sources that are not fundamentally about him. Obviously this will be recreatable after election day if he wins the national by-election, since his basis for notability will have changed, but this is not the kind of sourcing it takes to make a local councillor or an as yet unelected by-election candidate already notable enough for an article today. Bearcat (talk) 22:48, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, Bearcat and Iveagh Gardens. Spleodrach (talk) 17:57, 23 November 2019 (UTC)


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