Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John O'Brennan


 * 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__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Liz Read! Talk! 08:07, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

John O'Brennan

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I have doubts about notability, as there are quite few independent sources in the article, most of the refs are his own university's website. --HPfan4 (talk) 09:32, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Politics,  and Ireland.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 09:52, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep. Passes WP:Prof at least. Xxanthippe (talk) 10:41, 24 March 2024 (UTC).
 * Keep. As mentioned above, passes WP:PROF parts 5, and by the look of stuff like this (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) from both Irish national news outlets and EuroNews, he passes part 7 (note part "a" of that) too. ser! (chat to me - see my edits) 11:04, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep. WP:NPROF does appear to be met. That said, the article needs significant cleanup. In its current state it is a (frankly embarrassing) puff-piece in which the supposed "references" do not support the text, and it was clearly written by someone (apparently an SPA and/or COI contributor) who was more interested in promoting the subject than in creating neutral content based on reliable and verifiable sources (to discuss rather than to promote the topic/subject). Guliolopez (talk) 16:20, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep. My thoughts are the same as Guliolopez: While the article itself is in terrible shape, the subject of the article is above the threshold of notability. CeltBrowne (talk) 09:59, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Draftify until the article can be re-written properly. It's in pretty bad shape. Problem with WP:NPROF is that it's difficult to find good references to un-puff an article. SportingFlyer  T · C  22:53, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I think the usual approach is just to strip it down rather than trying to bolster the puffery that is already there. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:42, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep As noted above, the subject clearly passes WP:PROF#5 (and seemingly #7 as well). Sal2100 (talk) 19:52, 28 March 2024 (UTC)


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