Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martin O'Reilly


 * 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. No-one recommends deletion other than the nom, whose argument is a WP:VAGUEWAVE argument to delete. (non-admin closure) → B  music  ian  02:47, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Martin O'Reilly

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Article fails WP:GNG and WP:MUSICBIO MJ94 (talk) 23:57, 4 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep passes GNG - a google scholar source for "Martin O'Reilly blind piper" turns up multiple sources. There's a section dedicated to him on page 239 of Francis O'Neill's Irish minstrels and musicians from 1913.. O'NHeill's text is also featured here with a photo·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 00:31, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Weak keep: Personally I know very, very little about Irish pipers, but the 1913 book that is copied by a source currently cited in the article can also be found at GBooks, and it seems to verify much of the content here; given that this material in turn cites a variety of press reports about O'Reilly, it seems possible that he was, in fact, covered by substantial independent reliable sources of the time, even if those are not easily found on-line. Cf. WP:OFFLINE, FUTON bias.  So this may be worth further consideration.  --Arxiloxos (talk) 00:36, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Without saying yea or nay - I usually don't vote when an article I created is considered for deletion, trusting instead to the good judgement of my fellow Wikipedieans - this is one of a series of articles on Irish musicians from the 12th-20th centuries that I am creating. Information on them does exist, but it is not easy to obtain. Given that music is such an important part of our culture and heritage, I would ask you to give it your best consideration. These people left little enough trace as it is, and facts of their lives are far less well preserved than more worthy (sic) politicions and rebels. Yet they also served. Is mise, Fergananim (talk) 05:51, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
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 * Keep Except for the 1913 publication already mentioned I see that Reilly has a short chapter in Hidden Galway called A blind piper, he apparently won prizes and is talked about as "well known" and one of the "great Galway pipers". Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 21:58, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
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