Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Séan Walsh (poet)


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The result was delete, most likely a hoax, and no notability has been demonstrated anyway.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:40, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Séan Walsh (poet)

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No sources (not eligible for WP:PROD BLP because it was created earlier thant the deadline) and has needed a rewrite since 2007. Also, seems to fail WP:GNG Uberaccount (talk) 02:55, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
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 * Comment - WP:PROD BLP wouldn't be applicable anyway because the article isn't about a living person; he's been dead for over a century. The allegedly well known work by this artist, The Moorlands of Halifax, is similarly lacking in sources and should probably be deleted along with this article. ~Amatulić (talk) 03:20, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Whoops! Uberaccount (talk) 03:45, 2 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment -- Assuming the content is true, we would seem to be dealing with a fairly minor person, but if he were to figure in the lives of the Brontes or something like that, it would be worth keeping. The significance seems to be that he painted a picture that was presented to their father.  I think the answer may be to merge the article on the picture into this one.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:13, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
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 * Keep A famous poet, the article needs to be re-written though. Sunderland against Di Canio (talk) 10:21, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, czar   &middot;   &middot;  03:06, 9 May 2013 (UTC)




 * Comment I'm struggling to find sources. He's not in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.  He's not in Grove Art Online. There's nowt in The Times.  This smells very hoaxy, no sources and the name Sean doesn't really fit with the alleged date of birth (1802).  There's nothing in the birth records in www.findmypast.co.uk (although this could be for various other reasons, including if he was born say in Ireland rather than Yorkshire, or they've transcribed his name wrong).  There was however a Sean Michael Walsh born 1988 in Halifax, and another born 1989 in Keighley (Keith-lee, which is near Haworth, where the Bronte family lived), my gut feeling is it's one of those who's taken his name or his friend's name and wrote this.  What's the record now for Wikipedia hoaxes?  Barney the barney barney (talk) 17:57, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete both this article and The Moorlands of Halifax. Possibly a hoax, but the important thing is that sources appear to be entirely lacking, so that the articles fail WP:V. An additional suspicious aspect is that the Dean Clough galleries in Halifax appear to collect only contemporary art; I can find no mention of any 19th-century works held there. Unless someone can come up with sourcing for the person or painting that isn't dependent on our articles, there's no recourse but to delete them. Deor (talk) 14:37, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. Looks like a hoax to me, too, and I couldn't find any sources for anything. Dricherby (talk) 10:24, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
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