Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William O'Leary (Irish politician)


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The result was speedy keep per nominator withdraw and WP:NPOL  HunterM267  talk 01:54, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
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Non-notable politician. Neither of the two references in the article say anything useful. One is just the home page of a general Irish government site; I can't find anything at all about him there. The other (electionsireland.org) is probably not a WP:RS, and doesn't say anything significant about him anyway. My own searching failed to find anything better, but (surprise!) there's a lot of people named O'Leary in Ireland and many of them have been elected to office, so I could just be missing him in the noise. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:03, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Withdrawn per the numerous comments below. But, really, the references suck.  Based on what's there now, this doesn't even pass WP:V.  -- RoySmith (talk) 20:54, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

William O'Leary (Irish politician)

 * Keep - He was a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas, the National Parliament of Ireland. Per WP:Politician all members of national assemblies are auotmatically notable - Politicians and judges who have held international, national or sub-national (statewide/provincewide) office, and members or former members of a national, state or provincial legislature. Kindly withdraw the nomination. Spleodrach (talk) 15:10, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment - I suggest the nominator re-acquaint themselves with notability guidelines. Spleodrach (talk) 19:41, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep He was an elected member of the Dáil – isn't that enough to pass WP:N now?  Or is it just for America, where even candidates for an election are undeletable. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:52, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:06, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:06, 7 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep since subject, having been an MP, passes WP:NPOLITICIAN. -The Gnome (talk) 18:46, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep. Aside from inherent WP:Politician notability already noted, I can see some references in 1916 revolution books in Google books. Mcewan (talk) 20:31, 7 July 2018 (UTC)


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