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Delete.
WP:GNG is a measure of an article's sourceability, not of anything that the article says in its text. Of the nine sources here, six are
primary or unreliable sources that cannot assist notability at all, and he isn't the subject of any of the three remaining
reliable sources — two of them just glancingly namecheck his existence a single time in coverage of something else, and he's the bylined author, not the subject, of the third. This is not how a person gets over GNG.
Bearcat (
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06:31, 18 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete being on one of the meriads of "top x number y people in z" lists does not make someone notable, especially since these are usually annaul lists. His actual level as a politician also does not make him notable.
John Pack Lambert (
talk)
15:36, 23 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete - at a superficial first glance this looks like an obvious keep. However, a deeper analysis has led me to opt for delete.
The article lists nine sources. Let's evaluate each of them in terms of how they satisfy notability guidelines.
...is from the BBC, which is a reliable source. However, it only mentions Walsh in passing and does not indicate his contributions to the LGBT community which led to him receiving this accolade - if you can call it that.
...is similarly just a passing mention that just states he is on the list.
...gives him the most coverage of all of the sources but is still woefully short of establishing notability and merely quotes Walsh on a certain topic and then carries on.
His inclusion on a list which has gained media attention does not mean he inherits notability from the list.
For what it's worth, it could be argued that this is a
one-event case as all the coverage came around the time of legalisation of gay marriage - an argument I myself would not consider to be particularly pressing given the extended source rebuttal I have provided.
Furthermore, his political position alone is a failure of
politician notability guidelines so inclusion on that criterion is out as well.
Delete not only as per DrStrauss and Bearcat, but also because with political activists and minor politicians, I like to see at least one profile in an independent source, preferably by a journalist in a widely recognized publication; here, however, the closest we get to an article about him is his linked-in profile and a post on teh organization of a political activism organization. Although it may merely be
WP:TOOSOON, Walsh's notability is not validated by
WP:SIGCOV.
E.M.Gregory (
talk)
19:43, 3 October 2017 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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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.
Delete.
WP:GNG is a measure of an article's sourceability, not of anything that the article says in its text. Of the nine sources here, six are
primary or unreliable sources that cannot assist notability at all, and he isn't the subject of any of the three remaining
reliable sources — two of them just glancingly namecheck his existence a single time in coverage of something else, and he's the bylined author, not the subject, of the third. This is not how a person gets over GNG.
Bearcat (
talk)
06:31, 18 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete being on one of the meriads of "top x number y people in z" lists does not make someone notable, especially since these are usually annaul lists. His actual level as a politician also does not make him notable.
John Pack Lambert (
talk)
15:36, 23 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete - at a superficial first glance this looks like an obvious keep. However, a deeper analysis has led me to opt for delete.
The article lists nine sources. Let's evaluate each of them in terms of how they satisfy notability guidelines.
...is from the BBC, which is a reliable source. However, it only mentions Walsh in passing and does not indicate his contributions to the LGBT community which led to him receiving this accolade - if you can call it that.
...is similarly just a passing mention that just states he is on the list.
...gives him the most coverage of all of the sources but is still woefully short of establishing notability and merely quotes Walsh on a certain topic and then carries on.
His inclusion on a list which has gained media attention does not mean he inherits notability from the list.
For what it's worth, it could be argued that this is a
one-event case as all the coverage came around the time of legalisation of gay marriage - an argument I myself would not consider to be particularly pressing given the extended source rebuttal I have provided.
Furthermore, his political position alone is a failure of
politician notability guidelines so inclusion on that criterion is out as well.
Delete not only as per DrStrauss and Bearcat, but also because with political activists and minor politicians, I like to see at least one profile in an independent source, preferably by a journalist in a widely recognized publication; here, however, the closest we get to an article about him is his linked-in profile and a post on teh organization of a political activism organization. Although it may merely be
WP:TOOSOON, Walsh's notability is not validated by
WP:SIGCOV.
E.M.Gregory (
talk)
19:43, 3 October 2017 (UTC)reply
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