Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gillian McMahon

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The result of the debate was Nomination withdrawn by nominator. Viridae ^Talk 05:20, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gillian McMahon[edit]

The author, User:Beta, has been creating a number of articles for professors at Dublin City University. Beta said on his/her talk page: "The Irish academics category was very small, I thought I'd do my bit to flesh it out a bit." While I appreciate the effort, I don't see any notability asserted. Nomination withdrawn, see below. Aplomado ^talk 21:54, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also listed for possible deletion:

I may have missed a few, but that appears to be most of them.

--Aplomado ^talk 20:54, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep all for now. The ones I looked at seem to have a number of publications, possibly making them notable enough. These all need to be assessed individually. up+land 21:31, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: User:Beta made the following point on his/her talk page: Many of the academics on the first part of the notable academics list Here are well known in Ireland and have been on debating programmmes on television over here. Aplomado ^talk 21:32, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For example Michael Cronin is one of the most prominent translation experts in Ireland and Peadar Kirby is regularly consulted on political issues on television in Ireland. He is also the head of the Centre for international studies in Dublin City University.

If you wish to start removing some of them you should try to distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant using some criteria like the google search criteria, the number of publications or the importance of publications Beta

Comment Even though it's a pain, I agree we should take these on a case-by-case basis. Some of these professors only have one book listed. Does this meet the notability requirement? It's really tough to determine without the context a longer description would give. That's why I put the {{context}} tags on some of the articles (although it got to the point where they were being posted faster than I could keep up). Irongargoyle 21:51, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I agree. I'll withdraw the nomination for now. I think Beta has a better idea now what is notable and what is not. That stuff you mentioned about Cronin should be put in the article and sourced. I think we should give Beta a little time to improve the articles that are notable so that we can exclude them from the ones that are not. Aplomado ^talk 21:54, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll try to sort them out this weekend. Beta

I suppose that these articles are a bit obscure and could be removed immediately, I think the rest require more consideration.

Beta

Comment left on your talk page regarding {{db-author}}. Viridae ^Talk 05:15, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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