Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Henry Reilly (Northern Irish politician)

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The result was delete. --PeaceNT (talk) 14:22, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Henry Reilly (Northern Irish politician)[edit]

Non-notable local councillor, no references to substantial coverage in reliable sources, so fails WP:N and WP:BIO#Politicians. At first glance, I thought that he looked notable for having achieved some coverage of his view on EU funding, but the reference for that section turns out to be to just a link to the homepage of a UKIP blog (http://ukipswindonsouth.blogspot.com/). --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:07, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions. . --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:08, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete. At first glance, he may seem notable because he has been covered multiple times as a result of his job as a politician. But there isn't much in the way of covering what he has done, or anything that makes him stand out from other politicians. Celarnor ^{Talk to me} 17:09, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - no claim to inherent notability under WP:BIO, and insufficient apparent coverage to meet WP:N. No prejudice against re-creation if coverage is found. As an aside, I really like referring to defeated incumbents as being "eliminated". Sarcasticidealist (talk) 21:22, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- It's a consequence of the single transferable vote system used in Ireland, north and south. Having lowest-placed candidates eliminated at the end of a round of vote-counting (with their votes then redistributed) is a huge improvement on the other sort of elimination, which unfortunately was not unknown in Ireland at various points in the 20th century. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - defection to UKIP generated some small attention, and being the only UKIP candidate contesting the Assembly election generated this article which basically confirms the substance of the current article, but this isn't enough to demonstrate notability. Warofdreams talk 01:40, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 14:04, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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