Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Declan Sheehan (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 05:10, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Declan Sheehan[edit]

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Unclear notability as per WP:BIO, none of the sources go beyond the trivial. The overall notability of this person is unclear, likely not notable. Ari T. Benchaim (talk) 01:53, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comment To clarify, the previous AfD discussion was about British rugby league player. Declan Sheehan. So this discussion should be taken independent of that. - Bogger (talk) 10:46, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople, Economics, and Ireland. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 08:15, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. A WP:BEFORE exercise has returned a small number of examples coverage (of which the subject is the primary topic). While I have added these to the article, I do not see that there is sufficient coverage to meet WP:SIGCOV or WP:ANYBIO. (The coverage is the type of interviews and "pen pics" common for business people at a certain level in some verticals, and not sufficiently numerous or of sufficient depth to meet the related criteria.) Other than those (2 or 3?) pieces of coverage, the only substantial biographical source is the lovely/heartfelt obituary. And obituaries of this type aren't (on their own) normally considered contributory to notability (an obituary isn't a biography). While WP:ATD expects us to consider keeping/merging/redirecting where appropriate, I cannot conceive of where the content might be moved and/or the title redirect. Hence mine is a "delete" recommendation. Guliolopez (talk) 17:17, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Staff obituaries certainly count toward notability. This seems to fall into a grey zone - it's not one of those paid up notices, but it's not a dispassionate staff piece either. Atchom (talk) 01:57, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - fails WP:Notability Spleodrach (talk) 00:33, 4 May 2022 (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 talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.