::::::::::Where does it say in the MOS about "a source that explicitly has self-identification"? You are just making things up to suit you're obvious agenda. The sources provided refer to the sportsperson as Irish and one of the sources has a picture of him wrapping the Irish tricolor around him and his nickname is 'Ireland's" John Duddy. Only an idiot would suggest that he wasn't Irish and it is a nail in the coffin that proves what editor like you are all about. 
 ::::::::::Proof of canvassing is .