Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John McGinley (politician)
The General Secretary of the Labour Party (Ireland)|Irish Labour Party is not at all a high-profile role; it's a an important job in the party, but it's a backroom job, and the gen sec would usually have very little public name recognition. The http://archives.tcm.ie/kildarenationalist/2006/05/18/story22931.asp ref which you reinstated does mention McGinley, but it's not ''about'' him, it's about the N9 road and he gets a few quotes in it; that doesn't establish notability. I don't have access to the Liffey Champion, but I'll take your word that he gets regular mentions there; however even that coverage is in articles ''about'' him, that doesn't establish notability per #Politicians. The guideline refers to "Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage.7". That Wikipedia:BIO#cite_note-note6-6|footnote7 says Generally, a person who is "part of the enduring historical record" will have been written about, in depth, independently in multiple history books on that field, by historians. A politician who has received "significant press coverage" has been written about, in depth, independently in multiple news feature articles, by journalists. An actor who has been featured in magazines has been written about, in depth, independently in multiple magazine feature articles, by magazine article writers. An actor or TV personality who has "an independent biography" has been written about, in depth, in a book, by an independent biographer. I don't see any sign of evidence that McGinley "been written about, in depth, independently in multiple news feature articles, by journalists". I did a http://www.ireland.com/search/index.html?rm=listresults&filter=datedesc&keywords=%22John+McGinley%22&daterange= search of the Irish Times archives for ''"John McGinley"'' which threw up 151 hits, but most of them are about a Garda from County Donegal who featured in the Morris Tribunal. So I http://www.ireland.com/search/index.html?rm=listresults&filter=datedesc&keywords=%22John+McGinley%22+kildare&daterange=custom&day1=1&mon1=1&year1=1996&day2=15&mon2=4&year2=2008 searched again, this time for ''"John McGinley" kildare'', and got 20 hits, but none of the articles are actually ''about'' him. The closest I can see to something about him is two articles speculating that he might be the Labour candidate in a by-election: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2004/0910/1091051927793.html this one first mentions his name in paragraph 14, and http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2004/0910/1091051927793.html this one in para 10, but there is only one name-mention in each case, and in the end he didn't win the nomination for the Kildare North by-election, 2005, and I can't even find any evidence of him actually having put his name forward for selection
— User:BrownHairedGirl, 14:59, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
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Cited policy: WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)