Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alan Kirby
May not pass , but I'd be interested in knowing the basis for nominator's decision that this particular subject "has not&nbsp;... received significant media coverage". It's a damn sight quicker to for an enthusiastic nominator to put up dozens of these things every week, apparently indiscriminately, than it is to find the time to actually look up whether they do pass  or not, let alone to produce enough evidence to convince at AfD, and definitely let alone putting said evidence into decent English prose on the page in question. Which makes it inevitable that notable subjects are being deleted.Google-searching the ''Irish Independent'' website produces numerous results, most of which are obviously minor mentions in match reports, but there are some with more than trivial content, e.g. (from the regional press) http://www.independent.ie/regionals/fingalindependent/sport/soccer/kirby-eyeing-amazing-treble-27797404.html, http://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligochampion/sport/soccer/fai-cup-quarterfinal-battle-of-the-rovers-preview-27584112.html. When he was with St Pat's they got through the qualifying rounds of the UEFA Cup to the First round,http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2009/clubs/club=50133/matches/index.html which is probably the same as the Play-off round today so wouldn't confer football notability, but holding Hertha Berlin to a draw and a fighting 2&ndash;0 defeat got a bit of coverage.The earliest mention I can find in a quick search of the ''Irish Times'' archive (accessing via library, so can't do urls, but I'll include enough citation so anyone with access can confirm) is from a long-ish preview of Ireland's semifinal in the 1997 edition of what is now called the FIFA U20 World Cup, which briefly speculates on whether Kirby will be used in a man-marking role against Pablo Aimar ("Tired Irish again try to defy odds", 2 July 1997, p.19) and incidentally mentions his father Dave having been a footballer. The Irish squad for that tournament were followed for a strand in the RTÉ magazine programme ''The Soccer Show'' ("World U-20 Championship: The television producer", 27 Dec 1997, p.A7). There's a post-2004 FAI Cup final piece contrasting his reaction to scoring a goal that beat his former club Waterford with the elation of the other goalscorer ("Pleasure and pain for United old boy", 25 Oct 2004, p.A2). A piece about the miraculous effects on Mr Kirby of a return to full-time professionalism with St Pat's ("Strikingly good times for Kirby and St Patrick's", 13 Apr 2007, p.19). Contrasted with a long piece from two years later focussing on the fear of the out-of-contract footballer with bills to pay and Mr Kirby's gratitude for a part-time contract in the second tier, which he was combining with taking a business degree at Dublin City University ("Bookies believe Fingal have more than a sporting chance", 5 Mar 2009, p.27). And the usual amount of routine match-related coverage over a long career, i.e. a lot. cheers
— User:Struway2, 13:08, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NFOOTY||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)