Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patrick Flynn

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result of the debate was Keep, article completely reborn as disambig so no further contention. Master Thief Garrett^Talk 03:52, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Patrick Flynn

An article about a man whose main achievement appears to have been being first petty officer on a ship during WWII. A fine achievement, but not notable enough for an encyclopedia. A google search revealed lots of other people with the same name, but not him. Terrace4 02:00, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

• Delete→Iñgōlemo← ^talk 02:04, 2005 May 19 (UTC)

  The disambiguation is fine. Keep →Iñgōlemo← ^talk 18:42, 2005 May 19 (UTC)

• Either delete or write an article on my dad, who was also a first petty officer in WWII. Grutness...wha? 04:34, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Well done Jacobw. I added a dab template, since that's what this page now is. Keep. Grutness...wha? 13:24, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, not notable. Megan1967 06:04, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, not notable. Master Thief Garrett 11:15, 19 May 2005 (UTC) Keep, now recreated as disambig. Good job! Master Thief Garrett 13:16, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Once again, this is a case where a little detective work prior to a VFD would have made the VFD unnecessary. Before putting an article up for VFD, you should ALWAYS check "What links here". In this case, several articles on Canadian politics link to the Patrick Flynn article, and some google research indicates that the biography of the Canadian politician Patrick Flynn is indeed consistent with the info on this page. Matters are a little confused by the fact that Patrick Flynn is a common name. I've therefore turned Patrick Flynn into a disambiguation page, and created new pages for Patrick Flynn (Olympic athlete), Patrick Flynn (composer), and Patrick Flynn (Canadian politican). However, since I don't want to change the name of a page up for VfD, I can't rename the original page to indicate that it is now a disambiguation page. Perhaps the admin who closes the VfD can do so (assuming the vote ends up being keep.) --Jacobw 11:42, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Not entirely needed. A lot of disambig pages are simply "Name" rather than "Name (disambig)". It saves there being a redlink to "Name" which someone inevitably fills with a stub, leading to a duplicate article. Grutness...wha?
    • Um... "Politican"??? Grutness...wha?
      • I'm tempted to claim that "politican" is an obscure Irish-Canadian spelling, but alas, it was just a rather embarrassing typo on my part. Sorry about that. Thanks for catching it, Grutness. I've now fixed it on the various relevant pages. --Jacobw 14:51, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Good job, Jacobw. Keep. -- Hoary 12:53, 2005 May 19 (UTC)
• Keep and good job, as above. Kappa 13:13, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep--JiFish 13:23, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• KeepKlonimus 14:21, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
• Awesome keep - good job! I'm thinking of writing an article on the Magic of the Wikipedia vfd (but I won't, b/c it would be vfd'd). -- BD2412 ^talk 18:18, 2005 May 19 (UTC)
  • I would be happpy to see that in your userspace like Wiki-Hell. Master Thief Garrett^Talk 07:02, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: Now this article has changed unrecognisably from the original point of contention, can we close this? We seem to have a consensus, and I don't think it's right to have a useful disambig up for Vfd. I'm going to close this (unless someone else does it first!) if no-one protests fairly soon. Master Thief Garrett^Talk 07:08, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Close with Keep. Klonimus 22:19, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

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.