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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) sst ✈ 08:04, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oliver Byrne[edit]

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Non-notable person, fails WP:GNG, WP:BIO and WP:NFOOTBALL JMHamo (talk) 19:12, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to Shelbourne F.C. as a possible search term, but not independently notable. Giant Snowman 19:27, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - this article seems a WP:COATRACK as it seems to consist mostly of cherry-picked controversial moments in his life, and he does not seem to meet WP:GNG. I am not averse to a redirect to Shelbourne F.C. as a search term. — Jkudlick ^tc_s 19:48, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Mr Byrne has ongoing coverage of his career in football administration in the Irish press. There may be coverage of his beginnings in the Dublin music scene, I'm not competent to know where to look. He was a controversial character, which is a major reason why he got rather more coverage than the average football club adminstrator: if you're checking search engines, look for him as "Ollie Byrne", not Oliver.
A decent-length obituary in a major national newspaper used to pretty much mean an automatic keep at AfD. There may be non-notable subjects who, in addition to that, have their country's prime minister lead the tributes at their funeral and have an award-winning radio documentary made about their life for broadcast on a national channel several years after their death, but I don't suppose there are many. An Irish Independent piece about the documentary and Byrne in general is entitled "Irish football is in need of another like Ollie Byrne". cheers, Struway2 (talk) 20:41, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Multiple independent, national-level articles on the individual cited both in this discussion and in the article itself show GNG. None on their own would suffice, but there seem to me to have been sufficient "incidents" that he was involved in that generated coverage for him to be a notable person within football. Fenix down (talk) 08:23, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Per Struway2's argument above. Finnegas (talk) 16:03, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - enough coverage from reliable third-party sources Spiderone 10:42, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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