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Dundrum and Patrick Neary

Latest comment: 13 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

A chara Highking,

Patrick Neary is a houshold name (abeit for the wrong reasons)and he does live in Dundrum as referenced by several media reports. Rather than get involved in an edit war with you I would appreciate your thoughts on why this comparitively simple matter should be withheld from people looking at Wikipedia. I have come across your work before and admire your contributions to the Irish entries in particular.

Is mise le meas.

Glic16 (talk) 21:59, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi - it's a matter of notability. One of the simplest tests for notability is to check if the person in question has a Wikipedia article. Now, that's not a hard and fast rule, but a useful rule-of-thumb nonetheless. In this case, Patrick doesn't have an article, so I removed the reference. Check out WP:NOTNEWS in particular where it states "Wikipedia considers the enduring notability of persons and events". --HighKing (talk) 15:41, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Highking,

Point taken.

Thanks,

Glic16 (talk) 20:59, 18 January 2011 (UTC)