Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Edward O'Hara


 * 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 was: Deleted.. --Aphaia 21:28, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Edward O'Hara
I'm not sure about this one. The subject has an article, or at any rate a stub, at Wikipedia, from which it seems that his notability consists of having been a backbench Member of Parliament since 1990. This is good enough for WP but is it good enough for us? The two quotations that make up the WQ page are, I should have said, fairly unremarkable and pithless slabs of Parliamentary oratory taken from Hansard. Antiquary 19:10, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 20:00, 6 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete. Eddie O'Hara is one of the more obscure of the 646 current British MPs, mostly known for being the Chairman of Standing Committees (in which role he doesn't speak). I suspect the only reason he's here is that he happens to agree with one of our more .. opinionated .. contributors on the issue of which particular plot of the earth should get to call itself "Macedonia". However, this is not exactly the biggest issue in British politics and these quotes are simply not notable in the grand scheme of things. Fys. &#147;Ta fys aym&#148;. 19:53, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment inclining to delete. All three quotes looks me too long ... I have no clue what are specially significant parts among them. Also their entire significance to UK politics and diplomatics as well Macedonian history. It would be worthwhile to note that, while we have several historical significant quotes like Abraham Lincorn's Gettisburg address,  they are however much more consice than those quotes.  --Aphaia 20:55, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: The quotes look too long.--Jusjih 01:01, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. As alluded to above, this was one of numerous stub pages created by an editor with a focus on quotes about Macedonia. In response to a suggestion from UDScott, the editor created an article on Macedonia which incorporated the quotations from these various pages.  The Edward O'Hara quotes can be found here.  The  transfer of quotations makes this article superfluous.  - InvisibleSun 03:24, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Highly notable (Chairman of Standing Committees is an important role) but we don't go just by notability here; we also need reasonable quotes.--Poetlister 16:22, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
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