Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Paul McDonald

Richard Paul McDonald

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Not a notable individual, by Wikipedia's standards. An effort has obviously been made to puff up the article, but there's no evidence of significant coverage in independent reliable sources. Dawn Bard (talk) 23:07, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Richard has built a massive following in recent years on his various social media platforms and in academic debating circles in London and Dublin. I have followed his progress since he won the Young Black Achiever's award and he has done well to raise social issues in both public and social media spheres. I personally think his role as a young politically active person-of-colour makes him needing of a wikipedia entry. He is currently scheduled to attend many debates this year and this is the perfect time for an online biography of Richard to exist! Reliable sources often do not pay attention to young academics, young black academics at that, so it is understandable that 'independent sources' are hard to come by. I have gone to great trouble to do research on Richard's life and obtain his permission for the photo to be included and feel that he is one of few academics really causing a stir at a grassroots level today. His activism is well documented and known in academic spheres. It might be worth noting that I do not know Richard Personally, I came across his work as a volunteer for the Labour Party during his work at the youth gym in Nottingham. 00:38, 11th October 2014 (GMT)

User:Wikitruth93 (talk)

Delete. Sounds like a nice guy, but I'm afraid he isn't quite there in terms of notability yet. Wikipedia's strict guidelines on biographies of living people demand that reliable sources exist and are cited, and they just don't yet. Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 23:48, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Significant coverage in reliable, independent sources is lacking for this 20 year old fellow. Such coverage is the only way we could verify his "massive following", whatever that means. No plausible claim to notability is offered. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 01:07, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

keep and clean up I have added references and photos to substantiate claims made in the article including Richard's work in fashion. By 'Massive following' I mean his social network following and invitations to public debates Wikitruth93 (talk) 01:21, 11 October 2014 (UTC) I have also added an explicit rationale for his notability on the introductory paragraph on his page Wikitruth93 (talk) 01:23, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and remove false claims Richard McDonald is a well known member of the Nottingham City Community, and contributes to many current social issues. His input as a Nottingham citizen far outweighs that of citizens such as Paul McMahon who has had a page for years without any contribution beyond cricket in the Nottingham community. To ignore Richard's contributions would be discriminatory on racist, ableist, homophobic and religious grounds. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roshanah (talk • contribs) 03:32, 11 October 2014 (UTC) — Roshanah (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

Please assume good faith when it comes to the people arguing for deletion of this article. Your comments insinuate that the people arguing for deletion are only doing so because they are discriminating against him, which can be seen as an attack against these editors. Continuing to make comments such as these will not only be seen as an attack and make it more likely that you may be blocked for attacking other editors, but it will also greatly decrease the value of your argument and in some cases, make the closing admin disregard your argument entirely. Also, please be aware that the existence of other pages (WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS) does not mean that this article will pass notability guidelines. The other pages might fail notability guidelines or the individual may pass based on coverage- either way, the existence of other articles does not mean that this article should or shouldn't remain. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:21, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Poetry-related deletion discussions. lavender|(formerlyHMSSolent|lambast 05:29, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. lavender|(formerlyHMSSolent|lambast 05:30, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and clean up Well this is strange...I actually went to see a live debate in modern problems in africa last night with Richard in! I don't really see why his notability is up for debate; he is known in academic circles (for which independent 'evidence' is hard to come by) and as far as i'm concerned his breadth of involvement in things definitely makes him notable. How many young bi-racial academics do you know who have also modelled for topshop? The boy deserves a wiki! Jimijewel (talk) 10:57, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]