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The result was keep. Sufficient coverage to establish notability. (non-admin closure) ♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ ^Talk ^Email 11:08, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Donnelly[edit]

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Contested Prod - Not notable as a singer or actor. Larkspurs (talk) 22:13, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - yes, I agree a minor regional celebrity but well above the bar of notability. Remember, Wikipedia is NOT paper - we have fairly liberal standards for inclusion. Google news returns multiple hits, subject is on TV multiple times a year and in multiple charity spots, and by comparison, we have articles for most reality tv show contestants, Donnelly regionally is far more notable than most reality tv show contestants nationally. -- Tawker (talk) 22:40, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, probably GNews returns one hit for me; there is another Mark Donnelly, a playwright, who generates other hits. Every hit I get about this guy is a passing reference to his singing O Canada at hockey games; other than that he has apparently no history whatsoever. This seems too small a foundation on which to erect a biography. Mangoe (talk) 02:33, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Articles in the Vancouver Sun[1][2], Toronto Star[3], an editorial (no less) in the Vancouver Province[4], his own entry on the Canucks site[5], and appearances on TV[6] all indicate that we should stand on guard for he. Clarityfiend (talk) 03:32, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Clarityfiend has convinced me. Yes, he just sings O Canada...at hockey games...in Canada! The Steve 09:01, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. — frankie (talk) 19:18, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Sufficient coverage to establish notability based on the coverage presented above. It would appear that Canadians think singing the national anthem at hockey games is notable, as odd as thay may seem to the rest of the world, cf. Roger Doucet. -- Whpq (talk) 14:58, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

An uncharacteristic quirk, I must admit, from an otherwise overtly non-nationalistic people, but at least he's not Roseanne Barr. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:04, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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