Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Kirk

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 14:40, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Matthew Kirk

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Ambassadors are not inherently notable. I don't believe the single source coverage here passes WP:GNG. Uhooep (talk) 14:22, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople, Politicians, Bilateral relations, Finland, and United Kingdom. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 15:28, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Few WP:ATD's in this case. For this subject, a clear ATD would be a redirect to his father Peter Kirk (English politician). Alternatively, this article can be deleted and Matthew Kirk (artist) can be moved to this title. Curbon7 (talk) 00:17, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Ambassadors are not inherently notable and this one clearly fails WP:BIO. LibStar (talk) 07:15, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I looked for Finnish language sourcing, and while there's a bunch of quotes (think "UK Ambassador Kirk said so-and-so about such-and-such" in a longer story about some event), the only even vaguely useful bits for this AfD I found are the following, from best to worst:

[1] 350 word bio/interview about Kirk quitting as an ambassador and starting at Vodafone. Despite its length, it's complete fluff with pretty much no encyclopedic value beyond the first two sentences, which give age, length of service as ambassador, and say that he is indeed starting at Vodafone.
[2] Finnish News Agency press release about Kirk's successor. Consists of four sentences, of which one is about Kirk.
[3] The whole story is a single sentence: Matthew Kirk has invited for a visit demonstrators opposing the Iraq War, and has organized events to familiarize people with the embassy. That's it. That's the article.

There's also a Kauppalehti story at [4], which I can't access it thru the paywall, but based on the 1 minute reading time, it's nothing extensive. Probably just regurgitates some press release, as so much of Kauppalehti coverage does. In totality, delete absent further sourcing. -Ljleppan (talk) 08:04, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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