The result was delete; fails WP:BIO#Politicians. - Philippe 04:44, 17 April 2008 (UTC) reply
Another unreferenced stub on a non-notable local councillor in Ireland. There are two external links, one to his party's website and one to that of his employer, the Electricity Supply Board of which he is a worker director. A Google News search throws 11 hits, but none of them seem to amount to anything like the substantial coverage required by WP:BIO#Politicians to establish notability for local councillors. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 16:46, 11 April 2008 (UTC) reply
I don't see any sign of evidence that McGinley "been written about, in depth, independently in multiple news feature articles, by journalists". I did a search of the Irish Times archives for "John McGinley" which threw up 151 hits, but most of them are about a Garda from County Donegal who featured in the Morris Tribunal. So I searched again, this time for "John McGinley" kildare, and got 20 hits, but none of the articles are actually about him. The closest I can see to something about him is two articles speculating that he might be the Labour candidate in a by-election: this one first mentions his name in paragraph 14, and this one in para 10, but there is only one name-mention in each case, and in the end he didn't win the nomination for the Kildare North by-election, 2005, and I can't even find any evidence of him actually having put his name forward for selection. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 14:59, 15 April 2008 (UTC) replyGenerally, a person who is "part of the enduring historical record" will have been written about, in depth, independently in multiple history books on that field, by historians. A politician who has received "significant press coverage" has been written about, in depth, independently in multiple news feature articles, by journalists. An actor who has been featured in magazines has been written about, in depth, independently in multiple magazine feature articles, by magazine article writers. An actor or TV personality who has "an independent biography" has been written about, in depth, in a book, by an independent biographer.