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The result of the debate was DELETE. Postdlf 23:20, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

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Rory Conroy

(UTC not-notable and article is obvious nonesense. Notjim 00:05, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

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2.      "Rory Conroy", as an actor by that name, is not known to exist. As a physicist or Irish historian, he has no articles or textbooks in university libraries that a number of Wikipedians, including myself, have been able to find. As a martial arts master, his achievements cannot be verified.

3.      The claims that Rory Conroy are Ruaidhri Conroy cannot be handily verified.

4.      If Rory Conroy is Ruaidhri Conroy, it is unusual that this fact was not mentioned on the page until after the Articles for Deletion notice went up. Surely the name he was credited under would at least be worth a mention in a fairly comprehensive article written by what must be a very knowledgeable fan!

5.      He is mentioned as playing key roles in the Irish dramas "Fair City" and "Batchelor's [sic] Walk". IMDB lists "Fair City" as an Irish television series beginning in 1988. No Conroy, Rory or Ruaidhri, is credited. IMDB does not list a "Batchelor's Walk", however, "Bachelor's Walk" is listed as an Irish television series that ran from 2001 to 2003. No Conroy, Rory or Ruaidhri, is credited.

6.      Mr. Conroy is listed as a recipient of the "Best Young European Physicist of the Year" award. No such award is mentioned on Google. The awarding body is the European Science Foundation, which has no reference to a "Conroy" on its website.

7.      Mr. Conroy is not listed as a recipient of the 1998 Theatre World Award for his role in Martin McDonagh's "The Cripple of Inishmaan", despite the fact that Ruaidhri Conroy did win this award. Another glaring omission in what is otherwise a fairly comprehensive article.

8.      Pictures of Ruaidhri Conroy available online (such as this one and this one) show a non-glasses-wearer with dark hair who doesn't look a thing like the picture in the article. The picture in the article does not appear online in a Google image search for "Ruaidhri Conroy", nor for "Rory Conroy".

9.      This page is supported by an unusually large number of sockpuppet votes, which, while not an indication of the article by itself, is worth considering on top of the other evidence, listed in part above.

Yours very sincerely and respectfully, Lord Bob 20:31, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

          

         If Ruaidhri is Irish for Rory (which, to my very considerable surprise, it actually seems to be!), then why why why wasn't his actual freakin' name mentioned in the article?!? He's credited under Ruaidhri everywhere. He appears as "Rory Conroy" nowhere. Two of the credits in the article, if IMDB is to be believed, are absolute lies. His academic background seems to be total fiction. The stuff on martial arts seems to be dubious at best. There are important omissions and facts that are false in the pre-AfD'd article (and in the present version). Heck, for all I know the author of the article also happens to be named "Rory Conroy" and is doing his damndest to pass himself off as the more famous Ruaidhri. You say that my referring to sockpuppets when a bunch of first-time users and anonymous IPs unanimously vote to keep an article demeans my other points. I could have called you anything I want but it wouldn't change the reality that my points are real, unassailled facts that could be disproved very easily if the article were actually true. A reference on the ESF's website to Conroy's award. Known and documented pseudonyms that he also performs and writes under, so as to explain the discrepancies in the claimed and his actual credits. Something on his martial arts work, or his album. Proof of his involvement with Sigur Ros during their December 2004 Irish concert stop, despite the fact that their official page claims they neither toured in December 2004 nor appeared in Ireland all of that year. If you could actually verify all of those things, my argument would collapse utterly. But you can't. That's why you haven't, despite repeated calls from different editors to do so. That's why the only way you can try and win this AfD is by flooding the ballot box, rather than by actually convincing us of your point of view. I don't care if you think it cheapens my argument: this vote is supported by sockpuppets, barring you actually revealing solid evidence this vote will be to delete, and this hoax of an article will die. And I will be a little happier because it did. Lord Bob 21:23, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

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