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Proposed deletion of Tom mcgrath runner

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Proposed deletion of Tom McGrath (runner)

The article Tom McGrath (runner) has been proposed for deletion because, under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 20:30, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

July 2011

Please do not remove Biographies of Living Persons prods from an article unless it contains at least one reliable source or was created before 18 March 2010, as you did with Tom McGrath (runner). If you oppose the deletion of an article under this process, please consider sourcing the article or commenting at the respective talk page. Thank you. Please see this page for what is considered a "reliable" source. In general, blogs, wikis (including other Wikipedia pages), and websites affiliated with the subject are not considered reliable. There is one reliable source on the article (the NY Times article), but it does not verify any of the article's content. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 13:49, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Status and Advice

I saw a note about this on another page. What you need to do is to find references -- references providing substantial coverage from 3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases, or material derived from press releases. Guinness is not a satisfactory references by itself, but if he did what the article says, there should be good newspaper sources, and also reliable athletic sites. If, and only if, you can find the references, I think you could try the article again. Try to avoid anything that might be interpreted as praise of him, just list the accomplishments. But be sure there are good source, from the very first edit. Get the first, before you start to write. You might want to go about this by making a page User:Donnybrook2011/Tom McGrath (runner) and ask me or another admin to move it into mainspace for you. But don't even ask, or attempt to make even a page in your own space, without references. DGG ( talk ) 22:08, 30 July 2011 (UTC)