Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beniamino Borciani

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Completely unsourced, with no references, this article fails WP:V. During the AfD minor sources were mentioned but no editor was prepared to add them to the article. Fewer than 15 Google hits, and some of those are duplicates, with none unequivocally demonstrating the meeting of WP:N. Being a member of a notable choir does not convey personal notability. I will happily userfy if anyone wants to source up the page in which case I have no objection to its recreation. TerriersFan 03:40, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Beniamino Borciani

This article was nominated for speedy deletion per A7, non-notability. While the article needs to be wikified, cleaned up and referenced, a Google test suggests that he is notable enough for Wikipedia. Examples are this recording on Amazon.com, this mention at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival ("The young Beniamino Borciani (surely up well past his bedtime) performed 'My brother is a Luftwaffe pilot' with a naive simplicity that made the tragedy of the final verse all the more affecting.") and this review at IndieLondon. I'm moving this to AfD instead. Procedural listing, no opinion for the moment. Aecis^Brievenbus 12:33, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. Surely too young to have achieved any real notability to date. WWGB 12:44, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
  • I'm not sure this particular person is notable enough for Wikipedia, but age does not indicate non-notability or marginal notability. Borciani is older than Charlotte Church when she broke through. Aecis^Brievenbus 12:53, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep — I think the article attempts to assert notability through its comment about the critics. Although not cited well, This youth is a member of a very notable choir. I agree that age is no measure of notability. JodyB _talk 15:40, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep that ludicrous sounding title is actually a song by Kurt Weill. He has also sung the shepherd's song from Tannhauser, not necessarily a major accomplishment, but he sang it at La Scala. 23:43, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.