Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/José Tomás

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 keep. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 00:59, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

José Tomás

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Poorly written, zero citations. Was this person really a person of note (no pun intended)? Sure, they were a student of some famous people. And probably well-loved as a decent human being and excellent guitarist. But i'm not seeing a lot of original work by this teacher of guitar. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.30.130.71 (talk • contribs) 16:05, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: this is not my AFD, I'm good-faith submitting it for the IP who wanted it. tedder (talk) 11:59, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. -- --Darkwind (talk) 12:25, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Spain-related deletion discussions. -- --Darkwind (talk) 12:25, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The article was a mess, but this was a very famous guitarist. I have completely re-written the article and referenced it. I would remind the anonymous IP that Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. See some poor English? See an article needing references? The answer is do a Google search or head down to your local library and fix it, not delete it. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 16:29, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - a good example of an article that should be improved rather than deleted, and AfD is not the best process to make this happen. Good work by Voceditenore in cleaning things up. DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 23:47, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's a bit of a paradox, because this article only became improved once it was sent to AfD. However, I discovered it here purely by chance. It could just as easily have been deleted. I would suggest to others that when encountering an article like this, they first let relevant WikiProjects know about the problems, e.g. WikiProject Classical music and WikiProject Spain. You're much more likely to find editors with knowledge of the area and an ability to read foreign language sources who could rescue it. As a general rule, I am not in favour of allowing anonymous IPs with little or no previous contributions to Wikipedia to file AfDs by proxy. Voceditenore (talk) 13:58, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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.