Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert A. King (composer)

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The result was keep. Tone 19:37, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Robert A. King (composer)[edit]

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Fails notability guideline. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 06:52, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. @User:DeltaQuad it is very, very unhelpful to post multiple AfD proposals with identical rationales for deletion that do not give assessors even the slightest indication that you have done even the most basic work necessary WP:BEFORE you can justify wiping out the work of other editors, nor any idea why you believe the article should be deleted. You're saying only that this "fails the notability guideline", but not how. Sources are given on the page - why are these deficient for sustaining notability? I have no idea based on what you've told us. I see you're an experienced editor which makes this even harder to understand. FOARP (talk) 16:32, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@FOARP: I don't have much time right now to go through all the AFDs, but I will spill out the WP:BEFORE for this one.

I have read Wikipedia policies and understand them.
This is not a speedy deletion candidate.
Searches through websites do not how the specific guideline for creative professionals is satisfied.
All additional checks don't yield anything.
Improving doesn't address inherit notability issues.
I already talked about sources.

-- Amanda (aka DQ) 05:13, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per WP:BASIC and WP:NEXIST. I believe sources exist to sustain the notability of this composer. This is a very complicated issue since King appears to have written under a large number of pseudonyms, but searching under Robert Keiser (another pseudonym of King - or even his real name?) brought up a number of sources that are not available in full online but appear to discuss him in detail. These sources appear to be independent RS's. See particularly 1 2 FOARP (talk) 16:52, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
WP:SNOW Keep conspicuous notability: multiple bluelinked songs, discussed in books about songwriters of the era. Yet another in an inexplicable series of rapid-fire AfD nominations of notable writers, artists and composers by an editor who appears not to have considered WP:BEFORE.E.M.Gregory (talk) 00:53, 19 December 2018 (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.