Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frederic Woodman Root

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 00:18, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Frederic Woodman Root[edit]

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Not notable, his father is though. Definitely does not meet WP:GNG. Jerod Lycett (talk) 18:27, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:29, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:30, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Frederick W. Root had an extensive career as a choir leader, composer, choral arranger and vocal instructor. I have a subscription to Newspapers.com; I found over two hundred references to him in the papers there. Many (but not all) of the ones in Chicago where he lived were just local trivial, but there are reports of his musical activities or compositions and arrangements in papers in California, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico as well as several places in Illinois. HERE are a few references that I intend to use as citations when I get time to edit the text carefully. I included a short description beside the ones where a subscription is needed. There is an extensive article about him in The Voice. In spite of being tagged as possibly unreliable, this New York publication has an editor listed on the front page, and appears to have been a monthly journal in its tenth year of publication. This means he was known from coast to coast. —Anne Delong (talk) 22:18, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Additional comment: The two spellings of the first name, Frederic and Frederick, plus the references being split up between those with a complete middle name, those with an initial, and those without, cause a quick search on any one of the six combinations to show only a few hits, a lot of these buried among items about his better known father, whose middle name was Frederic(k). Also a lot of the information was in subscription-based databases which Google doesn't pick up.—Anne Delong (talk) 16:04, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Strong keep As per the suggestion by Anne Delong that she knew there were sources available to help show this person's notability, I became BOLD and made a good attempt to expand, and further reference this article using WP:RS. With significant coverage across numerous sources, this article passes WP:GNG , and also places the article subject across the threshold of WP:N notability. Cheers! WordSeventeen (talk) 07:39, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep-per what Anne Delong said. Wgolf (talk) 19:30, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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