User talk:Wfbrooks/D. W. Cooper

Cooper's importance
As requested by Ad Orientem, I'm inserting here a brief explanation of the "notability" of D. W. Cooper.

D. W. Cooper is a particularly important example of the social and cultural place of small-scale music publishers outside the main ambitus of "Tin Pan Alley." In addition to his professional relationships with a number of New York firms, he provided an entry point into the music industry for notable figures like Jimmy McHugh. Like many regional publishers he appears intermittently but persistently in New York trade journals like Variety, The Billboard, and The New York Clipper. More importantly, over the past decade on-line digital sheet-music repositories at Brown, Indiana, and other institutions have made Cooper's publications freely available, and they are indexed and catalogued in several secondary sources. All this suggests that an article on Cooper is not only appropriate but also necessary.

Wfbrooks (talk) 09:28, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Yesterday (September 14), Ad Orientem proposed D. W. Cooper for deletion for a second time. Without more precise information about his or her motivations, I'm at a loss to respond further, and I would suggest that he/she (and other concerned parties) see the explanation above. I'm happy to offer further comments, but not without more precise guidance.

Wfbrooks (talk) 19:50, 15 September 2014 (UTC)


 * See my response on the AfD. -Ad Orientem (talk) 15:22, 16 September 2014 (UTC)