Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arrau Medal


 * 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 no consensus. Feel free to merge. Petros471 12:51, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Arrau Medal
delete award from The Robert Schumann Society. I never knew how many sites picked up content from wiki until I started looking for the society. "Robert Schumann Society" scored 79 unique out of 1140Ghits. "Robert Schumann Society" + duesseldorf scored 58 unique hits out of 106Ghits. The vast majority are from sites which take content from wikipedia. The organisation's own website is hosted on aol and has no Alexa rank. The Robert Schumann Society may have some important patrons, and a 25 year history, but little presence on the web, which could be due to cultural/systematic bias. Little appears to be verifiable. Thus unable to judge importance of the Society or the award. The society's page has been blanked out as copyvio of the society's site. The award has no web visibility. 2 unique Ghits for "Arrau award", both were for award winning recordings by Claudio Arrau. The Award could be merged with the Society's own page. Ohconfucius 08:53, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep The three recipients of the medal listed are certainly notable, and there seem to be numerous references on the web to both Perahia and Schiff as winners of it. BTLizard 11:54, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * The Robert-Schumann-Gesellschaft in Düsseldorf publishes a scholarly catalogue of Schumann's works, a series of critical editions of his compositions (Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke, 1991-) and other Schumann-related publications - this can be verified through your favorite online library catalogue. It also appears that they arrange (or have for some time arranged) an annual Schumann festival with extremely notable people like Murray Perahia, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Olaf Bär participating (2000 festival, claimed to be the seventh). That the website is on AOL is not really relevant, as the notability of the Society is not based on its web presence. I notice that the article on the Society itself is currently a copyvio. I would suggest restarting that page as a stub and merging the medal with the society article. up+l+and 15:02, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Medal. The society may be notable, the recipients are notable, that does not make the medal notable. Herostratus 06:21, 16 September 2006 (UTC)


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