Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David J. Sosnowski


 * 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   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 05:22, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

David J. Sosnowski

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No assertion of notability, almost completely unsourced (there's one link to his web site). WP:BEFORE doesn't bring up anything useful -- only 81 Ghits (page 9 is the last one), nothing in GNews or GScholar. SarekOfVulcan (talk) 04:51, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete I've failed to find any mention of him or his work in reliable independent sources, let alone in-depth or significant coverage. CDs and scores are self-published, and observe the upper left hand side of his website. Below his one-sentence 'biography' we find: "See the Wikipedia article here for more on David Sosnowski." Comprehensively fails the criteria at WP:COMPOSER and WP:BIO and blatant self-promotion. Voceditenore (talk) 06:46, 13 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been notified to WikiProject Classical music and WikiProject Composers. – Voceditenore (talk) 06:55, 13 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete per Voceditenore. Couldn't have said it better.4meter4 (talk) 09:05, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Yup, this is an attempt to use Wikipedia for self-promotion. Roscelese (talk &sdot; contribs) 16:21, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete The only thing I wonder is how this article stayed up for six years. Sosnowski has gained far more than his rightful share of publicity through it, and should be very grateful that it took this long for him to be "caught". Chillowack (talk) 17:38, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Blatant self-promotion. Perhaps it has escaped attention so far because of confusion with the novelist David Sosnowski, though frankly the subject of that article doesn't look overly noteworthy, either.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 17:49, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * His WP article is refreshingly terse but the novelist would probably pass as AfD See . Voceditenore (talk) 17:59, 13 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Wait Efforts to improve the article are recently in progress. Perhaps it would be indicated to wait and see what develops.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.19.183.38 (talk) 19:46, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The discussion will run until the 20th -- you have that long to demonstrate that the article fits into the policies and guidelines here. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:57, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Unsourced (except for link to his website) vanity publication.--Hokeman (talk) 21:26, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment In email contact with the subject of the article seeking further detail, he declined to provide assistance, commenting: "While the gesture is kindly appreciated, I cannot think of any surpassing reason I would belong in an encyclopedia." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.19.183.38 (talk) 22:25, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * If Sosnowski himself doesn't feel he deserves a Wikipedia page, then whoever is frantically adding Notes and References at the end of the article might wish to reconsider the effort. Chillowack (talk) 23:50, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 *  Chillowack (talk) 01:42, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 02:35, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
 * 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.