Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dean Shostak


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The result was   keep. L Faraone  18:16, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Dean Shostak

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Non-notable musician. Does not meet any of the notability requirements of notability for musicians. Only reliable source cited is a passing mention in a CBS News report, nothing else. Suspected promotional article. (Contested speedy, then PROD contested by original author.) - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 07:38, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Dean Shostak is "notable" in that he is recognized in certain arenas as a pre-eminent musician. He is well known in Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg and the general Hampton Roads area of Virginia.  He is one of only 12 musicians in the world who plays the crystal armonica.  He travels the world giving concerts on crystal instruments including the armonica, crystal handbells and a crystal violin.  There is a recent newspaper article available on him at:  http://hamptonroads.com/node/198181
 * I'm afraid that this apparently-local level of notability simply is not enough to meet Wikipedia standards. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 03:53, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

18:16, 3 December 2010 (UTC)Bigamt
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 03:31, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

OK - does appearing on NPR's "All Things Considered", CBS' "The Early Show", CNN, and the fact that he is listed in another entry in Wikipedia make a difference?

Oh - he was also on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.253.6.7 (talk) 14:15, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_harmonica

~Bigamt

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:41, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - This musician meets the general notability guidelines with significant coverage in indpendent reliable sources. The HamptonRoads peice cited in the article is a signficant profile where Shostak is the primary subject.  A Google News search has a lot of results spanning multiple years.  Most are behind pay walls, and many are concert annoucnements, but the abstracts chow fairly clearly that some of it is coverage about Shostak rather than concert listings.  Beyond that we also have Sunday Free Lance-Star, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and Gainesville Sun - the latter two are not local to Williamsburg so coverage extends outside of the immediate locality. -- Whpq (talk) 17:18, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Keep. More than 100 hits at GNews, many of them pointing out the subject's unusual status as one of the few performers in the world of his archaic instrument.--Arxiloxos (talk) 06:36, 10 December 2010 (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.