Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elliott Miles McKinley


 * 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. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 00:57, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Elliott Miles McKinley

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Non-notable composer whose music has been heard worldwide only because it was posted on mp3.com under old management. Incarnatus (talk) 20:51, 1 July 2011 (UTC)


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 * Delete WP:COMPOSER is very vague and seems to allow for any reasonably notable composer to be considered. This composer does not meet any of the criteria.  He also does not meet any criteria for the category directly below. Ryan Vesey (talk) 21:03, 1 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Unsure but I alerted the wikiproject involved at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Composers. Bearian (talk) 19:32, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment He appears to be the son of William Thomas McKinley . Inclined to delete at the moment but willing to change my mind. The scores appear to be self-published on lulu.com (stores.lulu.com/emckinley). What recordings there are are on a label started 2 years ago, (unless there's another MMC). There are few hits in Google News, but nothing really in depth. Oviously talented, but notable in the "Wikipedia sense"?  Probably not. CV is here. Voceditenore (talk) 21:06, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep The reference just added to this article about the recording of his string quartets on the MMC label and independent review in a respected venue (Allmusic--see Wikipedia link) establishes notability in the field of contemporary music composition. Scot Johnston (talk) 12:24, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:40, 8 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete We're not talking about Leopold Mozart and Wolfgang Amadeus here.  It's more like J. S. Bach and that son of his who also wrote music but it only gets played in order to compare him to other members of the family.  James470 (talk) 06:36, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
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