Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jim Greeninger


 * 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 non-notable, autobiog, no valid sources. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 09:48, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Jim Greeninger

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This is an apparently autobiographical article on a non-notable guitar teacher, produced by the editor, who seems to be Jim Greeninger himself, the subject of the article.

The article is unsourced, other than non-specific references to Greeninger's personal web site and to Greeninger's web site for the "American School of Music", the school Greeninger runs.

I can find no basis for notability. The closest ones are Greeninger's claim that he was offered a post at Julliard (which he claims he turned down), which cannot be verified; and the claim that he "is presently listed as one of the top five living acoustic guitarist in the world at WorldGuitarRankings.com", a site that appears not to actually exist.

I proposed it for deletion in February, but Jimsgreeninger removed the prod with the edit summary "The information is valid and true. We will discuss it on the Talk page". No discussion was ever started. TJRC (talk) 22:02, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Lacks significant coverage by independent reliable sources. No reliably sourced evidence of passing any of the criteria at WP:MUSICBIO. I didn't find much when I did a basic clean up of the article. A new search brings up passing mentions, concert announcements and press releases. Claims of notability are not supported. • Gene93k (talk) 02:45, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as nothing at all for the applicable notability. SwisterTwister   talk  19:28, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete No references to verify notability. Sole reference is the subjects own website. ShelbyMarion (talk) 12:54, 11 April 2016 (UTC)


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