Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laurenţiu Rotaru


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The result was  Delete. Eluchil404 (talk) 17:59, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Laurenţiu Rotaru

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This article does not meet the notability requirements for a wikipedia article. It is also based entirely from the individual's own website and may be an attempt at self promotion. Nrswanson (talk) 19:25, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. An article by the same name was deleted from the Romanian wikipedia, probably as a copyvio. 26 noiembrie 2007 11:47 Radufan (discuţie | contribuţii) a şters Laurenţiu Rotaru ‎ (conţinutul era: „ ==Legături externe== *Situl personal al lui Laurenţiu Rotaru en:Laurenţiu Rotaru”) --Eastmain (talk) 20:00, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.   —Eastmain (talk) 20:00, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions.   —Eastmain (talk) 20:33, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. I added some references. Note that he reportedly toured internationally (but as part of a group of singers, rather than as a solo artist), and that he has performed at Carnegie Hall. These claims are not referenced, but sound plausible. I was able to confirm that he performed with various groups and that he was a winner of the Connecticut Opera Guild's 50th Annual Young Artist Scholarship Competition. --Eastmain (talk) 20:33, 23 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Most of the information in this article is taken from the artists own website. I can not find any reviews of any perfromances this artist has done and i have done a fairly exhaustive internet search. The repetoire list given seems to be mostly roles learned as opposed to roles actually performed on the stage professionally. His work with the Connecticut opera also appears to be through a Young Artist program which really would not make him notable yet. Also the NATS competition he won was for the Connecticut chapter and not on the national level. That's not really a major competition win then. Also he must have been part of an ensemble for the Carnegie hall performance or otherwise the New York Times or Village Voice etc. would have reviewed him which they haven't in doing a database search. Also, the ensembles he was touring with are not highly notable groups. One was a seminary choir. That is not exactly notable work. This artist has not sung anything but minor roles in professional productions and the productions through the Young Artist program at Connecticut Opera. He is an opera singer in training basically. Not really the stuff of a wikipedia article.Nrswanson (talk) 21:23, 23 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete. Not notable and the page is a copy and paste job anyway. -- Kleinzach (talk) 00:20, 24 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Zero non-trivial independent coverage combined with a lack of leading roles with notable companies and a failure to win any prizes in significant competitions at national level. Having fulfilled one of these criteria might have made up for lack of the others, but this is not the case here. His performances so far have all been via student productions or young artists' programmes (and not even in major roles) and as a member of a seminary or university choir. The competitions he 'won', weren't exactly 'won'. In the case of the NATS, he came in second in a preliminary round for the regionals and progressed no further. The Connecticut Guild Opera Competition is set up to award scholarship money to local singing students, and again he came in second. In the other two competitions mentioned (also minor), he was only a finalist, i.e., not a winner. As for Carnegie Hall, even if he were the featured soloist, which he apparently wasn't, anyone can rent the Hall for the evening. It looks like that particular evening was a fundraiser for the Connecticut Lyric Opera (a very minor company, using mainly students for their productions). He might become notable one day, but he definitely isn't notable now. Voceditenore (talk) 08:32, 24 March 2008 (UTC)


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