Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lauren Brown (2nd nomination)


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The result of the debate was delete. Johnleemk | Talk 15:39, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Lauren Brown
This was previously nominated, and closed as keep, though I think it deserves revisiting. Most of the keep votes last time seem to be centered on him being in the Nebraska Music Hall of Fame. What wasn't made clear to everyone is that the Nebraska Music Hall of Fame is little more than a website; it has no physical presence, and cannot in any way be compared to halls of fame along the lines of the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame or the Baseball Hall of Fame (all of whose inductees would certainly qualify for an article). The real kicker is that I can only find one relevent google when I searched for "lauren Brown" "lawrence welk" -wikipedia (the first two hits are the only ones that seem to be him, and they're both from the same site, the Nebraska Music Hall of Fame). "Lauren brown" trombone got me 234 hits, but I didn't see any other ones that seemed to be him. Perhaps a redirect would work for this guy, but I'm not sure where to. Hundreds of people must have played with Lawrence Welk; maybe they can all be listed in an article somewhere. -R. fiend 19:37, 20 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete - Isn't the Nebraska Music Hall of Fame across the street from the World's Biggest Ball of Twine? Ruby 19:50, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. No content that establishes person's notability. Mukadderat 19:53, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. It's only notable for teaching me that "Lauren" was once a unisex name.  Do we have an article on the ball of twine?  I'd keep that over this.  Postdlf 19:55, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete Part of me thinks that this guy actually has some notability...a couple of decent writeups via google...nebraska hall of fame....lawrence welk...but the rest of me buys the arguments above in this case. Phantasmo 19:59, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Article does not address importance except possibly for Nebraska Music Hall of Fame. Nebraska Music Hall of Fame has no article as of now, so it is likely unimportant. So Lauren Brown, despite being a talented musician, is likely unimportant.
 * Unsigned vote by User:Cdcon
 * Keep (as before). In the "old" days, you couldn't really get much bigger than playing with Lawrence Welk. Our bias for modern pop culture is really showing when we keep all sorts of contemporary musicians but not a "featured soloist on records in California and on national radio broadcasts" with the biggest name band of his day. -- DS1953 talk  06:50, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Couldn't get any bigger than playing with Welk? What about any one of the hundreds of people who must have played some instrument in one of Sinatra's backing bands? Isn't it the same sort of thing? Are we going to have, in the name of countering contemporary bias, an article on the 13th violinist in the Mantovani Orchestra? -R. fiend 06:57, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
 * And where the hell is our article on the Mantovani Orchestra? -R. fiend 06:57, 21 January 2006 (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.