Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leland Smith


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The result was keep. Being bold and closing this one early. Missvain (talk) 17:15, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Leland Smith

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Subject of article is a non notable musician and teacher that does not possess in-depth significant coverage in reliable sources hence does not satisfy GNG. A BEFORE conducted via google keeps bringing up a LinkedIn profile of his. Celestina007 (talk) 21:27, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Smith single-handedly developed what is arguably the best music typesetting program SCORE (software), and warranted a three page obituary in a major academic journal.  A Google on 'Leland Smith SCORE' brings up a non-trivial amount of notable mentions, as it does Google Books (per BEFORE).  I consider these to satisfy the notability guidelines. pgbrown (talk)   —Preceding undated comment added 22:37, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. we need to fill in the references, but based on the obit at Stanford, he was a major influence in his field. I would be very reluctant to nominate an article for deletion on someone who had been a full professor at Stanford without a very full search according to BEFORE, not limited to Google.  DGG ( talk ) 04:20, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Between his SCORE (software) (especially) and his book (which I added to the article; I didn't find reviews but it is held by 36 libraries according to WorldCat; notable also as the first completely typeset music book), I'm seeing WP:NCREATIVE shaping up.  That's bolstered by his work as a composer -- I found a brief nytimes review of a performance of a piece of his, for example.  The CMJ obit helps support GNG.  I think that the combination forms a solid keep case. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 13:12, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep has enough reliable sources coverage as shown above to pass WP:GNG imv Atlantic306 (talk) 22:08, 9 January 2020 (UTC)


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