Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter Davies (inventor)


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The result was   delete. Spartaz Humbug! 11:44, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Peter Davies (inventor)

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Prod removed by creator. No reliable sources found to establish notability of an individual. tedder (talk) 02:28, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - I've been searching for coverage, which is difficult because of the common name, but I've found this but not much else. Cordless Larry (talk) 10:11, 23 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete, not notable. --208.59.93.238 (talk) 13:16, 23 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep It has been suggested that no "evidence of notability" exists for this inventor. I'll hunt for more citations or otherwise, but Mr Davies is mentioned here: http://www.theshapeofmusic.com/index.html and http://www.c-thru-music.com/cgi/?page=info_faq Is not creation of a unique invention and fostering it into a real product that many top-level musicians find useful (http://www.theshapeofmusic.com/testimonials.html) notable? I believe it is. MusicScienceGuy (talk) 05:26, 17 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Several users of the Sonome have been contacted, and will likely add their comments KR MusicScienceGuy (talk) 02:00, 24 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete The coverage needs to be independent of the subject. The Shape of Music is his company and C Thru Music was given rights to produce his invention, so neither is independent. Since his notability would be tied to the sonome keyboard, I tried searching for that and only found a few mentions aside from those two companies and ourselves. Is there any source that shows this device to be significant in terms of widespread use or performance use by well known musicians? Celestra (talk) 02:59, 24 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment This is a new instrument that is just getting off the ground. I've contacted a few other musicians that I correspond with re: the sonome and their uses of the instrument were added (citations 5-9). The C-Thru company has a fair list of favorable reviews of the sonome (branded as the Axis-64 and Chameleon) as listed here: http://www.c-thru-music.com/cgi/?page=talk, including Brian May from Queen and Jordan Rudess of Dreamtheater (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WlS2dfZ3L0 )- should I contact them? Also, is it fair to say that someone is not notable because he is quiet, calls his invention generically a sonome and someone else is doing the marketing and calling it the Axis-64? MusicScienceGuy (talk) 05:25, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
 * You've already !voted once, so I'm changing this from "keep" to "comment". tedder (talk) 05:45, 25 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep The inventor is very notable, and the instruments of his invention have been covered in the media. Here at Synthtopia is a video of very famous musician Jordan Rudess playing the Axis-64 which licenses his keyboard layout - http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2008/11/25/jordan-rudess-dreamtheater-demos-the-c-thru-axis-64-pro-midi-controller/. At DeviantSynth, here is a review - http://www.deviantsynth.com/2008/05/11/axis-64-review/. At Harmony Central here are reviews - http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Midi+Keyboard+Controllers/product/C-Thru+Music/Axis64/10/1 http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Midi+Keyboard+Controllers/product/C-Thru+Music/AXiS-49/10/1. There is also scores of discussion at various blogs, these are just mentions of his instruments at few of the more notable sites. Xj (talk) 08:19, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete because the coverage is about instruments invented by Peter Davies, not Peter Davies himself. He is only mentioned tangentially in the sources (if at all), which I don't regard as enough to establish notability. Cordless Larry (talk) 11:43, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per the lack of sufficient coverage in reliable sources. The sources provided by Xj are mainly unreliable sources that mention Peter Davies in passing. This does not establish notability. My searches for sources on Google News Archive return no results. This article should be deleted for failing Biographies of living persons, Notability (people), and Verifiability. Cunard (talk) 03:37, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Inventors are notable  because of what they invent. If, as seems to be accepted, he made several notable inventions of significant instruments, he is notable   It is not someone's personal life that makes them notable, but what they do.    DGG ( talk ) 05:37, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I can find no evidence that the subject's inventions are notable. For instance, Davies invented the "Note Tracker"; a search for sources returns only eight results, four of which from Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons. Cunard (talk) 05:42, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
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