Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roger Dopson


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The result was   delete. Per WP:BIODEL  Wifione  Message 20:20, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Roger Dopson

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This biography of a music writer fails WP:AUTHOR in that he is not so widely cited. He has been mentioned in passing, and thanked many times for his assistance, for instance he has been thanked for his help on a Frank Zappa biography ("I received significant help from a number of people who still remain friends and deserve thanks... Roger Dopson, for climbing into his attic and manhandling boxes of yellowing music papers down to ground level..."), and he has been described as the co-director of RPM Records, a small label that in 1994 was putting out compilations of cover tunes. So Dopson appears at the periphery of the music business but is not notable enough for a biography. I looked for but did not find any in-depth coverage in third party media. Binksternet (talk) 23:44, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete. I found no significant coverage of the subject, and I'm not comfortable with keeping an article on someone simply because they wrote a lot of album sleevenotes. --Michig (talk) 06:43, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
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