Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Fox (organist)


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The result was keep. Tone 17:48, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

William Fox (organist)

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Deprodded without explaination by the usual suspect. Recent college graduate with a nice resume but precisely zero of the sources establish notability. is the only source with more than a passing mention of his name, but it's from his employer annoucing the hire and obviously doesn't count. Reywas92Talk 17:45, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep It's easy to find more sources such as this and that. There's also a William Fox who was the organist at Ely Cathedral from 1571 to 1579 and so we need disambiguation not deletion.  The failure of the nominator and prodder to identify this shows that they have not followed WP:BEFORE.  Such cathedrals keep meticulous records over the centuries and so their important musicians become notable.  The worst case for such people would be merger to pages about the cathedrals or a page such as List of musicians at English cathedrals.  Deletion is therefore not appropriate per our policies including WP:ATD; WP:IMPERFECT; WP:PRESERVE; &c. Andrew🐉(talk) 20:10, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Andrew has presented non-trivial sources and I will likely reiterate them here. WP:MUSICBIO#1 is likely met with the reliable sources. The organist meets our notability guidelines WP:V and passes WP:N. The young organist gets non-trivial coverage in Whitby Gazette here, in Richmondshire Today here, he was a Wells Organ Scholar here, so possibly also a WP:ANYBIO See Organ scholar. Fox was a Wells Cathedral Junior Organ Scholar 2012-14, and later at University of Oxford, where he was also an Organ Scholar. here Lightburst (talk) 17:44, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
 * ANYBIO?! That requires a "a well-known and significant award" and this is certainly not well-known! There are tens of thousands of distinguished scholars at universities around the world and that is by no means a maker of Wikipedia notability. You don't get a free article for receiving even the graduate Rhodes Scholarship, which is far better known and significant than this! And which will also get you write-ups in the local news. Reywas92Talk 21:04, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per CREATIVE - played at all the major choral-based cathedrals in England. Bearian (talk) 11:27, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Unequivocally meets WP:MUSICBIO: #1 with the non-trivial coverage in IRS and #5 with the two discs on Naxos Zingarese  talk  ·  contribs  14:41, 14 September 2020 (UTC)


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