Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Lorick

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result of the debate was no consensus; keep. Johnleemk | Talk 04:43, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Robert Lorick

310 Google, many of those results are shared with other people. With so no little info to verify an article, delete.

Lotsofissues 21:16, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

• Comment This search and this search get some more specific results. Interestingly, a combination of those two produces just one result that isn't a Wikipedia mirror. This one gives lots of results for the ZBS series in which he plays the main character. I'm not sure the Google test should be the only measure of notability, but that certainly passes, although it isn't that article up for discussion, it's whether the man behind the character is notable in himself. Apparently, The Tap Dance Kid (for which he was the lyricist) ran for 669 performances (Dec 83-Aug 85) at the Broadhurst Theatre (cap. 1150) and the Minskoff Theatre (cap. 1620), New York and won two Tony Awards (in acting categories*) in 1984. This seems to have been his only other credited work. Corporate training sounds bad..- N (talk) 00:16, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
  *_{The Tony Awards won were actually for Choreographer and Featured Actor (Musical). It was nominated for a further four, including Best Musical. - N (talk) 17:05, 15 January 2006 (UTC)}

There is another credit mentioned on the messageboard I posted before that I missed, Hark!, which is described as off-broadway. Someone also found a ticket stub for The Tap Dance Kid which says:

"ROBERT LORICK (lyricist) makes his Broadway debut with The Tap Dance Kid. Cited for Best Lyricist honors in the Variety Critic's Poll for the Off-Broadway musical Hark!, Mr. Lorick is known to radio listeners as Jack Flanders, adventurer. "

A couple of the songs from The Tap Dance Kid have featured on compilations and songbooks. These two shows on their own might not constitute notability for a lyricist, but the fact that he also plays the title character in a radio series that gets 24,900 hits makes me think the article is probably interesting for enough people to be worth keeping. I'm going to have to go with Keep, partly because of the apparent number of Jack Flanders/ZBS enthusiasts, but also because this is one of the only articles on the web that identifies Lorick as both the radio character and the lyricist. - N (talk) 17:05, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Stifle 16:39, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

• Weak keep Barely notable, but as above the article has information that you can't find anywhere else. Ashibaka tock 19:59, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

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