Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Benjamin Boretz

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The result of the debate was keep. Mackensen (talk) 20:55, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Benjamin Boretz

This author receives 1080 hits on google. [1] Are all published 21st century authors inherently noteworthy? What bar must authors meet to become included on Wikipedia? GRider\^talk 23:09, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Founder of a scholarly journal and music critic for The Nation seems pretty notable. -- Jmabel | Talk 08:02, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, if you filter through the results removing wikipedia and duplicate pages it actually drops down to 830. Just under the bar of notability for me. Megan1967 09:04, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. By founding a scholarly music journal, seems to me boretz established a stable venue for informed and intelligent musical discussions. In other disciplines, such venues contribute to advancements in the field, don't they? I checked out Perspectives of New Music, and since its founding in the early 60's every big name in 20th century 'classical' music has published there: Stockhausen, Babbitt, Xenakis, Ferneyhough, the list goes on. If the founder of the scientific journal Nature was also a noteworthy biologist, or accomplished physicist, would'nt they be notable enough for inclusion here? Everything I've encountered (such as the entry on him in Groves Encyclopedia, the standard source in music scholarship) suggests Boretz is an accomplished and respected composer and music theorist. In what ways do Google hits affirm/deny notability? --User:Nding
• Keep.
• Keep - David Gerard 23:05, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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