Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Herbert Breslin

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 keep. (the merge comment didn't state where) -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 03:59, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Herbert Breslin

Article about Luciano Pavarotti's former manager. POV (can be fixed if kept). Google brings up a low 729 hits for "Herbert Breslin". There isn't much in this article can't be easily included in Luciano Pavarotti or Plácido Domingo (very little mention of the latter). Do we really want articles for every musician's manager? -Nameneko 03:45, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep - certainly needs wikifying but the information is all verifiable, as is the subject of the article. Looking at the guidleines at Wikipedia:Criteria for inclusion of biographies he would get over the bar as being an author (admittedly with apparently an acknowledged ghost writer)of a book about himself that almost certainly would have a circulation of more than 5,000 as it was written about in the popular press. Given the book I don't think appropriate to merge with the Pavorotti article. We don't want articles on every manager but this manager and the artists he managed could be said to be more notable than most.--User:AYArktos | Talk 00:58, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
  • The Pav ain't the Einstein or Newton of opera, but he's, say, a Robert Oppenheimer. Far, far from a typical musician.
    --Jerzy•t 17:35, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
    
• Merge (keeping redir), taking the advice of an opera expert who says

As to the Breslin article looking like it was written by him or a friend, it's entirely possible. He was (or is) a shameless self-promoter. IMO, he doesn't deserve an entry except as part of an article about Pavarotti.

--Jerzy•t 19:06, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep I added the cleanup, yes it is POV I'll remove the garbage and extract the facts from the fluff shortly. Arniep 18:29, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

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