Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anne McGinty

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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 was Delete. Nakon 05:01, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Anne McGinty

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Three months of a notability tag yielded no activity on this page. Only after a PROD tag had been added was there any attempt to remedy its WP:MUSIC deficiencies, and the added sources are unsatisfactory for determining notability. Source 1 grants Miss McGinty a single sentence detailing information that doesn't satisfy any of the WP:MUSIC criteria. Her entry under Source 2 is modest, and is possibly appropriate for Criteria 6 for Composers and Lyricists. However, she does not appear in other music encyclopedias like New Grove, The Harvard Dictionary or Garland, which offer articles to other major band composers such as Vincent Persichetti and John Barnes Chance. She also does not appear in what would seem to be the only other major band-specifc encyclopedia, Band Encyclopedia by Band Associates. Accordingly, I consider this one entry insufficient for Criteria 6 for Composers and Lyricists.

Given the article's current failure to meet WP:MUSIC and the lack of regular attention heretofore, I propose that this article be deleted. SingCal (talk) 00:21, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete WP:MUSIC isn't quite as clear on this as it is on, say, garage bands, but I don't think this article passes, especially as written. Google News results return mostly other unrelated people of the same name, plus a handful of notices that a school band would perform something she wrote as part of a program. Doesn't seem to be any reliable sources where she herself is the primary subject, at least not that I can find. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 17:50, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. This composer is mentioned in at least a couple of books. That satisfies notability to my view anyway.
    • Comment But as I said, the length at which she's actually discussed in the books is questionable. Yes, she appears in two books; but she doesn't appear in any major music encyclopedias, and one of her appearances is only a sentence long. Which criteria of WP:Music would you argue her presence in these books satisfies? SingCal (talk) 01:02, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.