Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ian Venables

Ian Venables

Non-notable composer. I am convinced this man created the page himself. Only one person has edited it, and when I nominated it for speedy deletion, an IP address (him again?) removed it, making some changes to take away what was mostly just profuse praise of the subject. Still, he is not notable and as he created the page himself, it qualifies as vanity. Clavecin 20:04, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following related pages because 1. is a non-notable recital series based in a school; 2. is a school-child organist who is non-notable; 3. is an amateur organist who is non-notable. All three pages seem to have been created, and edited only (or overwhelmingly) by the same person who created 'Ian Venables', and the praise and mention of that man's compositions is profuse throughout them.:

Comment: A survey of the links on a directed UK Google search (to eliminate an eponymous soldier and Wiki mirrors) [1] show only 87 unique ones, which is pretty poor. As against that, he does seem to have some small reputation. Unfortunately, none of the links represent reliable, independent, published sources. Perhaps a backer of this article could find one, but the best I get are trivial mentions along the lines of Venables conducting concert X or musical group performing one of his works. RGTraynor 20:17, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Most references to Ian Venables have now been removed from the articles. This should prevent them as being vainly. I have left a message on Clavecin talk page, regarding reasons why John Wilderspin's page should not be removed.

Overall, I believe that you are right in earmarking the RGSW Organ Recitals page. As it is not that important, it could possibly be merged with the RGSW page. Would that be possible/ viable? After all, as the article says, it is an important event in the school's calendar 81.158.2.82 20:54, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]