Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Edwards (composer)

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The result was Keep. Procedural keep as a bad faith nomination by a sock puppet. Non admin closure. Szzuk (talk) 12:47, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Paul Edwards (composer)

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~~Does not meet notability criteria. Bristolbottom (talk) 13:40, 2 November 2014 (UTC)~~[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Jinkinson talk to me 14:46, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Jinkinson talk to me 14:46, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

keep I don't believe this to be a GF nomination and I believe the nominating editor to have been socking as Geoffreyofmonmouth.

This is one of a long list of AfD nominations of alumni of Bedford Modern School, mostly on the grounds of "just not notable". This recently knitted account has done nothing else. These nominations have no merit - many laughably so. It is not a positive contribution to the encyclopedia to simply trawl through a category and mindlessly tag each and every article for deletion in the hope that some of them stick. Andy Dingley (talk) 19:15, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

* Delete There's absolutely nothing that makes this person notable. Looks like just another exercise in self-promotion. Snowgoose07 (talk) 19:49, 2 November 2014 (UTC) — Snowgoose07 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

In your brief history here at WP, you've taken rather an unusual interest in Bristolbottom's AfDs. You share a similarly unconvincing line in "But he's just not notable" rhetoric. Andy Dingley (talk) 20:19, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

keepNotability in his field is established by his inclusion in the ‘Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland’ and the 'International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory. I have added these references to the article and deleted the reference to ‘photographing busses and coaches’ which I suspect is an act of vandalism and, in any case, doesn’t contribute to it. Edwards has made a huge contribution to England’s fine tradition and excellence in choral music. This deletion seems like Wikipedia:I just don't like it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Altoforchurchmusic (talk • contribs) 08:39, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've restored the buses - they're in the original creation of this article by Hikitsurisan. People do have hobbies outside music. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:03, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Note that Bristolbottom, Geoffreyofmonmouth and Snowgoose07 have all been blocked for sockpuppeting. Andy Dingley (talk) 11:32, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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.