Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martin Kennedy (composer)

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The result was keep‎. Doczilla _{Ohhhhhh, no!} 04:05, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Martin Kennedy (composer)

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I'm not at all thrilled by the sourcing on this. Sources exist, yes, but they're not really very independent: they seem to be from either his employers (past and present) or his publisher. On the other hand, there's that handful of awards... but not all awards are created equal. How significant are they? Does it matter that the only source for them is (or seems to be) his publisher?

(Also: Mr Kennedy, or someone claiming to be him, came on the live help channel and asked for the article to be deleted on the grounds that he doesn't think he's notable. I looked, and I'm honestly not sure; thus, I throw it open for more opinions.) DS (talk) 23:14, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bands and musicians, England, Alabama, Indiana, New York, and Pennsylvania. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 05:27, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It appears that this Martin Kennedy and the other musician with the same name who originates in Australia are not the same person. StonyBrook _babble 19:54, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Per WP:Author. 1. Cited by peers, for example.1; 4. significant body of work with performances in large venues. Jaireeodell (talk) 22:44, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
1: That... doesn't look like a citation by a peer. It looks like a mention of his name. 2: Okay. Cite? DS (talk) 01:34, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:COMPOSER and WP:NMUSICOTHER. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 04:12, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep per WP:ANYBIO, where point no. 1 states it's enough that The person has received a well-known and significant award or honor, or has been nominated for such an award several times. The current version contains a secondary reliable source [1] for the claim that the subject won the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award, an award which has been in place since 1979, a total of five times, along with numerous other awards. The other sources present in the article verify this and other information, even though they may not be as robust due to being primary, connected in some way, or trivial. In Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marvin Goldstein, an article with local coverage about a pianist was kept even though that subject doesn't hold a doctorate, isn't on any university's faculty, hasn't seemed to have won any significant awards, nor is any discography listed. Per the failed proposal at WP:BLPCD, acknowledging the request to have this article courtesy deleted is not the same thing as agreeing to have it done. StonyBrook _babble 13:51, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - his awards and nominations seem to qualify him under the standards cited above. Llajwa (talk) 17:07, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per above discussion. In addition, the ASCAP award is a significant award. Bearian (talk) 14:47, 31 January 2024 (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.