User talk:LukeCollins12/Carmelo Caruana

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This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... Maestro Carmelo Caruana was a notable and famous person in the world of Music in Malta. He has written various symphonies, has held and conducted many, many musical concerts and he has a monument commemorated in his honour.

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because Maestro Carmelo Caruana was a notable and famous person in the world of Music in Malta. He has written various symphonies, has held and conducted many, many musical concerts and he has a monument commemorated in his honour. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LukeCollins12 (talk • contribs) 11:53, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

In the unlikely event that those statements are true, the only one which asserts importance is the monument. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 12:05, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

In Malta, "Carmelo Caruana" is also the name of a major shipping company, a leading politician and an elderly man (not this Mr. Carauna) who assaulted a neighbor^[1], so this makes determining notability tricky. An English language Google News archive search does turn up these references, however:

• "Band clubs association celebrations". The Malta Independent. 1 October 2006. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
• Castelain (22 December 2002). "Mro John Galea conductor of the King's Own Band". The Times of Malta. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
• Henrickson, Paul (27 December 2005). "Band concerts - a family affair". The Times of Malta. Retrieved 6 September 2012.

None of these is sufficiently strong to create notability, but they lead me to believe this person is probably notable if one looks harder, especially in the Maltese language press.

There is also a created Maltese language biography of the same person created in 2006 and never deleted:

• w:mt:Surmast Carmelo Caruana

The creator of the Maltese article is no longer active on mt.wikipedia but was formerly very active there and presumably somewhat content-savvy even if they didn't include any references. That person, User:Tony Sammut, also occasionally edited en.wikipedia as recently as this year.

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:58, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Malta article is unreferenced, makes you wonder about the vigilance of its editors. WWGB (talk) 13:01, 6 September 2012 (UTC)