Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of organ scholars at British universities and colleges

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The result was merge to Organ scholar. MBisanz ^talk 06:13, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

List of organ scholars at British universities and colleges

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This article fails to establish the notability of individuals which are listed (see also notability requirements for lists of people). Lists of people "should have Wikipedia articles" according to Wikipedia:Lists_(stand-alone_lists)#Lists_of_people, and the article also fails to establish the criteria for inclusion. Coldmachine^Talk 10:08, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

• merge both this and List of Organ Scholars at British Universities and Colleges into the stub article organ scholar, keeping only the vaguely notable people. These lists say they have a didactic purpose- to say how important these positions are- and are not encyclopedic, but would provide some content for the article on the subject itself. Sticky Parkin 15:46, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
• Merge into Organ scholar per above. Lets see if we can get some encyclopedic information out of this laundry list. ThemFromSpace 18:17, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. —TerriersFan (talk) 02:55, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
• Keep. There are a lot of extremely notable people on this list, including some of Britain's top classical musicians (David Wilcocks, Stephen Layton, David Hill, John Scott, Harry Bicket, Nicholas Cleobury, George Guest, etc). Hardly a laundry list, although a list nevertheless. Mathsci (talk) 05:16, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
• Keep - useful for notability, notability generally established. WilyD 13:55, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
• Delete - excessive and pointless categorization by a non-useful set of criteria; fails WP:NOT#DIRECTORY. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:16, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
• Merge the notable names into Organ scholar. This should also be done for List of organ scholars at British cathedrals and parish churches. The position of 'organ scholar' is essentially a training role and not important enough for comprehensive lists. TerriersFan (talk) 20:13, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
• Merge per TerriersFan, or Move: "One of the purposes of this list is to demonstrate the historic importance of the Organ Scholarship scheme to English Church Music." So state that, but a bit briefly. Bearian (talk) 00:38, 27 March 2009 (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.