Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brendan Perry

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was speedy keep per WP:SK#1. The nominator fails to advance an argument for deletion, proposing the action of merging. See WP:MERGE for information about merges. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:53, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Brendan Perry

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I'm not entirely sure if he's independent notable and seems essentially best known for Dead Can Dance therefore some of the useful information here can be merged to the group's article and then redirected. My searches also didn't find anything hopeful here, here, here, here and here (from which I tried to improve but only found no good source). Even his Allmusic profile shows mostly Dead Can Dance performances and a few collaborations here and there but essentially Dead Can Dance and no significant coverage about him specifically. SwisterTwister talk 04:56, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. This isn't the correct venue for merge proposals. Aside from that Brendan Perry is notable enough and there is sufficient to be said that a standalone article is justified. In addition to al Allmusic bio and two reviews of his solo albums, he had a top 30 album in Poland, there's an EW review cited in one of the album articles, there's further coverage of Perry's work outside of Dead Can Dance, e.g. CMJ New Music Monthly review, another, NPR. He has also worked as a producer ([1]). The options here seem to be keep or merge - either way this is the wrong venue. --Michig (talk) 17:34, 15 July 2015 (UTC) Plus further coverage from more focussed searches: Glide, Hot Press, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Exclaim!, Czech coverage, Polish radio coverage. --Michig (talk) 17:44, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Michig: I hear you but what would you've suggested? Opening an RfC? I find AfDs attract a little better input and attention. If he's a little closer to independent notability and improving the article, I may withdraw but I'm not there yet. SwisterTwister talk 22:04, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to propose merges I would suggest doing so on the article's talk page, which is what both WP:MERGE and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion state should be done. After following WP:BEFORE of course. --Michig (talk) 22:11, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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