Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eric Caldwell
Being "unusual" is not part of policy or guidelines for notability.   See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notability_in_Wikipedia#Controversy a useful link  It should also be noted that whereas most online references to Mr. Caldwell and his work are in retail advertisements, they are all secondary sources and not self-published.  Furthermore, however interesting or not these advertisements may be, they are not referenced in the article and therefore, not a verifiability concern.  As a matter of personal disclosure, I have contributed to the article.  I have personal knowledge of Mr. Caldwell and his work.  I find it an utterly perposterous and libelous argumentum ad hominem that, "he is only beginning on an independent career."  In fact, Mr. Caldwell has personally built more than 80 instruments and prior to working at the Potter Violin Co., owned and opperated The Cleveland Violin Shop in Cleveland Heights, OH.  Regarding RichardOSmith's concern,  The article in question does not contain "quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged" and therefore needs not "be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation." Also, this article is about an American, not a subject of the crown.  So please, stop embedding links for UK search engines.  On to AJHingston's allegation that a VSA certificate of merrit is an "also-ran," the 19th International VSA Competition and Exhibition had over 300 entries.  9 violins were awarded a Certificate of Merrit for Tone. http://www.rodneymohr.com/mohr-talk/competition-results/ competition winners To continue the horse racing analogy, it is a "show" in the biggest stakes race of the biennial
— User:flyingtent, NONE
Stance: keep
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