Larry Appelbaum

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Article about a recently deceased music engineer, not properly sourced as passing WP:NMUSIC. As written, this literally just states that he existed and then died, without documenting even one thing about his career that could be measured against NMUSIC criteria at all, and for referencing it cites one primary source (the self-published website of an organization he was directly affiliated with) that isn't support for notability and one newspaper article that's a valid start toward WP:GNG but not enough all by itself. And while there's a "this article can be expanded from German" notice on it, the German article (which was also created within the past week based on his death) has more text but is still based entirely on primary and unreliable sourcing (a paid-inclusion legacy.com obituary, a directory of his contributions to a magazine where he was the author of content about other things rather than the subject of content written by other people, etc.) rather than WP:GNG-building reliable sources. So even if we did translate the other article, we'd still need to see much better sourcing anyway.
As this is a specialized subject I don't have a lot of knowledge about, I'm willing to withdraw this if somebody with more expertise can salvage the article with more substance about his career and better sourcing for it, but one obituary isn't enough to make him "inherently" notable just for existing. Bearcat (talk) 18:03, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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