Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fred Bronson

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The result was keep‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:55, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Fred Bronson

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There are no sources.. there are dead links.. one of which is archived but it leads to some archive of a personal page that has nothing of substance. This person is not mentioned anywhere. The template for needing more sourced was added 16 years ago.. I think there has been plenty of time to fix the article. There is no fixing it. Nominating for deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fireandflames2 (talk • contribs) 01:11, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Seems to be a rather prolific journalist/writer, you get many, many hits on columns in Billboard, Variety and a few books he's written, which are quoted by other stories, such as this [1] in American Songwriter. More than likely as notable for being a senior writer at Billboard. Oaktree b (talk) 14:02, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

He's also said to be a notable chart journalist in an NPR article. [2] and his "Billboard Book of Number One Charts" seems to have gone through five editions since the 1980s [3], implying it's widely used as a reference work. Oaktree b (talk) 14:03, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Journalism, Music, and California. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 17:39, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 01:47, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per
WP:JOURNALIST.1 —siro χ o 02:59, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply
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Keep per Oaktree b and
WP:JOURNALIST points 1 (widely cited as noted above), 2 (noted for his apparently unique system for ranking songs by chart performance) and 3 (his book attracted mountains of reviews in its day and still occasionally nets a new one; and although not at all a scholarly book it somehow has 267 citations on Google Scholar). I'm seeing 493 hits for "fred bronson" + billboard on newspapers.com alone, which vary between in-depth reviews of his book, quotes from or discussions of his Billboard column, and stories about his short-lived radio show. Overall this fellow does not seem to have suffered from a shortage of influentiality. -- Visviva (talk) 03:13, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply
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Keep - Could use more sourcing, but Fred Bronson is pretty well known as a writer (Hollywood Reporter author Fred Bronson), multiple years of Billboard Number One Hits [(https://www.amazon.com/s?k=fred+bronson+the+billboard+book+of+number+one+hits&i=digital-text&crid=3KN96IYYWS6PF&sprefix=Fred+Bronson%2Cdigital-text%2C119&ref=nb_sb_ss_fb_3_12 Amazon search (], Star Trek actor ([4]) etc. etc. — Maile (talk) 00:51, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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