The result was keep. MBisanz talk 14:08, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
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Non-notable musician. Only got attention for his work on the album The Vertical Collection with Jon Hassell. There are no RS in the article: only the two interviews give any biographical informations, and they almost all come from his own month. One of the interviews is done alongside Hassell. The other interview is in a non-notable publication and notes that his work with Hassell as his main contribution to the musical world. The interviewer also says she spoke to Freeman before, for an article on Hassel's work. That article doesn't mention Freeman at all.
Freeman died six month ago, but I didn't find this being reported in any RS. You can only see his death being reported on content farm websites. Mottezen (talk) 06:44, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
Delete I agree with the nomination this guy really has not made any significant contribution to music. He does not have any awards or anything. Does not pass WP:GNG --Rrmmll22 (talk) 02:26, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Keep and improve I disagree with both the proposer and the first response above. The history of early electronic music and the people who contributed to it is not very well documented, but the scope of Freeman's contributions shown in the filmography is both impressive and interesting. It is easy for some Wikipedians to say "non-notable" and simply scrapping this on the basis of "I couldn't find any sources so there must be none" for a new article is one of the banes of the Wikipedia. This isn't a vanity article; the subject is dead. The proposer asserts that a publication is "non-notable" but that again is just an assertion. Yes, the article needs more citations. The right thing to do is to flag the article for improvement, not for summery deletion. -- Evertype·✆ 19:15, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
Keep and improve per Evertype above. To declare my COI, Peter and I were in a relationship during the last months of his life, and we were friends for longer. I am still absolutely distraught, six months after his death. As a musician and innovator, he kept very much to himself but he had influence far beyond that which appears in public sources. He was a software innovator and was a key contributor to Looperverse, and to software developed by AVID. His influence on Jon's music was significant, and you can hear it in Maarifa Street, to give one example. Not just as a musician but also a co-producer, for which he was credited. His memorial service was a who's-who of musical innovators and people he worked with for years. Elliott Sharp said yesterday that Peter "made electrons sing". There is unreleased music of his that will see the light of day. And so on. I know the rules on WP - I've been here nearly 18 years myself - and know that the measure of a person is more than the sum of the WP:RS you can find via Google. Anyways, I've said too much - Alison ❤ 00:37, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
Keep and improve as per Evertype, it seems a disservice to a niche topic area and someone who from their discography and collaborations was high profile/prolific in their music genre to just slap a deletion tag on it. His name makes searching efficiently online slightly challenging without doing more serious amounts of due diligence. Smirkybec (talk) 10:02, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
Keep and improve as per Evertype and Smirkybec, et al. Niche musicians may not get the kind of traditional coverage that mainstream musicians get but that doesn't diminish their contributions and so we need to broaden our definition of what is a reliable source to accommodate this - in 2021, blogs by notable commentators have to be looked at differently than how we looked at blogs ten years ago. Yes, let's try to improve this piece with more and "better" sources, but deleting it is utterly uncalled for. Tvoz/talk 21:07, 20 October 2021 (UTC)