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Article for a gallery that shows a lot of notable artists. The gallery itself is not notable though, as SIGCOV does not exist and
WP:NOTINHERITED.
ThatMontrealIP (
talk) 04:12, 13 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep The article's gallery is mentioned in a number of articles in
Bloomberg News, specifically
[1] and
[2]. It's publications also have reviews in the
New York Times[3], and the gallery was the subject of a
New Art Dealers Alliance interview with the founder about the importance of galleries
[4]. The article in question should definitely be cleaned up to meet the standards of other Wikipedia articles, but I wouldn't go so far as to claim the subject as non-notable.
Userqio (
talk) 01:15, 14 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment You give four sources. The first two total five sentences. The last is an interview, which is not really an independent source. I included the New York times article on
Sascha Braunig in the article on her, because I just created it! But it is about Braunig and not the gallery. (Researching Braunig, who is very notable, was how I found Foxy Productions). So really there is no SIGCOV here to establish notability. Happy to be persuaded otherwise.
ThatMontrealIP (
talk) 01:43, 14 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment I'm not sure how a contemporary art gallery could even establish notability since they're not likely to be the subject of a conventional article, since the only "product" they produce is other people's work and they are not old enough to appear in most history books. If I had an idea of what page to merge to, I would suggest a merge. But since I don't I'm not entirely sure. If we were to treat the gallery like a person, it might pass
WP:ARTIST through the combination of all of the work that it's helped publish. But using that rhetoric almost seems like
WP:ORGSIG, so unless someone else wants to comment on this I'll be striking my !vote out.
Userqio (
talk) 03:09, 14 April 2019 (UTC)reply
This has been discussed numerous times at Afd, and it comes down to the fact that the notability guidelines are not set up for this kind of organization. The be notable you have to have detailed SIGCOV, and very few galleries except for the very large and famous ones have that.
ThatMontrealIP (
talk) 03:14, 14 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete, does not meet our revised
WP:NCORP guideline (and probably didn't meet the old one either). The Australian "Broadsheet" article does have some in-depth coverage, but – surprise, surprise! – is a "dispatch" supplied by "John Thomson of Foxy Production". As discussed in innumerable past deletion nominations, the notability of the product or merchandise (here, works by various artists) is not "inherited" by the trader or merchant. As for the notability of the artists, several of those listed are blue-linked because
User:Artentries created pages for them, without any adequate sourcing, but rigorously complete with "(S)he is represented by Foxy Production in New York". I have prodded
Jimmy Baker (American artist),
Simone Gilges,
Ester Partegàs,
Michael Bell-Smith and
Violet Hopkins as non-notable COI creations, am still looking at
Hany Armanious and
Olga ChernyshevaJustlettersandnumbers (
talk) 11:53, 17 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment@
Justlettersandnumbers: I removed the PROD from all of these articles; None of these are uncontroversial, thus a PROD is incorrect. I also reverted your redirects on
Jessica Ciocci and
Jacob Ciocci. If you want to bring them here to AFD you are welcome to.--
Theredproject (
talk) 14:50, 18 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 06:15, 20 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep. The only reason an article like this would be deleted is due to a problem with notability guidelines for galleries of contemporary art.
Bus stop (
talk) 21:18, 21 April 2019 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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