Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jiri Turek

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete, as mandated by the nonnegotionable WP:V and WP:NOR in cases where no reliable sources appear to exist for an article's content. The text is available upon request if anyone wants to recreate the article with proper sourcing. Sandstein 17:20, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jiri Turek

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Publicity puff with mostly unverifiable content. Turek does appear to be a photographer of note -- and this is not a proposal to delete any later article on the same person -- but I hardly know where to start rewriting this article in an encyclopedic manner and therefore suggest clearing it and allowing a completely fresh start. Hoary 06:45, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

The article is poor and the editor has made wild claims about Turek here and in other articles that just aren't true (for example, he started an article on Lith-printing and claimed that Turek was "One of its original users" even though the process pre-dates his birth by 50 years or more. Similarly, many of the claims in this article are not independently verifiable. That said, however, I do find Turek to merit an article, just not this one. TheMindsEye 07:18, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete - Non notable--SUIT 07:34, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per above. There's a conflict of interest in there as well. MER-C 13:57, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. I agree with your criticism of the article as it stands. I also agree that the guy is probably sufficiently notable to merit an article. Therefore, I think the solution is to clear out the fluff and radically stub the article rather than delete it - leave the base for other people to build on.--Kubigula (talk) 14:27, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Keep, if non-trivial sources can be added and the article wikified it could make a good addition Alf photoman 17:37, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, ad. His biography (in English) could be found on his website (no direct link, Javascript is needed) and even this bio does not suggest any notability in Czech or worldwide context. He is a newspaper photographer later working in advertisement industry. There are dozens and dozens such a people in Czech Republic, some more sucessful, some less. He definitely does not belong among the handful of well known, encyclopedicall notable photographers like Josef Sudek or Jan Saudek. Pavel Vozenilek 23:01, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
  • What regards the two awards from the Czech Republic: there are many of them, appearing and disappearing frequently and with low to no impact to the general public (as opposite to specialists). There are also more notable newspaper photographers (Karel Cudlín, Petra Procházková, ...). Pavel Vozenilek 23:11, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Saudek: ugh (not that I'm begrudging him an article). Sudek: wonderful! Cudlin: very good too; somewhere, I have a book of his work. -- Hoary 14:20, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Cleaned up but: More sources needed to establish notability. All we have is one art show at the Leica Gallery and a personal web page with poorly written claims. Obviously a real photographer but notable??--Nick Y. 23:09, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete Puff piece about non-notable subject --BozMo talk 12:12, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Seems sourcable, needs improvement not deletion.DGG 02:43, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

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 talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.