Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neck Face

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 keep. - Mailer Diablo 02:52, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Neck Face

I don't think notability is there. Graffiti artist? Delete. --Nlu (talk) 05:00, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

• Keep When I saw this was a graffiti artist, I was expecting not to see any sources but just a bunch of unverified claims in the article. Instead, there are oodles of articles in major media publications. I'd say this clearly meets the "multiple non-trivial published works" bullet of WP:BIO.--Kchase T 05:11, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, although I can understand the reason for submitting this. While not every idiot with a spraycan is an artist, it is possible to achieve artistic notability through graffitti (op cit. Keith Haring), and Neck Face is very much in that vein. He's been profiled in mass-circulation mainstream publications like the New Yorker and the San Francisco Guardian, and is attracting a lot of attention. Not at all my cup of tea, but I'd have to say he's notable nonetheless. --Pagana 05:16, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Huh. I've seen his work in Manhattan, it's quite good, and if he's got some media attention and notoriety for it, then we should have an article. -/- Warren 05:39, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Graffiti artists can be notable, too. When I saw this article, I checked to see if we had one on Borf, too, and lo and behold! I love this place. -- Vary | Talk 06:50, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep He's just like TAKI 183 or Borf or any other graffiti artist. That's the whole point of graffiti. To gain notoriety through it. MrBlondNYC 08:12, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep: Neck Face is a notable contemporary graf artist who deserves a place in Wikipedia. --Howrealisreal 22:51, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Neckface is a highly notable graf artist in New York City, I believe he now has a gallery in LA. He is actually mentioned I believe in the Graffitti article itself. --zero faults ^{|sockpuppets|} 15:13, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep Prolific graffiti artists receive enough media and critical attention to become notable. Google search for "neckface" or "neck face" gets 158,000 results, including mentions on BBC.co.uk and the New Yorker. Ytny 08:33, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per KChase and Ytny the subject meets WP:BIO guidelines. Yamaguchi先生 21:49, 8 August 2006 (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.