Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wang Yi Guang

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. Needs improvement, but there appear to be a lot of online sources showing notability available. Black Kite 08:03, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wang Yi Guang

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Reads like advertising, and notability appears to be questionable. Delete. --Nlu (talk) 04:46, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

• Keep - Notability established by sources in article and numerous mentions of his work being exhibited by museums, see here and here for quick examples. Also, because it "Reads like advertising" is not a good reason for deletion unless it would be impossible to salvage the article. While the article needs improvement, this is not the case here. KnightLago (talk) 16:30, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
• Delete. Does not pass WP:BIO. No work in museum collections, major awards or multiple third-party source. I agree with KnightLago about the mass AfD though. Contemporary artists (where an international profile can be verified, or not) are mixed up with early twentieth century artists (where verifiability is more complex, especially for Chinese artists).--Ethicoaestheticist (talk) 00:35, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Comment Apologies, KnightLago hasn't said anything here about the mass AfD.--Ethicoaestheticist (talk) 01:16, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

• Keep The images linked in the article are their own proof of notability. Absolutely, this has been the most pleasurable AfD to research I've seen. Have you seen the images at [1]? If this doesn't belong on Wikipedia, we've gone crazy. I'm bookmarking the external links just in case! I get 11,300 ghits for "Wang Yi Guang" -wikipedia. The prominent returns are indeed this artist, though there are some other returns for that name. There was a catalog of the exhibition at the Schoeni Gallery published, it's for sale on that website,[2] and I found confirmation at a Cornell University Chinese Avant-garde Art Archive: [3], listed as Wang Yi Guang: Retrospective of Tibet - The Spirit and Movement.--Abd (talk) 02:02, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

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