Talk:Printed Matter, Inc.

Merge proposal
NY Art Book Fair doesn't look independently notable. Based on the sources that are currently listed, I doubt it would pass WP:AfD. I propose it be merged into here as a section, probably with less detail than it has now. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:09, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
 * On the fence about this one, I believe that the NY Art Book Fair is notable enough and has independent enough history to deserve its' own article. The event features over 300 different publishers and performance. I think there should be some interesting coverage from this year's event coming out. Burying all the book fair info in the printed matter article may make that article unnecessarily long. I think another solution would be a small Art Book Fairs section in the Printed Matter article and to expand the NY Art Book Fair article; as well as, create an LA Art Book Fair article. --Wil540 art (talk) 16:39, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm also of two minds. The problem is all the WP:RS coverage is simply scheduling news - book fair is happening, it's opening, it's cancelled, etc. If there was some "news" being made out of the fair, then that might be more convincing. Or if there was an argument in the prose stating how important the fair is to the industry that would be interesting. As it sits now, I'm not sure there is "significant" coverage in RS, and whether its notability is asserted very well. Fuzheado &#124; Talk 18:09, 17 October 2022 (UTC)


 * There looks to be an awful lot of coverage of the book fair. If Printed Matter's only real activity/project were the fair, I'd say a merge would make sense, but they've been a store and publisher for a lot longer than they're been a fair organizer. I don't agree that there's not much non-routine coverage. Even some the ones that look routine from the headline (like The NY Art Book Fair Returns Home to Chelsea) have a bit more meat to them than just the announcement. But I'm more looking at the longer reviews/write-ups like Artnews, Vice, short piece from Artnews which provides a longer-term picture, Vice again (as it says in the opening, they've covered it every year since 2012), NY Times, Hyperallergic, Art Documentation, etc. I don't know if the LA version rises to the same level of coverage, but don't think they should be covered together regardless. None of the sources I've seen treat them as a single subject or go into much depth about both of them -- they're all about one or the other. If we were treating them as a section of this article that were then to be spun out, I guess I'd understand, but the NY Art Book Fair looks independently notable. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 13:25, 18 October 2022 (UTC)