Talk:Vicki Lee Soboleff

Hoary
I don't see how you can in good conscience note that an NARTIST criteria is "The person's work (or works) has: [...] (d) been represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums" and that "We have evidence that two major museums each have a single mask made by VLS" and come to the conclusion that the subject meeting the requirement is "very weak evidence for notability"; nor why a named award does not satisfy "won significant critical attention". Doubtless the article can be improved, but there seems to be no real doubt about notability here. --Tagishsimon (talk) 17:54, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I have no opinion on Soboleff's notability,, only on the evidence in this article for the notability. The article has only one comment on any of her works, and that comment is by Soboleff herself. True, it shows that she has won an award, and I'm entirely willing to believe that this is a major award, presented for highly distinguished work that merited and obtained critical commentary. The sentence about the award comes with a single reference. All that the cited source says about the award going to her is "2016: Vicki Soboleff, Juneau". All in all, the evidence presented for notability struck me as feeble yesterday, and it strikes me as no better now. By declining the submission, I'd hoped to prod the nominator into looking harder for source material and into augmenting the draft. -- Hoary (talk) 00:57, 15 January 2023 (UTC)