Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alan Vaughan-Richards


 * 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. Tone 16:55, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

Alan Vaughan-Richards

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Queried speedy delete Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:54, 23 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment As the editor who wrote the article, I feel that the charge of COI is quite disingenuous, Vaughan-Richards's architectural works are less popular than John_Godwin_and_Gillian_Hopwood and Fry, Drew and Partners, the other two notable colonial post-colonial British Nigerian/expatriate architects. I knew about him a few years ago because his name always comes up in tropical architecture and African architecture (colonial and Post Colonial) but his public works were not many like the other two, he was more into private architecture, so I was hesitant to write about him. But I came to understand why his name keeps coming up is partly because he co-wrote Building Lagos with his brother in law, Akinsemoyin which comes up in at-least 15 books in a google books [|search] as a source of reference. In addition, he was the editor/started West African Builder and Architect, the first architectural journal in West Africa and wrote the most articles in the jounral. though it was short-lived, it was the first journal that dealt with architecture of West Africa.Alexplaugh12 (talk) 15:20, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Leaning keep, There are some references to this subject in books in print - Swimming Between Worlds, Lagos: A Cultural and Literary History, World Architecture 1900-2000: Central and Southern Africa, The Arts of Africa: An Annotated Bibliography, Volume 2. There appears to be room for growth. Possibly move to draft, if the article is not improved over the period of this discussion. bd2412  T 15:32, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * : It would be helpful if the article was improved by the addition of some of the sources that I have provided above. bd2412  T 17:01, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Subject has zero News results and book references are extremely minor (a few quotes from subject). No significant notability to warrant an article. Article has single author with no other contributors, and author removes NOTABILITY template on his or her own without allowing other contributors the opportunity to find better references. --PhobosIkaros (talk) 15:37, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Subject is deceased, so I do not know how far you are looking at historical news sources.Alexplaugh12 (talk) 16:47, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * News sources are irrelevant when we have much better academic sources, such as those cited in the article. Phil Bridger (talk) 11:33, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Looking at the history of this article I'm not surprised that the author got annoyed with your addition of an obviously incorrect "notability" tag. Notability was perfectly clear from creation. Actions like yours only serve to drive knowledgeable editors away from Wikipedia. Phil Bridger (talk) 11:37, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
 * "Article has single author with no other contributors". And your point is? -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:52, 25 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep - This article needs to be improved, but I don't think it fails WP:GNG. Skirts89 (talk) 16:02, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Nigeria-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 20:10, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 07:40, 24 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep. An entry in Grove Art Online is enough to show that the outside world considers the subject to be a suitable topic for an encyclopedia article, and the other sources cited in the article go even further in underlining notability. Phil Bridger (talk) 11:33, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. Sources prove his notability. -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:51, 25 January 2019 (UTC)


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