Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexandre Gurita


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The result was delete. Courcelles (talk) 04:50, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Alexandre Gurita

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The sources don't stand up to scrutiny: auction page, blog post, cruft, dead link, job application, news brief.

Also, seriously? "His art works are immaterial, consisting of experiences and human networks embedded in real life, such as getting married in 2009 as his graduation art submission." - Biruitorul Talk 04:19, 25 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete Vanity cruft, sub-CV level, embarrassingly sourced. Dahn (talk) 06:14, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete: you're right; upon closer inspection he seems to fail both WP:ARTIST and WP:GNG. FoCuS contribs ;  talk to me!  20:14, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
 * In concrete terms, which (if any) of the WP:ARTIST criteria do you believe this individual passes, and what indication do you have that he has been the subject of (per WP:BASIC) "significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject"? Pointing to a search result that yields a half-dozen snippets of probably unquotable text cannot substitute for actual, quotable coverage. - Biruitorul Talk 20:09, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete There is actually one solid ref in the article: the one published in L'Express about his marriage project. I would not say he is a fake. A few of his projects are artistically interesting. The problem is that they rest upon practices that are in essence deceptive. For example, it seems that the famous French artist Daniel Buren is suing one of the article subject's projects, a rejuvenation/fake copy of the IHEAP school. See Artnews article. So while there might be minimal notability to his projects, I think that including and supporting them in WP is a confusing proposition for the regualr reader. Very diffcult to find good quality refs when the basis of the artistic practice is deception!New Media Theorist (talk) 20:59, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - the search engines do not show anything which would qualify this artist under notability guidelines.  Onel 5969  TT me 16:18, 2 September 2015 (UTC)


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