Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amanda Newton (illustrator)


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The result was   no consensus. &mdash; Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 12:34, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Amanda Newton (illustrator)

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The article is for an illustrator at the US Department of Agriculture. Seems to fail WP:ARTIST and WP:ANYBIO. Sources do not appear to give more than passing mentions. ceradon ( talk  •  contribs ) 04:02, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * It seemed to me that this artist fit under point (4) of the WP:ARTIST guideline because her work is part of a special collection formed by the U.S. government. Her work is not available for wide circulation to other museums and collections, but it is part of a group of works that have been singled out as notable by the curators who formed the collection and have been discussed in various papers and books on agricultural history. This article can certainly be improved, but I feel it is premature to delete it. (N.B. I am new to AfD and just realized I need to indicate that I am the article's creator.) Valli Nagy 15:26, 25 January 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ValliNagy (talk • contribs)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, N ORTH A MERICA 1000 04:32, 2 February 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Tom Morris (talk) 10:57, 9 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep. Not only is her work is part of a special collection formed by the U.S. government, it was exhibited at both the Tennessee Centennial Exposition and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Her work and that of other women botanical artists appears to be discussed in Made from this Earth: American Women and Nature (University of North Carolina Press). Unfortunately, only a snippet view is available. It would be helpful if someone can later get hold of the book and add information in it to the article. However, in the meantime, it would be extremely premature to delete this and a net detriment to the encyclopedia. We're talking about someone who lived the first 40 years of her life in the 19th century. Much material from that period is not digitised. Voceditenore (talk) 10:34, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
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