Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anthony Christian


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The result was   delete. Black Kite (talk) 10:23, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Anthony Christian

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No evidence supporting that this WP:BLP establishes notability as an artist. 1292simon (talk) 11:15, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
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 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  D u s t i *Let's talk!* 02:49, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

 
 * Delete and Userfy having just a single source is not an automatic death-sentence for an article, but in this case I have not yet found a single independent reliable source on Anthony Christian. (The cited source is the webpage of the artist.) I examined all 171 hits on GoogleScholar, and none were about this chap. In GoogleBooks I found several mentions of the portrait painter Anthony Christian-Howard (both with and without the hyphen), but no mentions of this Anthony Christian. Having one-man shows at galleries, such as the Hazlitt, is indicative of someone who is either notable or likely to become notable, but the problem here is that much of the newspaper (and magazine if any) coverage is likely to be before electronic preservation of those sources.  Nonetheless, I would (in fact did) expect to find something in reliable electronic sources, but I did not. Citations to paper only reliable sources is perfectly okay. I would urge the author to request and accept WP:Userfication, pending time spent in musty old libraries reviewing newspaper archives to recover the citations that would prove substantial coverage of his child prodigy status and coverage in the arts section of his one-man shows. Some magazine coverage in reliable sources would be nice too. The National Gallery has a press clippings file on him #NG24/1957/15.  Some artists keep folios of their past news press, so checking with the artist or his gallery might be useful.  I would also seriously consider rewriting the chronology in prose paragraphs with appropriate in-line citation. P.S. There is a press photo of him on sale at eBay and Diomedia, here and here. --Bejnar (talk) 22:13, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
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 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 12:02, 1 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete in fact double delete with cheese -blatant self-promotional artist-spam by non-notable local painter (and wife). no sources except artist's own website and the so-called ICHOR gallery --which is also run by the artist. note the website's copyright notice on the bottom of the pages: "Copyright of Anthony Christian and Marian "Fanny" Christian. All Rights Reserved" see archive snapshot here. the article is AUTObiographical BLP. Cramyourspam (talk) 18:17, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
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