Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Art Wash


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The result was   delete. WP:SOFTDELETE j⚛e deckertalk 18:59, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Art Wash

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Does not appear to be WP:NOTABLE. See Talk:Art Wash for why creator feels it is, and removed another editor's prod years ago. Boleyn (talk) 14:25, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:15, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arts-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:16, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:16, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Art Wash is not a commercial space, it is an artist-run initiative and it has a bibliography. The space is not currently working and the article is indeed a presentation of an art centre which had an important role in the art scene in Cameroon as a training centre and as promoter of the first outdoor contemporary art festival in Douala. I changed the summary to make it more clear. I do understand that it is difficult to grasp the relevance of the article and this space because the article on Douala does not present the art scene nor the article on Culture of Cameroon, there is nothing jet about the role of art workshops in Africa (a major aspect in the development of contemporary art in the African continent with a relevant and quite large academic bibliography), and there is no explanation about art education in Cameroon (at the time of the workshop there was no academy of art in the country). All those topics do have bibliography but they are not jet on Wikipedia. I wrote this article by copying a research on cultural institutions in Douala made by Giulia Paoletti (currently Ph.D. candidate at the Columbia University) and released in cc by-sa; other texts by Africultures (a well-known French publication focussed on culture in Africa) provided other references. Cameroonian press has published about the space but I had the impression that Cameroonian press might not be considered as relevant as international press so i didn't include it and i did not make a research on it. --Iopensa (talk) 14:04, 1 September 2014 (UTC) 
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 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 07:41, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 02:32, 16 September 2014 (UTC)


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