Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arthur Drexler


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The result was keep. RL0919 (talk) 20:13, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Arthur Drexler

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No evidence of notability, of the four sources two are not independent and one is just a catalog entry for a book on sale. Thus all we have left is a single obit. Not enough to establish notability.Slatersteven (talk) 16:52, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Comment: Fixed malformed AfD. WJ94 (talk) 17:03, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 17:52, 30 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep, Move it to draft if you don't think its up to mainspace just yet, but Drexler looks pretty notable; the obituary is from the New York Times, and he has a book written about his tenure as director at [[Moma Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art: The Arthur Drexler Years, 1951–1986 [] which appears to contain a lot of biographic material as well as his work for Moma (I can see first two chapters in google books) I added a few refs found after a quick search of JSTOR, but there looks to be more - reviews of exhibitions and reviews for the many books he wrote as well. Curdle (talk) 09:58, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Never been sure about obits, as they can just be placed by the family (and the NYT is the local new paper for New York), Moving to draft might be a good idea (and I am not sure really how to), as I still think we have a way to go.Slatersteven (talk) 10:52, 1 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep. As well as the book found by Curdle, and the New York Times article which is clearly a proper, editorial obituary, there are, , and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15436322.1957.11466192?journalCode=rcaj19. Phil Bridger (talk) 11:24, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

OK now we have enough to pass notability..Slatersteven (talk) 12:04, 1 December 2019 (UTC)


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