Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atelier Viking


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   no consensus. (WP:NPASR) (Non-administrator closure) NorthAmerica1000 00:54, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Atelier Viking

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Non-notable ... well, what? artist's studio, maybe. A lot of artists have studios. Even after making every possible allowance for WP:CSB, this still is not encyclopaedic content until and unless independent reliable sources are added. By "independent" I specifically mean not connected in any way with User:Iopensa and her network of mutually supporting institutions and organisations (WikiAfrica, Lettera 27, Doual'art, Africultures, etc.), some of which may have independent notability, but whose presence here is the result of work by a tiny pressure-group (see Talk:Doual'art for an example). Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:19, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions.  Jinkinson   talk to me  18:21, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 20:17, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 20:17, 11 October 2014 (UTC)


 * 1) Here a link to a major academic publication explaining why artist's studios in Africa are notable  I an not a contributing author of this book.
 * 2) Africultures is an independent reliable source (online and printed) with an established reputation and cited extensively. It is a source independent from the article subject. The link I have with Africultures is that i convinced them while working at lettera27 and WikiAfrica to release the content of their online platforms under cc by-sa in the frame of Share Your Knowledge (about the project and list of institutions involved with related case studies).
 * 3) The publication "Douala in translation" is a source independent from the article subject. It has been produced by doual'art and iStrike Foundation which are not associated to Atelier Viking, which is a different institution in the same city.
 * 4) I am not citing my work in the article (I have another essay in the book "Douala in translation", I have contributed to doual'art and iStrike Foundation as volunteer, but i have never studied or made research on Atelier Viking; i visited it once and I have no professional nor private links with it).
 * Contemporary African art is my professional expertise as researcher, and "tiny" is the perfect term to define the number of people contributing to African-related topics on Wikipedia and specifically to contemporary African art. Contributing to a topic on Wikipedia does not mean to represent a pressure-group and involving institution in releasing content under cc by-sa does not mean that I have or I am involved in a network of mutually supporting institutions and organizations. Here a pretty detailed description of my professional and private links; this article is not meant to be promotional, the sources are cited because relevant to the article (none of them written by me), and the reason I wrote an article about an institution in Cameroon (no paid editing nor paid advocacy) is simply to allow Wikipedia to provide notable content about the cultural production of post-indepedence nations, a simply encyclopedic topic. --Iopensa (talk) 12:31, 15 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep Apparently non-promotional; there is no reason why artists' studios cannot be notable.  DGG ( talk ) 17:07, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 20:55, 21 October 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 01:26, 29 October 2014 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.