Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dancing Girl (Rabindranath Tagore)


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The result was   delete. Nakon 20:21, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Dancing Girl (Rabindranath Tagore)

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While I'm loathe to reduce Tagore's profile on the encyclopedia, this article presently seems to be a pretty clear violation of WP:NOTGALLERY. While searches via various engines and archives turned up hundreds of false positives in which Tagore's name intersects with the phrase "dancing girl", I was unable to find so much as a single source which speaks to the significance of this particular painting, nor indeed one that even references it in passing. The breadth of Tagore's fame means that I may well have missed a significant source in one of the languages I did not search in, but the fact remains that this article has been up since 2009 without a single source being added to it to establish notability or elucidate on the topic beyond the simple 8-word statement that makes up the entirety of its text. I hope I'm surprised and this discussion turns up something, but at present it seems the correct course of action is to delete.  S n o w  talk 06:45, 16 February 2015 (UTC)


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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Sam Sing! 01:29, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete, I spent now quite some time and I was not able to find anything about the painting.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:19, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –  nafSadh did say 22:01, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete I searched many combinations of translations of his name and the title, as well as searching directly by image. I found


 * a mirror of an RS which doesn't mention the painting;
 * a WP mirror;
 * a blog post about his putative colorblindness whose complete coverage of the painting is, "A painting by Tagore displayed here, named "Dancing Girl" will tell you how unusual the colors are";
 * a blog which uses the painting as illustration that he painted; a blog hagiography where it's labeled "painting by Poet";


 * etc. No evidence of its appearing in an RS or getting anything like significant coverage. I sympathize with the desire to look out for a worthy WP:Systemic bias sufferer, but this article does nothing the commons entry doesn't and isn't likely to be able to. The language barrier is a good point, but Bengali Wikipedia doesn't use it for anything but "he painted, see?" either. FourViolas (talk) 05:56, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
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