Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Derek Brueckner


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 07:59, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Derek Brueckner

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Advertorially toned WP:BLP of an artist, not making or reliably sourcing any strong claim to passing our notability standards for artists. The main notability claim here is that he's had gallery shows, which is not an instant free pass into Wikipedia absent real reliable source coverage in media, but all but two of those shows are completely unreferenced, and the two that do have references are both citing the primary source front splash pages of the galleries themselves — with the added bonus that any mention of him has long since expired off both of those pages, because the shows in question were more than a decade ago. And the only other reference present here at all is the deadlinked primary source website of a non-notable conference he gave a presentation at 12 years ago, which is not a notability boost. This also contained an extremely large linkfarm of external links, which I've stripped, but nearly all of the ELNO violations were still primary sources with the exception of just two articles in his own hometown local newspaper, which is not enough media coverage all by itself to make an artist notable to the rest of the world.

There's also a likely conflict of interest here, as the article was created by a virtual WP:SPA who never edited Wikipedia on any topic but Brueckner between 2007 and 2014, and then disappeared until making a very small cluster of edits in 2017 to our article about Winnipeg (Brueckner's hometown) itself — and even those edits have since also since been scrubbed from that article as advertorialism, because they focused primarily on promoting the same local galleries that Brueckner has been directly associated with.

As always, the notability test for artists is not simply the ability to use directly affiliated primary sources as metaverification that their work exists — it is the ability to show distinctions, such as notable art awards and/or critical attention from a variety of real media above and beyond just a couple of pieces in the artist's own hometown newspaper. Bearcat (talk) 14:53, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 14:53, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Manitoba-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 14:53, 1 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete I cannot find any independent in-depth coverage.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 15:33, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 07:41, 2 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete does not meet our inclusion criteria for artists.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:49, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete pernom. Borgia Venedict (talk) 13:56, 8 March 2020 (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.