Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Drik picture library


 * 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   keep. There's a consensus for a keep and the original concerns seem to have been addressed. A big thank you to for his effort in updating the article and for finding additional sources. I will also go ahead and do the move as well. (non-admin closure)  D u s t i *Let's talk!* 23:12, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Drik picture library

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This article has had large chunks of promotional text removed (it was written by a clearly COI account) but still seems to be a semi-coherent promotion for this picture agency and its related organisations. I'm not seeing anything anywhere to convince me it meets WP:GNG or WP:NCORP. Theres no explanation for the "award winning" claim either. Sionk (talk) 22:23, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:10, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
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 * Keep (and move to "Drik Picture Library", so capitalized). The article has at times been a bloated PR text (2009 example) and was crap when Sionk nominated it for deletion. And it's still an unconvincing mess now, with its almost complete lack of conventional references and strange section of "further reading". It's me who perpetrated this section -- as a stopgap measure, because I simply lack the time to do more work on this article in a great hurry. The section recycles what was previously a list of "references", but replaces dead links with Wayback copies and removes links that were obviously unusable. (Do not infer that I think all that survive are usable. I haven't paid close attention to all of them.) We have some ho-hum stuff here, but we also have a "case study" of Drik in a non-negligible book, and more. To me, the term "picture library" looks like "stock photo agency"; but (for those with any interest in notability in the normal, non-Wikipedia sense of the word) it's clear that this outfit is more. As for the comment that there's no explanation for "award winning", that's right, there wasn't -- but it only took me a couple of minutes to find (here) that not only did it get an award, but that the award was of €200,000, which I'd say is a fair amount of moolah. So yes, the article needs more work (at the end of which most of the "further reading" will be recycled as references [via ] and the remainder dumped), but there's enough promise here for it to be retained. -- Hoary (talk) 06:41, 15 September 2014 (UTC) ... To summarize: (i) Gerhard Haupt and Pat Binder, "Drik: Images for change", (ii) Saad Hammadi, "Drik turns 18", and (iii) the case study in the book provide enough decently sourced info for a short article, and (iv) we have evidence of a €200,000 award: notability in both the normal and the Wikipedia senses of the word. -- Hoary (talk) 23:48, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep I'm liking this one. Given the cultural and language barriers, there's a surprising amount of english language coverage. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:15, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep I do agree that the article needed to be improved when nominated for deletion. But there are several independent reliable sources, in addition to those already mentioned, that indicate Drik's notability. An article on the New York Times with several paragraphs about Drik, noting that "Drik put Bangladesh on the map for photography." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/arts/international/in-bangladesh-a-vibrant-contemporary-scene.html?_r=1 A book published by Routledge, Icons of War and Terror, describes the founder Alam's vision and Drik's work. This reference could also serve as a source for the concept "majority world." http://books.google.com.tw/books?id=dtBVDQ5mtm8C&pg=PA56&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false Puchku (talk) 08:54, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
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