Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Erkan Geniş


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. ✗ plicit  12:48, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Erkan Geniş

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A 2005 article about a Turkish painter which makes big claims of notability, but for whom there are no actual reliable sources supporting any of this. All the information online I can find about Geniş are mirrors of his Wikipedia article or WP:USERGENERATED content like this bio on turkishpaintings.com. There isn't a Turkish language Wikipedia entry. He doesn't have an entry in Biyografi.info (which other articles about Turkish people seem to cite a fair amount). His article here says he has "been accepted as one of the Greatest 100 Turkish Painters who Ever Lived, announced by the Ministry of Culture of Turkey" - which would be some evidence, but there's no reference for this either, and I can't find any evidence for this list - there seems to be no mention of it on the articles of any of the artists mentioned at List of painters from Turkey (which surely would include many of the "100 greatest"). Indeed, the Ministry of Culture does have some articles about noted Turkish artists, such as Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu but not Erkan Geniş.

Concerned that there might be more sources in Turkish that I can't find myself, I asked for help at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Turkey. There, GGT - who has experience with the Turkish art scene - has similarly found little to suggest notability.

In summary, this is an effectively unsourced article about a living person which has lain since 2005 without improvement, for whom there is no evidence at all of notability. Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 09:47, 22 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 09:47, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Turkey-related deletion discussions. Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 09:47, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete Nothing for a painter found, some sourcing in Gnews but it's all unrelated. The "100 greatest" description I think is puffy language, perhaps a bit of a fib. Nothing in jstor, nothing in the NYT. Delete for lack of sourcing. Oaktree b (talk) 13:08, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 18:56, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete - All I find in a BEFORE search is Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, IMDb, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter and other user-sumitted content rather than SIGCOV in reliable sources. Fails WP:GNG, WP:NARTIST, WP:ANYBIO and WP:BASIC. Netherzone (talk) 01:04, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete. A page on the Turkish Wiki existed but was deleted. Three times. Suitskvarts (talk) 08:58, 29 August 2023 (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.