Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art


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The result was delete, without prejudice against refunding to draft if a better version can be written. BD2412 T 04:42, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art

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Seems to fail WP:EVENTCRITERIA, most of the sources included are primary sources and the other ones look to be mostly routine coverage. Nathan2055talk - contribs 20:10, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. AllyD (talk) 16:34, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. AllyD (talk) 16:34, 26 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete It's not so easy to find out which event his actually is, there are a number of events with similar names. In the article itself here is mention of a 5th (2013, Argentina), 7th (2017, Uruguay) and 8th (2019, Spain) edition. Per the World Textile Art Organization's own websites, there have been 8 biennales since 2000: USA (2000 AND 2002), Venezuela (2004) Costa Rica (2006), Argentina (2009), Mexico (2011), Uruguay (2017), Spain (2019) and one is planned for 2021 in Chile. Events like the 13th International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art are apparently not related. I looked up all the artists mentioned in the article and except Struthers, not one of them has an article on English Wikipedia. I didn't recognize any of their names, even though I am reasonably familiar with the the field. That may be a sign of my lack of knowledge, systemic bias against women artists, bias against textile arts, etc. On the other hand, I see very little that supports the idea that this biennale is notable. If it such sources exist, I have not been able to find them. Vexations (talk) 17:15, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete If this were to stay, it would have to be a short two paragraph article with good sources. As it stands, the article is an ad that is pretty close the being G11 elegible.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 23:21, 26 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi, I wrote this article, so clearly I am biased. I wanted to let you why I have written this and more about it. It is a Spanish language focused and therefore not having english wiki articles is less surprising, but I was actually surprised when not a single one showed up. I believe the only textile exhibition (or bi/trianniel) to have its own wikipage is the wall hangings exhibition at moma from 1969 (which I wrote). So while the sleuthing Vexations did, discovering the biennial coequally known as the scythia biennial, which is also a major (though less important) textile biennial does not in fact invalidate this one. This biennial is the only large biennial of this scale that regularly changes country (that I am aware of, the European network ones only features 50ish rather than 200ish artists). The scythia event, like many others, is only ever in one country, the Ukraine for Scythia. There are major textile biennials in Poland and China that I will probably write about next. This biennial would at least be in the top 10 if not top 5 textile reoccurring textile events. If the format of the article needs to change, that's fine. There are very few textile artists on wikipeia, but it is hard to claim importance when none of the major international exhibitions have pages either.BF (talk) 11:29, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment I think ThatMontrealIP is right that even if we were to keep the article it would have to be rewritten. Spudlace (talk) 00:08, 29 September 2020 (UTC)


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