Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jan Frydrych


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The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 21:33, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Jan Frydrych

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Promotional article on an artist who does not meet WP:GNG nor WP:NARTIST criteria. Poor or dead sourcing; exhibits & collections fail verification. Netherzone (talk) 16:53, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
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 * Delete I think we can safely discount any publication (superyachts.com) that writes "Often referred to as a modern day Leonardo Da Vinci, Frydrych’s diverse interests include mathematics, sculpture, design and horology". Art-views as a source isn't much better: "Made of the same optical glass used on the Hubble telescope" and they can't spell micron (microne) and visible (visable). The Art Collector has this to offer: "The works are akin to a Dali or Duchamp: both pioneering within the status quo of the arts and also an examination of, and into, human intelligence".  TL magazine (which is an outlet of Lise Coirier's consultancy, promateria, which operates a gallery in Brussels that has exhibited Frydrych's work) is more of the same: "Aside from putting his heart and soul into cutting and perfecting glassworks for others, he has managed to blaze his own artistic trail over the years and has now created a name for himself amongst the great Czech glass artists that came before him — overcoming and defying what was seized from him all those years before". None of this is significant coverage in independent, reliable sources.  It, promotion, PR, press releases.. Precisely the kind of stuff we should never use. Vexations (talk) 12:41, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. I completely agree with the nomination and analysis above. Also, consider this: there are three articles about glass artists Jan Frydrych, Jaroslav Prošek (deleted after AfD), and Vlastimil Beránek (active AfD) which appear to be related and promotional:
 * All articles cite promotional-sounding sources Crystal Caviar, The Art Collector, and Superyachts.com.
 * All articles were created or significantly expanded by who never contributed to any other articles, so is possibly WP:SPA.
 * (soft-blocked for user name, claimed to be a friend of Vlastimil Beránek) and contributed to these three pages and to nothing else.
 * Anton.bersh (talk) 10:16, 2 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete: some of the references are repeated; all are simply mentions and as such, not reliable sources per GNG. --Whiteguru (talk) 10:20, 4 June 2021 (UTC)


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