Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jessica Silverman Gallery


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The result was delete. Having disregarded the opinion of Matthewwells55, who has been indeffed as a sock. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 02:40, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Jessica Silverman Gallery

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I don't see how this comes near to meeting WP:CORP. The gallery does what all art galleries do – have shows, try to sell works of art, promote themselves and sometimes the artists, etc. The article was created by a user named Jsginfo, and appears to have been an attempt at promotion from the day it was started. We don't allow promotion. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:54, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
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 * Keep (although consider moving to Jessica Silverman). She and her gallery are widely covered in the art press and somewhat in Bay Area media. I added various sources. The content was not in the slightest bit promotional, so that cannot be a reason for deletion. It comes down purely to notability. With coverage in various publications, she passes WP:GNG. --Colapeninsula (talk) 11:34, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep This is not a promotional entry; the Jessica Gallery is now established in the Bay Area and the entry is sufficiently referenced User:Matthewwells55 (talk) 15:11, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete Fails WP:CORPDEPTH, WP:ORGIND and GNG. The article currently has 5 sources. 4 definitely fail the criteria for establishing notability as the articles are mostly interviews/advertorials and fail WP:CORPDEPTH and/or WP:ORGIND. The only one that looked potentially good was this one from artsy.net but turns out they're partners so also fails as it isn't intellectually independent. -- HighKing ++ 20:27, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 00:39, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Strong delete as blatant self-promotion of a non-notable gallery. --Lockley (talk) 02:44, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment I'm not sure whether the article is about Jessica Silverman or the gallery. I'd be willing to presume notability of the gallery based on its own website (the advertorials are sufficient for existence), Jessica Silverman herself is not notable. Power~enwiki (talk) 05:16, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete The article lacks focus, it discusses both the gallery and the owner. I don't see anything that would substantiate a claim of importance or notability. The article says nothing about the gallery besides where it is, when it was founded and what it sells. Those things apply to any retail establishment, they exist somewhere, they were established and they sell stuff. As for the founder herself, that her father created an important collection of Fluxus work is immaterial, notability is not inherited. Mduvekot (talk) 04:17, 5 June 2017 (UTC)


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