Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jessie Lavington Evans


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The result was keep. – bradv  🍁  01:52, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Jessie Lavington Evans

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I'm a bit torn on whether this passes WP:NARTIST or not. Her work has been shown in a few galleries, but as temporary exhibitions, and there's only one column by a major art critic cited. This seemingly perfectly straddles the line of notability for artists set forth by WP:NARTIST, and I could legitimately go either way on it; I'm hoping AfD can get some more experienced eyes on it if nothing else. Nathan2055talk - contribs 21:36, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
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 *  Leaning delete  Except for finding school age prizes for artistic endeavors, I struck out with Newspapers.com, the Internet Archive, and Google Books. A general web search wasn't that fruitful either. However, I've seen dramatic improvements by Australian editors on these kinds of articles, so I don't doubt that it might be rescued. A new reference might be the Summer 2006-7 issue of the Brighton Historical Society Journal where she is featured. Her work does come up for sale at auction. So far it doesn't pass WP:GNG Curiocurio (talk) 23:43, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm going to switch sides here and vote Keep. There are probably enough sources out there to sustain an article, per WP:NEXIST, only that it would require consulting physical copies in archives and libraries. Curiocurio (talk) 17:53, 24 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Leaning keep. Note that her middle name is sometimes indicated as "Laver". There seems to be some additional coverage of her in Completing the Picture: Women Artists and the Heidelberg Era (1992), but I'm only able to see snippets on gbooks. The snippets include references to additional texts, but I can't see the content of the footnotes. I'm also seeing some references to More Than Just Gum Trees (1993) which apparently describes her, but doesn't seem to be available on-line. Given these clues and the age of the subject, I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume sources exist off-line. pburka (talk) 00:20, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete An 1890 newspaper clipping, a self published gallery catalog, a self published Wix website is not enough coverage to meet WP:NARTIST "primary subject of an independent and notable work". Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 01:55, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment Except, that's probably not all the sources there are. The editors above have mentioned there might be journal articles and books. Deus et lex (talk) 10:50, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment, "I struck out with Newspapers.com, the Internet Archive, and Google Books. A general web search wasn't that fruitful either", people, people, people, this person is an ozzie so the go to place is Trove that yields some tantalising hits: a couple of articles from the Albury and District Historical Society Bulletin, and "Biographical cuttings files contain cuttings, e.g. articles, obituaries, from Australian newspapers and journals from the early 20th century to 2000.", plus as a Trove person here that lists a couple of exhibitions - "A Century of Australian Women's Art (1880s-1990s)", and "The Other Side of the Coin: Women artists from the Albury collection",  plus a gsearch did bring up article in the Brighton Historical Society Journal, unfortunately unless someone can access physical copies of these ... Coolabahapple (talk) 12:59, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Coolabahapple I'm an Aussie living in Melbourne, and i dissagree, - while trove is the place to go to for Oz historical sources, these sources aren't great - they are not national or even state newspaper titles - they are only regional newspapers. Having a few regional exhibitions does not make you a noted artist worthy of a wikipedia page. 03:40, 26 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete I live close to the area where this artist was active, I've not heard of them. After running some searches, there is very little on them. Coolabahapple has noted some mentions in small local papers, and a few bios, but nothing in state or national newspapers that indicates major notability. Deathlibrarian (talk) 05:31, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep - I will be contrarian and will argue that documented dead people from the nineteenth century, and some of her work was in the nineteenth century, are usually notable. In a period when there was less of an excess of writing, being written about proved something.  Robert McClenon (talk) 03:33, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak keep per Robert McClenon and the sources found by Coolabahapple. Deus et lex (talk) 12:08, 24 September 2020 (UTC)


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