Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josephine Durkin


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The result was delete. &mdash; Nearly Headless Nick  {L} 16:08, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Josephine Durkin


Anonymous user tried to nominate this article for deletion. Anonymous users can't create pages, so I assume anonymous users can't nominate. Anyways, this article is about a sculpture artist. The artist has at least one WP:RS. Prod was removed by only editor (which was the same editor that added the photograph). Abstain ~a (user • talk • contribs) 06:25, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Plenty of online evidence to assert & verify notability. Subject's page at TAMU Commerce. And here, the subject was awarded a fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Art. Caknuck 07:15, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:PROF as academic (a lot of academics or artists-in-residence at universities are awarded fellowships - nothing remarkable about this) and I can't find substantive evidence for encyclopedic notability as an artist. About 300 google hits - she seems to have had some moderate success but I don't see anything that indicates encyclopedic notability. Given that she completed grad school in 2005, has had only shown her pieces in one non-US exhibition (with the US exhibition participation almost all in galleries local to the schools she attended) - I'd say it's too early for an article on her here. Zero hits in Google Books; Zero relevant hits in Google Scholar. About 9 hits in the Factiva news and magazine database - about 2 or 3 press releases; the rest were 2-3 line mentions in local event calendar listings Bwithh 07:31, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails on WP:PROF.--Anthony.bradbury 23:43, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete -- NN, WP:PROF. Pete Fenelon 02:00, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per Bwithh. utcursch | talk 08:27, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
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