Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Katie Holten


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The result was   keep - nice rescue! Nancy talk  06:14, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Katie Holten

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Artist with no evidence of notability: a Google News search for "Katie Holten" produces no hits. The article appears to be solely the work of a single-purpose account and one other account named after her current publicity agency, and the notability and primarysources tags which I added nearly a year ago were promptly removed. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:24, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete no assertion of notability. Dlabtot (talk) 20:01, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions. --  Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:25, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - as per nom. Person fails notability criteria. Snappy (talk) 23:34, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:03, 2 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep - conflict of intyerest issues aside, there appears to be quite a lot of coverage about this artists. Behind a pay wall, but the STL dispatch writes about her, as well as this article, and some more about her in this article, as well as being featured in this article.  And that's just a sampling of the results from Google News searching. -- Whpq (talk) 13:24, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –  Juliancolton  | Talk 13:51, 6 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep I found a lot of articles covering this person when I did a google news archive search, some with significant coverage. The sources Juliancolton gave are a good example.  Also, google scholar finds sources, including this one: .  Also there is a lot of mention of her exhibitions on Museum sites:, etc.  The article does need to be improved--the way it starts is highly un-encyclopedic.  I will put in some work now and hopefully that will help convince people this page is worth keeping.  Cazort (talk) 15:56, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Nice mention in this and this and holten&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=2000|1998 - 2008&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=("katie" and "holten")&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no in the St. Louis Post but ya gotta pay. Worth a keep though, just needs references Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 15:59, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment I completely reworked the introduction. It now shows clear arguments for notability, in her (unusual) choice for the Venice Biennale, and her winning the AIB award.  For an artist so close to the start of her career, she seems to have attracted an extraordinary amount of attention.  Cazort (talk) 16:29, 6 April 2009 (UTC)


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