Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kim Klassen


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Snow Star   Mississippi  01:37, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Kim Klassen

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This stub was PROD'd and I de-PROD'd it after seeing in the page history that this article had been subject to a previous VFD (the predecessor to AFD). But, apparently, it was an incomplete VFD proposal and no discussion occurred. So, I'm following through on my mistaken de-PRODding and nominating this stub article for a full deletion discussion.

The deletion rationale for the PROD was "non-notable, could find no news articles on this artist". Liz Read! Talk! 00:57, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Artists and Canada. Liz Read! Talk! 00:57, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete This article was created as an unreferenced biography of a living person by an IP editor back in 2005, in the early days of the encyclopedia when IPs could write articles and unreferenced BLPs were permitted. This encyclopedia has come a long way since then and we have much higher standards now. The article asserts that she is "well known" and that she "has exploded onto the scene with her unique style". Setting aside the non neutral aspects of this wording, if any of this was remotely true, it should be easy in the 21st century to find evidence of that. So, I searched online for significant coverage of her in reliable, independent sources and found nothing. Yes, there are commercial sites that sell her kitchy signs, but I can find no evidence that she is notable. Cullen328 (talk) 01:25, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable, no sources found. I doubt it ever was eligible, but here we are. Oaktree b (talk) 01:57, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - This folk artist does not meet our criteria for notability per WP:GNG nor WP:NARTIST. There is no record of distinguished exhibitions, museum collections, reviews of shows that one would normally find for an artist. Netherzone (talk) 02:26, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. Netherzone (talk) 02:27, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete for all the reasons above. Quick search of Wikipedia Library and Newspapers.com yielded nothing of interest. (There was this photo of someone with the same name in the Calgary Herald but it really is just a photo at a folk music festival.) Safe to delete and embarrassing that it has stayed in its current state for so long. Cielquiparle (talk) 07:23, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Seventeen years without in-depth coverage in a reliable source is enough. BD2412  T 17:40, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 19:04, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete I could not find any RS to improve this article. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 21:32, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete No effective references.   scope_creep Talk  09:59, 6 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete Not even 1 reliable source. And I couldn't find any that would deem the subject eligible for Wikipedia.
 * Spiggotr6 (talk) 11:52, 8 September 2022 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.