Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lansing Art Gallery


 * 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 no consensus. Spartaz Humbug! 22:28, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Lansing Art Gallery

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I found no significant coverage. It also partially reads like an advertisement. SL93 (talk) 11:53, 25 April 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   12:19, 2 May 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –&#8239;Joe (talk) 00:04, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Arts, Museums and libraries,  and Michigan. SL93 (talk) 11:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Borderline G11 that's copied from here so G12 is also an option Delete Unable to identify ORG-compliant sourcing, mostly local coverage of exhibits, event listings and staff departures. Star   Mississippi  13:11, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep The PROD tag that was based on the false assertion that the text was copied from the referenced link was removed by an admin As noted in the removal, there was no overlap whatsoever between the article and the source, so the COPYVIO assertion by two different editors is utterly mystifying. I've added more text and sources.  The sources are not all local, as there is significant statewide coverage.  At first I thought that this might be a case for redirecting to the existing article subsection Lansing but I now think that a stand-alone article is appropriate. Banks Irk (talk) 17:00, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * The source says Visual arts exhibitions, statewide art competitions, lease/purchase program and gallery shop, Holiday Art Market, referrals/information resource, ArtSmart - after school art classes, Art Scholarship Alert - high school art exhibition, Summer visual arts camp and guided field trips. The article as of this edit said Serving as a multipurpose space within the community, the gallery currently offers a meeting place for other arts organizations, exhibition facilities for Michigan artists and membership for individuals, families, small businesses and large corporations as well as statewide open competitions, education outreach, "Art Smart" after school classes, Art Scholarship Alert, high school competition, summer art camp, Saturday workshops, artist demonstrations and lectures. down to the same capitalization/spacing on Art Smart, Art Scholarship. The text was even closer in this version which should probably be RevDel'ed if the article remains. @Primefac thoughts on that? Its borderline, but there's clearly copy pasting going on.  Star   Mississippi  17:08, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * If the phrasing is a group of items, i.e. a list, that cannot reasonably written in any other meaningful way (e.g. "cat, dog, horse" vs "horse, dog, cat") then it's not really something that can by copyrightable. Primefac (talk) 20:00, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks @Primefac. That makes sense. The exact same capitalization was what threw me off. Seemed to be more branding that natural use of capitals, spacing but it's all subjective Star   Mississippi  20:09, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. Meets WP:GNG due to WP:SIGCOV already in article, including ,,. I also did a newspapers.com search and found significant coverage from papers other than Michigan, to be sure that it was not purely local coverage, and found articles in papers from (at least) Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky. Jacona (talk) 14:15, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep: When I first looked at this AfD I thought the topic suffers the difficulty of many art space initiatives in demonstrating notability and that the best that might be achieved would be to suggest including it in an Art in  article. However it has been significantly enhanced by and, while the initiatives described are similar to those of similar art group elsewhere, I think there is enough now to indicate notability here. AllyD (talk) 07:47, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete: as per nom. Similar to Draft:Maddox Gallery. But art scene is very much subjective, a due dilligence is must. - Hatchens (talk) 06:02, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep: Meets WP:ORG with references. —Jonathan Bowen (talk) 11:10, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. Sourced article. `~HelpingWorld~` (👽🛸) 14:19, 19 May 2022 (UTC)


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