Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of female visual artists from Vancouver


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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 23:19, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

List of female visual artists from Vancouver

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There are two reasons why this should be considered for deletion. The first, and more important, one is that this list consists predominantly of redlinks, sourced primarily to a directory which lists nearly every working artist in Canada. But having an article or being included in a list on Wikipedia is a matter of being able to properly source the topic's notability, not just being able to verify that they exist — so the mere fact that somebody has an entry in a directory, when that directory has over 42,000 people entered into it, does not in and of itself prove that they warrant Wikipedia's attention. And secondly, a list constrained by both the gender of the artist and the individual city where they reside is cutting things far too narrowly to be useful — a List of female visual artists from Canada unconstrained by city, or a List of visual artists from Vancouver unconstrained by gender, might be useful, but constraining for both gender and Vancouver is excessively granular. This would be perfectly valid in project or user space as a "potential future article topics" tracking list — but it's just not a thing we need in content space, especially if it consists mostly of directory-sourced redlinks who might never meet the standards necessary to qualify for Wikipedia articles. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 18:05, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. North America1000 22:34, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. North America1000 22:34, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of British Columbia-related deletion discussions. North America1000 22:34, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Weak keep because though I agree on many of the points raised by Bearcat (a more general list would be useful, many of these 'notables' aren't notable etc.) Wikipedia has a fairly low bar for list articles. I think the list needs a good clean-up, removing the non-notables, but there are enogub genuine notables for the list to be valid. Sionk (talk) 23:57, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete as per User:Bearcat. What he said.E.M.Gregory (talk) 00:37, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 23:56, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per megafail —Мандичка YO 😜 23:58, 22 May 2015 (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.