Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Macky (Photographer)


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The result was   delete. Shereth 15:53, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Macky (Photographer)

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Macky (Photographer) (so capitalized) is a photographer whose article starts Andrew "Macky" McDonald and that refers to our man as Andrew. Apparently he's a regular contributor to Rock Sound magazine but that's not on the shelves of my local newsagents so I can't check. Since 2004 Andrew has been a frequent documentary photographer for Icelandic rock band Mínus -- a band whose article appears to be sourced to its MySpace page. He's had work exhibited in various impressive sounding places as part of the touring Shoot Nations International Youth Day exhibition which indeed sounds very promising. He has a website, here. It's remarkably uninformative. Googling brings up this, which may or may not be about the same person but anyway is about equally uninformative. Neither site has anything about a book or solo exhibition or indeed anything else (unless perhaps this is obscured within Flash or some similar mumbo-jumbo). I decided to google for "Shoot Nations" "International Youth Day". Well, the result is just two hits: this article and something that indexes it. The assertions are minor and even these are not verifiable: the article's had an "Unreferenced" tag since April; enough's enough. -- Hoary (talk) 00:08, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions.   —Hoary (talk) 00:12, 13 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete, in spite of the compelling entry on his CV. There's nothing to see here, move along... Pinkville (talk) 00:41, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per Hoary's excellent research. Fails WP:Bio, thoroughly NN. Debate   木  00:52, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per all the above, no evidence of notability. Beeblbrox (talk) 01:33, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per Hoary. Masterpiece2000   ( talk ) 03:15, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as per WP:N Artene50 (talk) 04:10, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete yadda yadda yadda His CV confirms this is a prank, not a real article. I'm a more notable photographer than this guy, and I've hung out and toured with and photographed rock/alternative/punk bands that actually have articles on Wikipedia--extensively sourced, long standing articles.  All of a sudden I see a need to write an article about myself.  I have a lot more than 2 google hits, and none are my MySpace page.  Yup, 26 distinct google hits on my full name in quotes, mostly to news sites.  Okay, I admit, 4 are posts to list-serves.  But my CVs longer than 3 words.  --Blechnic (talk) 06:33, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Or one word, repeated...? Pinkville (talk) 10:34, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Damn, you're too smart for me.... --Blechnic (talk) 21:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete No notable contributions, no reliable sources. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 19:49, 13 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete per nomination. ukexpat (talk) 03:46, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Houston, we have a snowball. Beeblbrox (talk) 04:34, 15 June 2008 (UTC)


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