Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marc Schmitz


 * 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 merge to Land Art Mongolia.  Sandstein  06:48, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Marc Schmitz

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A review was due so this nom. Seems like most of the coverage are namechecks only so doesn't qualify under WP:SIGCOV. Knud Truelsen (talk) 12:35, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Artists and Germany. Shellwood (talk) 12:44, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment Schmitz has been in a number of biennials and group museum exhibitions, some of which are notable, and others of which aren't. These are probably sufficient for NARTIST. The main problem as noted by Knud Truelsen is there are few RS with SIGCOV. His resume's list of publications only includes about 15 but they mostly are just passing mentions. The biggest red flag for me, is that his resume lists participation in two successive editions of the Venice Biennale, neither of which was verifiable, even after a deep search. The first claims "55th Venice Biennial, Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, Venice, Italy" which implies he was in the main exhibition, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, which he wasn't: . He also claims to have been part of the following biennale: "56th Venice Biennial, Palazzo Zorzi, Venice, Italy." It appears that Palazzo Zorzi is the building where Unesco has a field office, and maybe they held some kind of event, but  I wasn't able to find any independent RS to verify either of these claims. For me this is a big red flag, as it is indicative of the kind of resume inflation associated with PROMO and in some cases Vanity exhibitions. Theredproject (talk) 18:03, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment - This article is part of a small walled-garden consisting of three articles: Marc Schmitz, his partner Dolgor Ser-Od, and their curatorial project Land Art Mongolia, all of which were created by, and mainly edited by two single purpose accounts, with related names, one of which references one of the artists. This indicates that this may very well be a self-promotional WP:COI-WP:PROMO creation. Of the three the Land Art Mongolia may be the most notable; perhaps merging into that artist is an alternative to deletion. Netherzone (talk) 18:49, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. Netherzone (talk) 00:33, 4 April 2022 (UTC)


 * I wonder why the first actions of a new user are to immediately start nominating articles for deletion: Special:Contributions/Knud_Truelsen. This is the 12th nomination. @Knud Truelsen would you care to explain? Vexations (talk) 20:40, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   16:38, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
 * selective merge to Land Art Mongolia. I think the project is notable and he's a part of the story, but not independently notable. As note, there's been some SPA editing there as well and it needs to be cleaned up/maintained with more eyes on it, otherwise the copypasta is going to continue.  Star   Mississippi  14:55, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Merge - selectively with Land Art Mongolia as per comments by . Subject of this article is not notable on their own, but is associated with LAM which seems to be notable. Netherzone (talk) 17:41, 10 April 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.