Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mart Visser


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The result was keep‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. (non-admin closure) asilvering (talk) 08:23, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Mart Visser

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I couldn't establish that this meets WP:BIO or WP:GNG. It has been in CAT:NN for 14 years; hopefully we can now resolve this. Boleyn (talk) 20:35, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fashion and Netherlands.  Delta  space 42  (talk • contribs) 21:14, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep as an easy pass of the WP:GNG and WP:CREATIVE. This is a famous fashion designer in the Netherlands. See here for the fifty highest-ranking newspaper articles about him. Many are still unavailable as from the 1990s and 2000s. The little that is already available is sufficient. No lack of interest also since. gidonb (talk) 21:43, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep: Passes WP:CREATIVE and WP:GNG. Article needs work, but very much a notable designer and sculptor. Beyond the many newspaper articles mentioned by gidonb:
 * His work has been part of multiple significant exhibitions, including but not limited to Mart Visser Haute Couture in 2003-2004 in the Kunstmuseum Den Haag (which also had an associated book of the same name published by Dutch fashion journalist Fiona Hering), and the 2022 exhibition of his sculptures and paintings in Beelden aan Zee
 * Some of his fashion pieces are part of the permanent collections at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag (can't grab a direct link right now because the museum's site is experiencing some issues; however, once it's back up again, going to kunstmuseum.nl and searching the collection should work) and Centraal Museum Utrecht. Possibly elsewhere too, those just popped up in google without having to go and individually check the collections of every major Dutch museum.
 * Subject of a documentary film on his life and work, and covered in Milou van Rossum's book on Dutch fashion, De Nederlandse mode in 100 kledingstukken. AddWitty  NameHere  00:57, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you, User:AddWittyNameHere. This nomination is another giant BEFORE failure. Folks keep nominating articles mostly because these carry X years of this or that warning. Seemingly in defiance of There is no deadline and WP:AFDISNOTCLEANUP. gidonb (talk) 02:09, 26 January 2024 (UTC)


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