Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martin Bigum


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The result was   delete. Consensus was leaning towards delete. So I used my more-than-rudimentary Danish to review the Danish articles, and then the French review. This confirmed the consensus. (✉→BWilkins←✎) 22:37, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Martin Bigum

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Prod'd ages ago in 2007, removed by an IP address for no good reason. No independent sources. Possible COI from the article's author in 2006 (he went around adding links to Bigum in unrelated articles about how awesome Bigum is). Given 5 years to develop since the prod was removed... there are still no sources. Google search for "Martin Bigum -wikipedia" turns up his own webpage, an exhibition he once did (not really a 3rd party source but better than his personal webpage, sure), and mostly user-edited stuff otherwise (Youtube, other user-editable encyclopedias). Danish Wikipeda article isn't any better. SnowFire (talk) 00:00, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - I also could find no reliable sources. Apparently he is a non-notable Renaissance man. - MrX 02:37, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. AllyD (talk) 09:20, 1 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment I'm finding more substantial Danish-language newspaper material such as this interview from 2007, this 2010 article; also this French-language review of his 2003 exhibition in Paris. AllyD (talk) 10:21, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Reply. The paris-art reference is solid, just very short.  I don't think the interviews are too useful for proving notability, though.  This does help the article's case, just not sure it's really enough. SnowFire (talk) 16:39, 1 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep There are interviews of him, and yes in non-English sources. Also has (at least)two books published about his work.Deathlibrarian (talk) 10:43, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Reply. From the Google Books result I assume you mean?  "The face of God" is a self-published book.  There are two in-passing references in "Production Methods: Behind the Scenes of Virtual Inhabited 3d Worlds" and "Design Thinking Business Analysis: Business Concept Mapping Applied" but both appear quite minor, it's not like the books are about his work, they just used him as an example on a single page.  The other results are Wikipedia-mirror books that don't count. SnowFire (talk) 16:39, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Denmark-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:01, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:01, 6 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 00:05, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mediran  talk to me! 09:24, 15 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete - Fails WP:GNG. Interviews BTW are the lowest form of reference, since it is the perfect self citation.--Nixie9 (talk) 04:54, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
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