Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Neff (artist)


 * 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   delete. BigDom  talk  17:09, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Michael Neff (artist)

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Non-notable individual lacking GHits and GNEWS if substance. Fails WP:BIO and WP:ARTIST.  ttonyb (talk) 04:33, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep I believe this artist is notable as he has been featured on numerous blogs and has recently been profiled in more mainstream Internet publications. The Google search "michael neff chalk" returns more than 15,000 results. I am a fairly inexperienced Wikipedia writer and editor and would appreciate specific constructive criticism that will help me meet criteria to keep this article from being deleted.Thecornkid (talk) 04:37, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete unless clearly 3rd party sourced references can be found and added. The references in the article are predominantly to Flickr and artist's statement type articles associated with the subject. AllyD (talk) 08:13, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks AllyD. It looks like the articles about him that contain the most content are interviews or profiles where he has given the author a statement of some sort. Many of the blog posts briefly explain the chalk project and serve primarily to post a gallery of images (not that quantity necessarily counts toward credibility in this case, but there are a lot of these spread widely around the world: Japan, Russia, Poland, Mexico, western Europe, etc.) Are interviews not considered 3rd party? When I was researching the article I noticed that the entry on an artist named Ellis Gallagher who does something similar leaned heavily on interviews for references, but admittedly I didn't look into Wikipedia policy on this.Thecornkid (talk) 14:24, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions.  AllyD (talk) 19:19, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  -- -- Cirt (talk) 20:34, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - Subject does not currently meet our notability guidelines. Until there is significant coverage in reliable, third-party sources, there shouldn't be an article, particularly as it's a biography of a living person. Lara  22:11, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Does not have sufficient outside references. Blogs and artists own websites and Flickr uploads are not enough to establish credible encyclopedic notability...Modernist (talk) 22:38, 4 March 2011 (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.