Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michele Abeles


 * 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 keep.  MBisanz  talk 01:21, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Michele Abeles

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Non-notable artist. Fails WP:NARTIST because: has not made significant works. Sro23 (talk) 04:05, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep meets WP:GNG (note, my original search for sources returned more than what is simply cited in the article right now), but if consensus is "meh" then delete per WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE as the subject blanked the article, which is why may have missed the improvements I made to it. I have started a discussion at the biographies of living persons noticeboard to attract more experienced hands to this. Ritchie333 (talk)  (cont)  14:28, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep - meets GNG and WP:ARTIST. Keilana (talk) 15:14, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep - ditto Keilana's comment: meets GNG and WP:ARTIST. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:47, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. Subject has received quite a bit of coverage; there's a New York Times review, a review in W magazine, and her work has been featured at the Museum of Modern Art. That's enough to pass WP:ARTIST. As for the WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE, the article may only be deleted if there is no rough consensus. What we have here seems to be rough consensus, so I would be against that. Colonel Wilhelm Klink (Complaints&#124;Mistakes) 01:32, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep - Hi all, I've been the one working on Michele Abeles' article and I added much more information that foregrounds her notability. With shows at MoMa PS 1 and the Whitney, I think this page should stand. Her work is also collected by the Guggenheim. Mlynch345 (talk) 15:58, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - All right, she's notable, I wouldn't usually move to delete at this point. But the article looks more like a resume than an encyclopedia article, and as the subject of the article has asked for it to be removed, and has complained that some items were incorrect, I think the least we can do is provide an encyclopedic article in which each fact is solidly supported by references. If we can't do that, we should delete it. The artist may be notable, but she is also "a relatively unknown, non-public" figure, so WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE applies. ubiquity (talk) 18:02, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment Mlynch345, the author of this article, works at the Guggenheim Museum, and is going to reach out to the artist on this.--Pharos (talk) 21:05, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Actually, Ritchie333 wrote to Michele on her talk page re: deletion so I don't think it's necessary to connect a second time. Mlynch345 (talk) 18:21, 8 July 2016 (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.