Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nathan Greene (artist)


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The result was   keep. JForget 00:14, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: The article was moved before the AFD closure to Nathan Greene. -- JForget 00:15, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Nathan Greene (artist)

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Non-notable painter that wasn't eligible for speedy. I tried cleaning it up to keep it from being a blatant advertisement, but a search didn't help me find reliable sources to establish notability of an individual.

Admittedly, this is far outside my knowledge domain. I'm happy to be proven wrong. tedder (talk) 06:15, 25 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions.  -- tedder (talk) 06:18, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

A search yields hundreds of Nathan Greene's paintings.Mr.Atoz (talk) 21:24, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * That image search only showed a small handful of images for me, actually (EDIT: revised search term, above, does show hundreds). Searching on my (real) name shows over a hundred hits too. In any case, WP:GOOGLEHITS is a pretty poor argument. tedder (talk) 21:29, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, the previous search used "Green" not "Greene". The revised search yields 2,320.  Most of the images are those of Nathan Greene. My serarch yielded 15 unique Nathan Greene paintings of the first 18 images shown. Mr.Atoz (talk) 22:00, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * That's fine, but google hits don't mean it is notable. tedder (talk) 22:10, 25 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep:, , , , and more sources on Google show that his art has received enough attention to make him pass WP:CREATIVE. Joe Chill (talk) 22:48, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * He painted key commissions for NASA while being granted access to launchings, landings, and astronaut training to photograph painting reference. He made two popular paintings for the VersaCare Corporation. . Joe Chill (talk) 22:54, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * "Rarely does a Christian artist emerge with the balance of strengths and emotional intensity of Nathan Greene. His large, luminous paintings of Christ in contemporary settings deliver powerful images that go straight for the heart...". Joe Chill (talk) 22:55, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * From the article, "A Greene paiting hangs in the office of the US Senate chaplain Barry Black. The evangelical television show It Is Written uses a Greene portrait of Jesus in its opening credits." Joe Chill (talk) 23:00, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Good work Joe Chill! Those should all be added to the article.   D r e a m Focus  06:13, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep per User:Joe Chill above (sources quoted satisfy WP:N). - DustFormsWords (talk) 07:13, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep based on the sources found by Joe Chill. Edward321 (talk) 13:32, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Thanks to User:Joe Chill for saving an article that was proposed for speedy deletion ONE MINUTE after its creation.--Milowent (talk) 15:02, 28 October 2009 (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.