Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pez (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. Consensus is that the sources presented are insufficient to meet the bar. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 13:57, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Pez (artist)

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Most, if not all, of this article's sources are WP:SPS, WP:Unreliable, or mention the subject only in passing. AviationFreak 💬 21:49, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions. AviationFreak 💬 21:49, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Arts-related deletion discussions. AviationFreak 💬 21:49, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Spain-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 22:30, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~ Amkgp  💬  05:19, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete not enough indepdent 3rd party secondary reliable sources to pass GNG.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:58, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep: I see discussion of Pez's work in these published sources:
 * Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell by Jane Golden, David M. Scobey, Robin Rice and Monica Yant Kinney, Temple University Press (2002), pp 37 & following
 * Modern Spain by Enrique Ávila López, ABC-CLIO (2015) pp 284-285
 * Stanford Alumni Magazine Vol 24 (1996), pp 16-17
 * I think this is enough to demonstrate notability. I'll add these to the article in a Further reading section, so that editors who want to improve the article can use them as sources. — Toughpigs (talk) 18:36, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * And doing that, I just noticed that there's already a link to a Time Magazine article from 2005, based on the book Street Art: The Spray Files by Louis Bou. It's clear that Pez has been a recognized figure in this field for years. — Toughpigs (talk) 18:40, 23 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete the coverage is very sparse. Yes, he got included in a couple books, but the coverage is quite trivial and that is about it in English. I've cleaned up the article by removing unsourced sections and informal-speaking style writing. What's left is not much, and the available sourcing is not going to support the small amount of text that is there now. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 18:56, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * You should not have taken out the Modern Spain listing in Further reading; it's clearly multiple pages on the subject (we can only see the first half-page in the snippet view). I don't think that you should take those out at all, really. — Toughpigs (talk) 19:33, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * my browser showed me the entire entry on page 284-285, which was two short sentences.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 19:51, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry, that was the wrong one. The Philadelphia Murals link is the one I'm talking about, with more than a page of content, taken out of the article's further reading section. — Toughpigs (talk) 20:33, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't care if you put it back in. It's not particularly helpful as it's a narrative passage told in second person about Pez vandalizing something. I took it out because do not usually link Google books entries in the further reading as they are snippet views and display differently for different readers.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 20:44, 23 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete, coverage is sparse and trivial. Not enough reliable third party coverage about him or his works. ≫ ( Lil- Unique1 ) -{ Talk  }- 12:39, 30 June 2020 (UTC)


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