Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rafael Megall


 * 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. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:44, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Rafael Megall

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A Painter. No reliable and independent references in the article or to be found. Found some minor stuff at galleries that are showing/selling his works, but that is not independent. There are copyright problems with the text. Prod was contested on unknown grounds. Bgwhite (talk) 00:14, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete No evidence of coverage by reliable third-party sources. A lot of blogs, but nothing that passes WP:RS. DarkAudit (talk) 00:38, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 16:14, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 16:14, 29 May 2012 (UTC)


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


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  DGG ( talk ) 08:21, 5 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. A Google search for ("rafael megall") yielded no sign of independent in-depth coverage.  I tried refining the search by adding the names of cities in which the article states that he's exhibited, e.g. ("rafael megall" toronto), ("rafael megall" firenze OR florence).  Since he's described as having exhibited at least three times in NYC, I searched the New York Times website for ("rafael megall"); when that yielded zero results, I searched for (megall rafael) without quotes; this produced nothing on our subject.  Searching the New Yorker website for (megall) also brought zero results.  There may be Armenian-language coverage that I'm not finding, but based on my searches, I'd say that there's fairly clear WP:GNG failure.  Ammodramus (talk) 23:52, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
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