Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Dent (artist)


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The result was   delete. It is open to have the article userfied for further work in order to establish notability, but as it stands, the article does not verify notability and no one in this debate was able to find anything significant. SpinningSpark 01:44, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Richard Dent (artist)

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I could not establish that he meets WP:ARTIST or WP:GNG. Seems like promotion (by relative?) from WP:SPA. Boleyn (talk) 16:54, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Weak delete, on the basis there are some possible claims to notability but they are unverified. If the article is written by a relative you would think they would know of any significant coverage of the artist's work and, judging by the quote from The Times, even this does not seem to mention him. Dent has a brief 35 word profile in "Artists in Britain since 1945", which I've added to the article as a reference, but it doesn't suggest he had much of a presence on the art scene. Sionk (talk) 10:46, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Weak delete. Having searched the online archives of The Times, I found that the existing quote does mention him by name (in parentheses, not square brackets — i've corrected the quote in the article). It's hardly significant coverage though, and I found no other relevant hits. The Times does have some mentions for "Group 63" (not to be confused with the Italian Gruppo 63), but the ones I checked were in exhibition listings and none came up in conjunction with "Dent". I don't have access to any other newspaper archives from the period, however. Note that "Artists in Britain since 1945" includes 14,500 artists. Qwfp (talk) 13:03, 11 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep, in the interests of full disclosure, I'm the one who posted it, and I am his grandaughter. But that doesn't mean that he isn't worthy of staying listed. I put the post in when cleaning out Mom's files last year. She had saved several newspaper articles about him, but the only one I mentioned was the Times because it was, unfortunately, the only one that she had cropped the full page so I could tell where and when it was from. She had also saved several exhibition promos. I had only written the first one because I didn't think it was necessary to put more. Most of them were joint exhibits with "Group 63."  Unfortunately, Mom died and all her stuff is in storage halfway across the world from where I am, so so I can't dig it out and cite more right now, but I have added a couple of links to the page. It's really hard to find anything about Richard Dent on the web because this was so long ago.  I don't know how to research newspapers from that time period.  Plus, finding web listings seem to involve filtering through thousands of links about the football player by the same name.  But I think the article is worthy of staying listed, in part because large format enamel work is rare and, indeed he may not be another Picasso and his works don't sell for millions at Christies, but he did have some influence on art in London at that period in history and he was quite prolific.  Also enamel work and copper work is lasting, and I have found several of his works listed in auction catalogs and on on-line auction sites, not just from England but from as far away as Australia and Canada. So people still hold his works and have an interest in knowing who created the piece of artwork they are holding.  --Mariandent (talk) 17:26, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. No great finds in the major databases (though tough to distinguish from the Chicago Bears player), and a search of the British Newspaper Archive didn't find anything useful. I can also confirm that The Times cited is a passing mention. czar ♔   07:15, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
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