Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sarah Fisher Ames


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) f  e  minist  15:45, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Sarah Fisher Ames

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From the U.S. Senate website, "Frustratingly little is known about the life and career of Sarah Fisher Ames..." It seems her only claims to notability are creating some busts of Abraham Lincoln and opening a hospital during the Civil War. That doesn't seem like enough to pass WP:N. Maybe I'm wrong, if someone can expand this here, I will withdraw my nom. South Nashua (talk) 17:26, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
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keep demonstrates WP:GNG. The current article doesn't have the best sources. But a quick Google search makes some great suggestions that will improve it:
 * Melissa Dabakis, "Sculpting Lincoln: Vinnie Ream, Sarah Fisher Ames, and the Equal Rights Movement," American Art 22, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 78-101.
 * A Sisterhood of Sculptors: American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome by Melissa Dabakis
 * American Dreams: American Art to 1950 in the Williams College Museum of Art by Williams College. Museum of Art

MassiveEartha (talk) 18:20, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Good enough. I still think she's borderline on notability, but there might be hope for improvement beyond this addition as well. I personally wasn't sure. In hindsight, a PROD probably would have been better here. South Nashua (talk) 18:43, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

keep, as above. I'm taken by the likelihood that Ames was the instigator of (arguably) the most famous portrait of Lincoln: The Interminable, Everlasting Lincolns (Part 1). —jameslucas ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄  15:49, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep I'm waiting on my database renewal, but she appears in many contemporary newspaper articles. I can update the article later. Passes GNG. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:46, 17 May 2017 (UTC)


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