Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephen Albair


 * 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. No indication found that the subject complies with guidelines at WP:ARTIST. Article appears to be promotional in nature. Joyous! | Talk 05:58, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Stephen Albair

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This article is nominated for deletion because the subject of the article is a living person who appears to have created this page about himself as self promotion with the help of an associate, a trave writer John Vlahides, who appears to have helped him create the page. This San Francisco associate John Vlahide =User:KryponiteSF/John Vlahides, also created his own autobiographical page in 2013 and then appears to have begun the creation of Stephen Albair's promotional biography as all the early pages are by him. The subject of the article also appears to have done major editing and writing, without sources, including his artist resume, which is not published anywhere and just created by the artist listing many shows that are not sourced anywhere. This is a clear case of autobiography and solicitation of others to assist in creating a promotional page under the guise of a biography. Most of the links are to pages created by the subject himself, as there are large sections of his personal history with no sources whatsever. He posts images of what he claims are articles, but there is no original source.

For example, footnotes 16 and 17 go to his own website, with images of purported articles.

http://www.stephenalbair.com/pdf/BKK_POST_2008.pdf

http://www.stephenalbair.com/pdf/BangkockPost.pdf

Others are dead links such as https://www.kathmandu-bkk.com/exhibition_past021.html

It also has multiple issues, some dating back to 2013 when it was created, including

This article is an orphan, (May 2013)

This article needs additional citations for verification. (August 2020)

This article uses bare URLs, which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot. (August 2022) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ElongatedGrin (talk • contribs) 06:52, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2022 October 29.  —cyberbot I   Talk to my owner :Online 16:32, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Artists, Photography,  and California. Shellwood (talk) 16:57, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete wow; zero sources found about the artist other than listings or photo credits. The art works uploaded here are listed as copyrighted by the artist but are uploaded by another person as "own work", so likely a copyvio. Likely COI article creation per above. Oaktree b (talk) 18:38, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete highly promotional article with essentially no reliable, independent sourcing. Best, GPL93 (talk) 20:22, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete This artist does not meet WP:NARTIST. I fail to find a reliable source that he has ever been included in the an exhibition at the Renwick. I removed uncited exhibition items and removed images that have been nominated for deletion at the commons. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 02:07, 1 November 2022 (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.