Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Svend-Allan Sørensen


 * 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The result was   Nomination Withdrawn. Lankiveil (speak to me) 12:06, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Svend-Allan Sørensen

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Procedural nomination on behalf of IP user 117.199.191.163 (talk), who couldn't complete the procedure. His stated rationale on the talk page was:

''I was browsing web.archive.org looking at Wikipedia as it was 10 years ago when I stumbled upon this at http://web.archive.org/web/20040123205659/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_Deletion. Stunningly, it managed to get kept with only 3 keeps out of 10 votes, with such rationales as "This guy exists and is a practicing artist. Not for us to decide if he's the next Picasso" or no rationale at all. These were the days when Wikipedia had no BLP policy, no strongly enforced notability or verifiability policy, and you could "vote" delete or keep for any reason whatsoever at "Votes for Deletion"--and still it only managed to survive by the skin of its teeth.''

''Even more stunningly, the article is still in Wikipedia ten years later, the one-sentence stub has received nothing but cosmetic edits, no one has added sources, and no one has ever attempted to delete it. I think this is technically not eligible for CSD or BLP-PROD due to its age and the fact it survived a deletion decision, archived at Talk:Svend-Allan Sørensen. In any case, it's an unreferenced BLP and there is no indication of notability.''

I could find some articles on him (like and ) but finding reliable, fully independent sources showing he meets WP:GNG or WP:ARTIST was beyond me. Google Books shows some promising-looking results, but not being able to view them I have no opinion on whether to delete this or not. Sideways713 (talk) 14:10, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Maybe there are a few more sources than I thought? But most of those books are written by the artist in question, and the second of those articles is just a promo for an exhibition. Maybe we need someone who can speak Danish to look at the sources, since it doesn't look like there's going to be anything in English. The Danish Wikipedia by the way does not have an article on him. 117.201.186.165 (talk) 14:59, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Denmark-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:09, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:09, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:09, 30 December 2013 (UTC)


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


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 02:07, 6 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Article has been improved with references to reliable sources, so I withdraw my nomination. 117.203.231.131 (talk) 16:10, 9 January 2014 (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.