Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Virginia Claflin Pratt


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The result was   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 04:46, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Virginia Claflin Pratt

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As I've been able to research so far, I don't see how she'd pass notability. The only question is whether there's more information in the Who Was Who in American Art that might shed light on notability. I have posted a note on the Talk:Virginia Claflin Pratt page about a discrepancy with information in the main article source.  CaroleHenson  ( talk ) 04:01, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
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 * Blow it up and start over - The main source for the article, AskArt, is not a reliable source, but rather a website that gathers its biographical information "from a broad range of contributors". The contributor of the information on Pratt at AskArt is the subject's granddaughter, which means that the source is non-independent as well. Another source, The Cascadia Courier, is a self-published source. --Hirolovesswords (talk) 05:23, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment This vote seems to infer that there are reliable sources to be used instead of the sources in the article. Unfortunately, this was the best that I could find. If the sources mentioned are removed, the only current citation that seems would remain is info about one work of art at Seattle Art Museum, and there would be no biographical information. There's potentially info from Who's who and that's it, but I have no idea how much.


 * Are there other sources, though, that I missed to "Start over"?-- CaroleHenson  ( talk ) 17:10, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete per WP:BIO1E (the one thing being her piece in the Seattle Art Museum). It's noteworthy but it's not enough by itself to form the basis of an article, and also not enough by itself to meet WP:ARTIST #4(d), the notability criterion she seems most close to meeting. —David Eppstein (talk) 03:54, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
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