Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William J. Simmons (art historian)


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The result was delete. Sarahj2107 (talk) 09:20, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

William J. Simmons (art historian)

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Non notable Ph.D. candidate Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 03:13, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete As per nominator. No indication of notability. Peter Rehse (talk) 10:16, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete Another case of WP:TOOSOON. Joe Roe (talk) 18:56, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:PROF. He's still working on his PhD and has written some articles plus one book. In other words, an academic. His only real claim to notability is a so-called "landmark" exhibition that he curated. However, there are no references to back up that claim and as the exhibition was in 2015 it is likely too soon to judge it as a landmark. freshacconci talk to me  18:58, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete, WP:TOOSOON, no indication of passing WP:PROF or WP:GNG. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:40, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as promotional dreck. The subject fails NARTIST, PROF, and GNG. This article should be written 30 years hence at the end of his career, not at the beginning. Wikipedia is a trailing indicator of past SIGCOV, not a leading indicator of "aspiring personalities." Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 20:36, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment This sounds like a personal ideological agenda quite separate from this entry.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Artnerd238 (talk • contribs) 05:46, 12 December 2016 (UTC)  — Artnerd238 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.


 * Do Not Delete Notable interviewer and curator. No indication of self-promotion. Please remove tag — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erw778 (talk • contribs) 22:30, 11 December 2016 (UTC)  — Erw778 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Comment Whatever the merits of his accomplishments so far, independent, reliable sources exist. I have added a few. Mduvekot (talk) 22:35, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
 * You added links to things he has written, not things written about him. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 22:45, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I added lamag, artnews and interviewmagazine Not one of those was written by Simmons.Mduvekot (talk) 02:12, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
 * The first two are articles about an exhibition he was involved in that only contain trivial mentions of Simmons himself, the third is an interview which are primary sources and not usually counted towards notability. I'm still not seeing any evidence of see WP:SIGCOV. Joe Roe (talk) 13:21, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment Mduvekot added an interview with Interview Magazine that is about his work — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erw778 (talk • contribs) 23:01, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep This is an interview with him about his work. Bus stop (talk) 02:10, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete He is a PhD candidate, way below the notability threshold.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:42, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. Far WP:Too soon. Xxanthippe (talk) 04:15, 13 December 2016 (UTC).
 * Delete After making an effort to locate sources that would support his notability as a writer, curator or art historian, I find that the subject fails WP:GNG and any other subject-specific guideline, such as WP:AUTHOR Mduvekot (talk) 03:35, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Before I could vote to keep, I would want to see his age. It is known for people to do a PhD at the end of a long and distinguished career.  However, he4 appears to have curated one exhibition and written articles for a long list of NN publications, at least I assume they are NN as only one has a WP article.  TOOSOON.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:50, 18 December 2016 (UTC)


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