Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/World (sculpture)


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The result was merge to Broadcasting House. North America1000 22:55, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

World (sculpture)

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Article about a public artwork in the piazza of the BBC's head office, which fails to show the depth of reliable source coverage needed to get it over WP:GNG. Of the three sources here, two are produced by the BBC itself (and thus constitute primary sources in this context, since by definition they're not independent of an artwork they commissioned for their own office building) and the third is a glancing namecheck of its existence in an article that is in no way substantively about it. It would be perfectly acceptable for this to be mentioned in Broadcasting House, but there's no evidence being shown here that it has anything approaching the depth of reliable source coverage needed to qualify for a standalone article separately from that. Bearcat (talk) 23:09, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
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 * Comment, here are a couple of sources: Telegraph - BBC unveils £1.6million pavement, Melbourne Art Netwok - Invasion or integration? Public art in urban spaces, "Case studies, including BBC Broadcasting House", but more is needed. Coolabahapple (talk) 01:10, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Merge to Broadcasting House. The sculpture is considered as part of the building's refit by most sources, rather than as an independent work. --Colapeninsula (talk) 15:28, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 02:52, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete/Merge The building is notable. As an artistic installation, this isn't.  It should be part of the building's page, not its own article.   Power~enwiki (talk) 02:23, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Move to draft space. This isn't at the top of my 'to do list', but it'd be nice not to delete this content and I can try to get around to expanding later. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 04:19, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge into Broadcasting House. Sorry for my delay in getting to this. Of all the independent reliable sources I've found so far, including ones from the Guardian, the Observer and University College London (and discounting five from the Mail on HighBeam per this decision), only the Telegraph article found by Coolabahapple discusses the work for more than one paragraph, and at six brief paragraphs I don't think it's very in-depth. So I'm struggling to find significant independent coverage.
 * If the notability of this work is in question, though, it should be considered alongside Jaume Plensa's Breathing, also commissioned for the Broadcasting House extension and also with its own article. (The Guardian piece linked above notes that World was the more expensive work of the two, so by that very crude measure World is more notable than Breathing.) Ham II (talk) 15:04, 10 May 2017 (UTC)


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