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Stone Malone Gallery (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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This short-lived former gallery does not meet notability criteria for WP:NCORP nor WP:GNG. The sources consist of a short PR blurb; a bio of the owner on Widewalls which is user-submitted content; a press release from PRweb about an artist's show not the gallery itself; a paid advertisement in the LA Times; a PR blurb in a local paper; a few reviews of artist's show in HuffPo & InstallationMag & AmadeusMag that just name-checks the gallery; and the gallery's own website announcing the closure. An online BEFORE search only finds social media. Bringing it here for the community to decide. Netherzone (talk) 17:46, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Arts, Visual arts, Photography, Business, and California. Netherzone (talk) 17:46, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Museums and libraries-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 18:03, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I would humbly suggest that while short-lived, the gallery in question was indeed notable in that it introduced many artists who have gained more mainstream success. It was the first place in Los Angeles to give any street artists a solo exhibition. Before Stone Malone Gallery, street artists had only exhibited in groups. It was an underground scene, which would explain the lack of mainstream coverage, but it was a scene that attracted quite a bit of notoriety and a high-profile celebrity clientele...which -- when documented at all -- is typically only documented in social media. KCAL News called it one of the "Top Art Galleries In Hollywood" and included it in a list of the "10 Best Art Galleries In West Hollywood" (which was deleted as "duplicate citation" but there were actually two separate articles). Elvissinatra (talk) 22:32, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Benedetta Bonichi (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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The artist does not meet notability criteria per WP:GNG nor WP:NARTIST, as a teacher they do not meet WP:ACADEMIC. The sources consist of blogs (Weird Fiction, and Trend Hunter), press releases or primary sources with a simple name check. None of these are reliable sources that provide significant coverage. An online BEFORE did not find anything of value, just social media posts and eBay. Netherzone (talk) 15:01, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Ahmed Mater (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Mostly a violation of WP:NOPROMO and questionable whether WP:SUSTAINED notability is backed up with WP:RS. Amigao (talk) 21:32, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Artists, Photography, and Saudi Arabia. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 22:30, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - this is a situation where it looks like COI or possible UPE has created a highly promotional article on a notable artist. They meet criteria #4 of WP:NARTIST based on the museum collections they are in. However, he is not actually in all of the collections that are in the article, but enough, at least I think, to establish notability. Other collection references simply point to a bio or a press release about a show, and not to the actual collection source with the acquisition information and data. So it seems there is promo-puffery going on. I'm thinking that this may very well be a case where either a strong pruning back to a stub is necessary or a WP:TNT d*eletion would be in order. I'd like to hear from others in the visual arts to discuss before logging an !vote. Netherzone (talk) 23:47, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Netherzone I have sorted through the collection claims. Please see Talk:Ahmed Mater#draft for collections section. No doubt the artist is notable. The article needs pruning. Hope to get back to it later this week. I did mark the some of the primary sources as "better source needed". More to do there too. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:20, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment oh, this is a mess...embedded links and conflation of exhibitions and collections. I think it can be pruned into an acceptable article, but need to return to it later in the week. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:46, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I started to do a little pruning. It may be useful to trim back to a short article or stub to get to the heart of the key biographic and career events. There is a lot of fluff, puffery and original research/synthesis that is not supported by RS. But I think it can be saved. Netherzone (talk) 02:25, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 01:29, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and clean up. He meets WP:NARTIST. Netherzone (talk) 02:37, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and clean up. Does appear to meet WP:NARTIST. I'm willing to help out with the clean up as well. Se7enNationArmy2024 (talk) 16:02, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The artist is notable and the fluff has been removed. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 20:59, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Netherzone and Se7enNationArmy2024 please take a look at the career section to see if it should be renamed or edited. Thanks. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 20:59, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Thanks for the ping. When I find the time in the next few days, I'll go thru the career section to check the text against the sources themselves (because I found quite a lot of OR and puffery that wasn't in the association source at all). Let me know if you have already done so, @WomenArtistUpdates for that section, and if not I'll tackle that. Netherzone (talk) 21:15, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Netherzone, Yes please review career section against sources if you can. It does have a tinge of malarkey to it. I ran out of gas after the exhibitions and collections review. Thanks! --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 23:14, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• It look so much cleaner now after what you've done! I am leaning towards changing the section name slightly to reflect that it is his art career as opposed to being generalized as it is currently. He's described several times in sources as physician-turned-artist so creating that distinction in the section title would provide added clarity. Se7enNationArmy2024 (talk) 22:00, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  My apologies. I forgot to include a ping. @WomenArtistUpdates. Se7enNationArmy2024 (talk) 22:30, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

HorlarofLagos (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Subject utterly fails WP:GNG or WP:ANYBIO. There are insufficient sources to establish notability of any sort. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 14:26, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete – Per nom. Svartner (talk) 19:12, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:TNT. Written by AI, or an overly enthusiastic fan or PR person, or all of the above. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Nigeria/Nigerian source‪s.‬ Bearian (talk) 08:18, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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