Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ararat Aleksanyan

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 delete‎. ✗plicit 23:40, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ararat Aleksanyan

[Hide this box] New to Articles for deletion (AfD)? Read these primers!

(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

Not meeting GNG and uses flowery language. The art was gaining critical notice, yet we have no (and I can't find) sources that discuss it, other than sales sites. Oaktree b (talk) 18:49, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Artists and Visual arts. Oaktree b (talk) 18:49, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: was moved to draftspace (Draft:Ararat Aleksanyan) but has been copied and pasted to mainspace greyzxq ^talk 18:52, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think there are references to the exhibitions, the language that used may be improved. There are so many articles on Wikipedia, that are only 2-3 sentences, and not marked for deletion, I don't thinnk the work that I done should be evoluated like you did it. I don't agree with you, sorry Noobsaiboth (talk) 18:53, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Armenia-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:14, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete looks like a COI to boot given the page creator's reaction BoomboxTestarossa (talk) 19:44, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

•Comment - In an online BEFORE search I found nothing to confer notability in the English language. When I searched his name in Armenian, Արարատ Ալեքսանյան, I found one short news story in the Armenian Times about the car-motorcycle crash in which he was tragically killed by a drunk driver.[1]. There were few items in Armenian that look like user-submitted content like this: [2]; and social media postings and his accounts. I'm leaning towards d*lete, but will continue to see if any SIGCOV can be found. The article seems like a memorial page containing a lot of unsourced detailed information so if there is COI involved it may be a friend or family member with a misunderstanding of the purpose of the encyclopedia. (Forgive me if that seems harsh.) If he actually was notable, one would think the art press would publish an obituary. Will keep looking before formally !voting. Netherzone (talk) 20:14, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, a notable artist in his home country of Armenia, and per added sources. Randy Kryn (talk) 23:46, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Randy Kryn, What/where are the added sources you mention? I'd like to have a look at them (English, Armenian or another language is good by me!) Netherzone (talk) 00:36, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Was speaking of the May 5 additions, some in Armenian. I didn't look at the age of the page. I've done some edits for encyclopedic language on the page and removed some of the flowery language mentioned in the nomination. Randy Kryn (talk) 00:40, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I am not finding any reliable sources for the biographical information (birth and death date etc.) nor am I finding any sources for the "Life and work" section. Let the author deal with this in the draft version of this article (Draft:Ararat Aleksanyan). It looks like the editor created in draft space, then incorrectly moved to main space. No signs that any experienced editors were involved with this article written by an SPA. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:30, 19 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I tried in earnest to find significant coverage in reliable sources on this artist, in both English and Armenian. Unfortunately I could find nothing in addition to the four sources currently in the article. A source analysis revealed that all four are low quality sources: 1) a short segment on him in a YouTube video on a local TV station titled "Well I'm not successful either!", among other artists in a group show; 2) A press release from for a show on a person's blog; 3) short segment in a YouTube video on a local channel featuring several artists in a group show 4) a short description on a local tourism website of a gallery he apparently showed in that does not mention him at all. It seems that the two video sources were used on Solo shows however it seems they were actually group shows. None of these sources support notability criteria to pass WP:GNG nor WP:NARTIST. The only other things I found in a BEFORE search were social media and user submitted content. Netherzone (talk) 01:26, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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.