Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iain Faulkner

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The result was delete. Tone 20:06, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Iain Faulkner[edit]

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This article (recently created by a new account that I suspect has COI issues) is currently very short, because most of the content was COPYVIO and has been revdelled. The sources don't establish notability - Montgomerie's autobiography just gives a passing mention, and the Albemarle Gallery is selling his work and so promotional and not independent. The short biography on the National Galleries of Scotland website goes some way to establishing notability, but I couldn't find any other mentions in independent sources - just a lot of profiles on the websites of galleries selling his work (promotional and not independent), and a profile on the Scottish Art Connect website (WP:UGC and WP:SPS - you can create your own profile once you've exhibited in three galleries). I can't find any independent biographies, or reviews of his work in newspapers or on Google books, so I think he fails WP:GNG. He does have a picture in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, but WP:NARTIST calls for works in several such galleries, and so he fails that too unless anyone can dig out some more sources or a list of notable galleries that feature his work in their permanent collections. GirthSummit _(blether) 18:53, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. GirthSummit _(blether) 18:53, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions. GirthSummit _(blether) 18:53, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Scotland-related deletion discussions. GirthSummit _(blether) 18:53, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment being in the Scottish National Art Gallery collection is a very good of notability. But, as the nom says, there is scant coverage elsewhere.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 19:14, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I agree with that - that's really what prompted me to do a thorough search, since I thought he might be displayed in other notable galleries (WP:NARTIST calls for several notable galleries to display their work, which I interpret as a minimum of three), but I can't find anything else at all. If I'm honest, I suspect his presence in the National Portrait Gallery (rather than the National Gallery itself) is more to do with the subject of the painting - Colin Montgomerie - than the artist. They have a large collection of paintings of famous people; the artists who created them are not always notable themselves. GirthSummit _(blether) 19:32, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. BTW, several for WP:ARTIST is intentionally vague. Might be two, might be three. See the discussion at the top of this page. In any case, we do not have several here.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 19:42, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ah - OK, I hadn't realised that. That should be clarified really, I just checked a few dictionaries and while some allow for several to mean 'more than one', most definitions seem to agree that it is 'more than two, but not many', which is how I understood that wording. Cheers GirthSummit _(blether) 19:50, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete nothing here shows he meets the notability guidelines for artists.John Pack Lambert (talk) 06:23, 6 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete WP:TOOSOON, I think. As far as reviews go, I can only find one or two sentences about an exhibition of his in London. We need more than one public gallery holding his works (private collections like banks don't count), or winning prizes. That may come, but for now, delete. RebeccaGreen (talk) 07:51, 6 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Per RebeccaGreen above, plus needs more than just the Scottish National Art Gallery exposure. Other relevant gallery coverage appears to be Albemarle Gallery (now combined with Pontone Gallery) which seems to be largely promotional coverage. --Cactus.man ✍ 10:53, 6 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom.Forest90 (talk) 12:19, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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