Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Malcolm Levy

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The result was delete. Tone 09:26, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Malcolm Levy

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Non-notable artist. Does not meet WP:ARTIST or WP:GNG. A loose noose (talk) 20:29, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 20:41, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Photography-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 20:41, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete All I could find in a search was this Vancouver Sun article, which is an interview about his position as a festival director.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 05:33, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. (Author of article) Wow, that was fast. Below is an easily findable list of sources about the artist. More importantly, as I said in the talk page, I have written an entire chapter - WP:GNG - on the uniqueness - WP:ARTIST - of his work in a peer-reviewed book (in both hard- and softcover) published by Dartmouth College Press (University Press of New England) and distributed by University of Chicago. It will also appear in another book coming out with Open Humanities (and I've given interviews about it/him on both NPR and Bad At Sports). I'll admit that I am an inclusionist and want to put most of the artists I write about online, but I'd appreciate recognition of the aforementioned sources as notable and reliable (and probably enough)?

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/2013/09/05/the-proof-%E2%80%93-malcolm-levy/
https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/local-arts/q-a-new-forms-festival-executive-director-malcolm-levy
http://www.burrardarts.org/project/malcolm-levy/
http://blog.goethe.de/satellite/authors/3-Malcolm-Levyv
http://transfergallery.com/malcolm-levy/
https://www.straight.com/arts/505866/fuse-and-isea-disrupt-vancouver-art-gallery-multimedia-marvels
http://capturephotofest.com/artists/malcolm-levy/
https://technical.ly/brooklyn/2015/04/07/generate-app-adds-artful-complexity-mobile-image-manipulation/
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/curator-code-live-2010-olympics/2027
http://csaspace.blogspot.com/2014/10/malcolm-levy-rize.html
http://www.isea-archives.org/symposia/isea2014-2-2-2-2-3/
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137437204_3
https://thump.vice.com/en_ca/article/pg8jem/imprints-hybridity
https://books.google.ca/books?id=6IJZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=malcolm+levy&source=bl&ots=rf3Ie8F3tf&sig=aYx8--idurusKT3mT_4fQYCBmhI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigosi8q6zcAhXkIzQIHRpADyw4RhDoAQhLMAg#v=onepage&q=malcolm%20levy&f=false

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybridity_Music
https://tomboloartmedia.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/curator-malcolm-levy-builds-bridges-through-code-lives-new-media-art/
http://www.michelleobrien.net/2013/01/illuminations/
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/vancouver-sun/20100909/283472137563776
http://bluedogmedia.ca/project/the-road-to-shambhala/
https://artdailyvancouver.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/saw-it-the-rize-malcolm-levy-curated-by-steven-tong-csa-space-oct-9/
http://www.mutek.org/es/video/243-digitalis-6-babe-rainbow
http://arasozgun.net/Malcolm_Levy_Other-Frames.pdf
http://nathanielstern.com/text/2015/other-frames-malcolm-levy-and-sensing-images/
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Nathaniels (talk • contribs) 16:58, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. I've had a look at a few of these sources, and I understand you believe he is notable. Let's take the Burrardarts link: it takes the reader to a page from the Burrand Arts Foundation. This kind of source is not independent from the article's subject: the Foundation has a vested interest in promoting the artists it features, and that makes it difficult to consider it to be a suitable source here. The Bluedogmedia link doesn't even mention the subject's name— it tells me about an upcoming film. The michelleobrien.net link is to a wedding announcement for which the article's subject will be doing an installation. One of the links is to another Wikipedia article, which is never a suitable source of evidence of notability. None of the blogs or wordpress articles/ links are likely to count as reliable publications. etc., etc. What we need in order to retain this article are multiple examples of where he has been discussed in newspapers, magazines, and/ or books (or MAYBE some internet sources, though these are often less convincing for establishing notability). We need not mere mentions of his name, but rather he needs to be the subject of some extended text of some kind. The NPR thing you mentioned might be enough— can you provide a source for it? Can you add that source into the article in an appropriate place? A loose noose (talk) 20:22, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The sources listed above are almost all not suitable WP:RS for a WP BLP (not even close). Even the lower-tier Canadian sources like the Vancouver Sun article mentions him because he was the Director of an arts festival. There is no single (never mind several) significant piece on him from a material Canadian RS (never mind non-Canadian). That is a clear fail of WP:GNG; not even borderline. Article is bio-spam, and a strong case for WP:A7. Britishfinance (talk) 13:05, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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