Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nils Ohlsen

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The result was keep. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:37, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nils Ohlsen[edit]

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This page does not meet the notability guidelines for biographies, and does not cite any reliable references for its information. My online searches have revealed no new sources or information that would resolve these issues. Alanna the Brave (talk) 23:05, 14 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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~~Weak Delete~~ I tried to tackle this as I felt he must be notable, but I can't uncover sources that cover him with more than a passing mention. There's a lot of "noise" around the Munch exhibit of which he was co curator, but no depth. StarM 01:00, 17 May 2017 (UTC) Change to keep per DDG's confirmation re: pubs and WP: Prof. I'll try to find some sources to solve the BLPProd issue Mduvekot. StarM 01:13, 6 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, f e minist 10:40, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design. Quite a few GNews hits actually but like Star Mississippi I cannot find anything more deep than passing coverage. However, he is the director of a clearly notable museum and his name might be a plausible search term, so I propose redirecting there per WP:ATD-R. Regards So Why 08:38, 2 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Question is he a director or a curator? Major language issues as Karl_Twist (talk · contribs) noted below, but this is perhaps the most confounding. The list of directors in the museum's article doesn't include him and it seems in some of what I found that he might be a curator. I'm also pinging DGG (talk · contribs) who knows the professor side well and may be able to help with some of that. All that said, redirect also makes sense StarM 01:32, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, he has made a lot of contributions to various publications as well been referenced often. Doesn't help that much of what's useful is in German. The problem here is that the page needs to be referenced properly as well as tidied up. Karl Twist (talk) 11:47, 2 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Exemplo347 (talk) 19:33, 2 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Senior curator and scholar. The publications clearly meet WP:PROF. It's absurd that this was even challenged. DGG ( talk ) 02:10, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This is still a biography of a living person without any references, and as such it remains eligible for deletion per WP:BLPPROD. The simple solution would be to just add references to independent, reliable sources. Can someone do that please? ~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mduvekot (talk • contribs) 04:26, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done with artnet. Going to try and find a German speaking member of WP:Museums. StarM 01:25, 6 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The artnet ref has the same content as a webpage of the Neue Galerie. Not a WP:IS Mduvekot (talk) 02:06, 6 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I found this though. That's from the dpa, the Deutsche Presse-Agentur, which is a solid source. Mduvekot (talk) 02:13, 6 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

And this and this. But even with those sources I still can't figure out what his title is. Curator is not wrong, so perhaps go with that. Mduvekot (talk) 02:22, 6 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Director has too many meanings in English, let alone when someone is trying to write this in the context of translating German and Norwegian museum duties to an English speaking audience. I think that Director may be akin to a senior curatorial role, but not director as in Executive and/or member of the museum's board of directors. Thanks for catch re: artnet, hadn't noticed that it was likely a reprint of a press release. WorldCat has some of his books so we can verify their existence, but nothing of note in them. StarM

The dpa source mentions him taking the job. The taz one is a portrait of him (weird that I didn't find it) as the new curator of the part of the national gallery that contains art from the romanticism to 1950. The third ref mentions him only in passing in the context of a Munch exhibit. Regards So Why 10:55, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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