Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/U Dae-keong

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was DELETE. — JIP | Talk 08:13, 9 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

U Dae-keong

nn bio. 202.156.6.60 08:43, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, doesn't currently assert notability. Thue | talk 09:07, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- No vote; with the addition to the article of his exhibition in Germany it isn't so clear he is non-notable, and I don't feel competent in pottery to judge. Thue | talk 11:02, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Retain: He is a regionally shown artist.

I have since discovered that he was shown in Europe as well (see entry). (Kdammers: I don't know why four tildes don't record my name regardless of where I place them:Kdammers 12:46, 2 October 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Delete or Speedy under A7. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 12:33, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, regionally shown artist. Kappa 12:57, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete nn. Dottore So 18:52, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Article does not make any assertion of notability. Denni ☯ 02:38, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. per Thue and Denni. Gamaliel 03:50, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Being a native Korean myself, I tried to search his alleged name "우대겅" (which is a very unusual name in local standard, by the way) in a widely-used korean search engine www.naver.com, and I got zero result. I tried Yahoo Korea and again, zero. Google Korea, zero. I am beginning to suspect his name has been wrongly typed in or he is utterly non-notable. --BorgQueen 22:41, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

First, thank You for calling attention to my spelling error. The name should be 우 대갱 / Thus U Dae-Kyeong. I have moved the article. Second, a negative search of the Internet is hardly adequate basis for non-notability - especially in creative, noncommercial areas. If You live in Korea, You could call the Nonsan Culture and Arts Center at 041-734-0815, since they just had a showing of U's works, and ask them about his notability. Third, where is notability (i.e., that it is relevant and what constitutes it) discussed: I searched http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy and the word is not used.

Fourth, invitational international showing would seem to me to be at least prima facie evidence of notability in the visual arts. Kdammers 03:26, 5 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.