Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Craig Stevens (photographer)

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The result was delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 05:18, 11 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Craig Stevens (photographer)[edit]

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Does not seem to meet WP:NOTABILITY guidelines. Prod removed last year as numerous Google hits, although unclear if all the same Craig Stevens (photographer), may need to be examined at AfD. Boleyn (talk) 09:36, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. No significant sources. Savannah College of Art and Design appears to be engaged in a PR campaign to promote its staff and itself on Wikipedia. All their articles and BLPs need to be looked at. Activities like this are sometimes engaged in by lower ranking institutions. They usually result in embarrassment and grief. Xxanthippe (talk) 01:54, 27 October 2013 (UTC).[reply]
Keep add new sources. Won an award, it's a new award but is significant from who the award is from, American Society of Media Photographers, as a lifetime achievement, and he was sole recipient. Has a piece in the museum of the Chicago Art Institute;[1] unable to verify the other collections. Solo exhibit in Savannah recently with news coverage;[2] considering his 25 year career, there are probably many more exhibits. Multiple sources for GNG purposes. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 19:54, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well done to find [2], but it's only a local paper. More would help. Xxanthippe (talk) 21:55, 27 October 2013 (UTC).[reply]

The link to the "Susan Carr Educator Prize" is misleading because that actually points to the American Society of Media Photographers article. It should be corrected to something like the "Susan Carr Educator Prize from the American Society of Media Photographers" or some such. With regard to weighing Stevens' notability, the actual significance of this award is debatable, because it was just founded this year and does not itself seem to be covered by secondary sources. Agricola44 (talk) 21:55, 28 October 2013 (UTC).[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 02:10, 3 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. As a new award, the "Susan Carr Educator Prize" has not yet had a chance to become significant (I can find very little documentation of it except for some websites), so I don't think this adds much to the notability argument. While it does appear that AIC owns one of his prints, their database indicates it is not on display, suggesting it is not one of their significant holdings. I did some further searching, but could not find any additional obvious WP:RS aside from the local Savannah newspaper source mentioned above. Cardamom's speculation about the existence of more sources or exhibits may be correct, but remains unconfirmed. I think we would really be straining to keep this, especially since it is a BLP. Agricola44 (talk) 16:05, 4 November 2013 (UTC).[reply]

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