Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Henrik Purienne

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) buff bills 7701 00:21, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Henrik Purienne[edit]

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unsourced (or self-sourced) self-written bio of a non-notable guy. damiens.rf 19:06, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Promotional article. Awards are all unsourced, seem to be branch internal ones.--Ben Ben (talk) 12:28, 3 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep WP:author The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory or technique.

In this case:

Creation of a signature photography style
Creation of a global fashion and culture magazine
First monograph published by Randomhouse/Prestel — Preceding unsigned comment added by Silverhaze01 (talk • contribs) 23:53, 8 January 2014 (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) 19:57, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Prestel is a major publisher (or more precisely a major brand of a huge publishing conglomerate). One of its specialties is photography; here's the list. Even if you want to say that the list isn't very adventurous, you have to concede that it contains some solid stuff. One of the titles is Purienne. Here it is. On the front cover are (i) a girl in a swimsuit (wow! but of course we in AfD are far too serious to linger on that); and (ii) the one word Purienne written in big bold letters. These aren't girls who happened to be photographed by Purienne; instead, this is marketed as a Purienne product (of girls). Hier it is at amazon.de. And although the following factors are strictly speaking irrelevant here, you may also notice that (i) the list price is €40, (ii) it's been out for months, (iii) the world's favorite monopolist doesn't feel a need to discount it; (iv) plenty of used and other new copies are advertised there but none is all that cheaper than list. This all adds up to notability. And the article is, in its current form, non-promotional, and sourced not immaculately but rather better than average for an en-WP article. - Hoary (talk) 13:01, 15 January 2014 (UTC) touched up 13:46, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. It's hard to see the wood for the trees with this guy because so many youth publications want to associate themselves with such porn, re-blogging it in order to bask in the glory by association. However, outside of (mere) commercial assignments, (1) he has a book from an unrelated publisher; (2) he has had an exhibition by an unrelated gallery; (3) his style is considered by some to be noteworthy; (4) he is involved in producing a substantial magazine; (5) Hoary gives us a very clear persuasive argument about the nature of Purienne's book. -Lopifalko (talk)
Keep per above. DavidLeighEllis (talk) 00:41, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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