Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Walsingham

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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 18:35, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

John Walsingham[edit]

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This popped up in my watchlist and I noticed I'd attempted to PROD it 5 years ago and this was rejected for no apparent good reason. Article hasn't been improved since. Article strikes me as unsourced 'art waffle' and the one source refers to an exhibition he "hosted" in the early 2000s. The 'Literature' is probably the catalogue for the exhibition. It's bizarre I can't find anything at all about this artist online, particularly because his surname is not particularly common. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NARTIST. Time for it to go. Sionk (talk) 18:27, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. Sionk (talk) 18:27, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 18:33, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I went back and looked at your PROD, and it looks like it was removed by an administrator. Frankly, I have no idea why it was removed; the article is a largely unreferenced biography about a non-notable artist created by a single-purpose account. While I have no idea what their rationale was (they simply state: "needs further ck for refs. It's his work, not his life that would be notable"), it's probably for the best that they're included in the discussion: @DGG:. I couldn't find a single reference to this artist outside of the one website that's already in the article, and the one that's already referenced is a brief overview of the subject's life on some seemingly random website from an unknown author citing no sources. Furthermore, I couldn't even find material on 'Personal Expressionism' outside of the aforementioned article, which doesn't even describe what it is.
Delete per above. I note that the only ref, in German, calls him a book illustrator, but there is nothing about this in the article. Could be a hoax. The creator's only 5 edits were setting this up. Google books find only the Tudor squire etc. Johnbod (talk) 21:33, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I cannot find anything at all about this person, let alone as an artist.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 22:40, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 03:34, 29 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete This is a hoax. Vexations (talk) 12:37, 29 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: My attempts with various searches have not found anything further than the Literaturmarkt item which is the sole accessible reference (and from which much of the article text seems to be an expanded replay). I don't see that as sufficiently strong to sustain an article as verifiable, adding to which much of the article is WP:POV. Even if we accept that the subject's work was indeed exhibited at some point in the Frankfurt Goethe-Akademie, that would not be enough to demonstrate WP:ARTIST notability on its own. AllyD (talk) 16:33, 29 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The lack of any obvious coverage of the subject of this article, other than the one source identified, would suggest that assuming that even if this article is factually accurate, and I think the points raised above cast doubt on this, then notability is not met. Dunarc (talk) 18:58, 2 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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