Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Newtown area graffiti and street art

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 in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 17:33, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Newtown area graffiti and street art[edit]

Article appears to consist entirely of original research ~~(not to mention copyvios, though there's always some confusion of the copyright status of graffiti at IFD)~~.Take that back, there is freedom of panorama in Australia. I can't find any sources suggesting that this particular graffiti is notable. Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:41, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. —Grahame (talk) 02:15, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletions. – David Eppstein (talk) 04:29, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, I seem to remember that some people tried to have this article deleted once before, yet I can't see a link to a previous AfD on the article talk page.--Lester 12:12, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- You may be thinking of this [1] Melburnian (talk) 12:26, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - Ah, thanks, Melbournian. That must have been where I saw this article come up before.--Lester 13:28, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - although I brought this to AWNB originally, I have changed my mind about deleting it. Some (and I stress some, not all) of this "art" is iconic in Sydney - especially the Martin Luther King mural and the Three Proud People mural. There are definitely books on the subject. It is not all going to be original research. Let's allow the user to keep the article and improve on it. It does have some references which can't be said for a lot of articles. JRG (talk) 05:36, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - the murals that User:JRG cites (above) have both been the subject of multiple Sydney Morning Herald articles, such as this and this(scroll down to 2nd story, 'Well Hidden Mural'). There are more if requested. The author should add some of these references to the article. Also, I would consider a change of article name, to put the word 'mural' in there.--Lester 06:04, 2 September 2008 (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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.