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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 soft delete‎. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗plicit 23:30, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ariel Schleicher

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Unfortunately, I'm not finding anything in a BEFORE search to substantiate the notability of this artist. It appears that this is an autobiography. None of the exhibitions are notable, and I cannot find evidence that their work is held in the permeant collections of notable museums or national galleries, so it's an WP:NARTIST fail. Also not finding that they meet WP:GNG as what is present in current sourcing and what was found in the BEFORE is mostly social media or primary sources such as interviews or user-submitted content. No significant reviews or articles in academic journals or art history books. It seems to be a case of WP:TOOSOON. Bringing it here for the community to decide. Netherzone (talk) 22:46, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Artists, Women, Visual arts, Czech Republic, and New York. Netherzone (talk) 22:46, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – A WP:BEFORE sweep surfaces nothing but the artist’s own site, commercial gallery/sales pages and a single puff-segment on WTSP’s Great Day Live—none of which constitute the “significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources” required by WP:GNG or the stricter WP:NARTIST. Pollia (talk) 20:23, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete‎. Hey man im josh (talk) 17:13, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hudson Franklin

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Recently prodded/deprodded stub article about a short-lived gallery in NYC. In a BEFORE search I was able to find some info about a few of the artists who exhibited at the gallery, but the only thing I could find on the gallery itself is the closure announcement on ArtInfo.[1] I think this is a press release and not actual reporting on the gallery itself as there is no by-line. I found nothing on the Wikipedia Library other than the review of Jamisen Ogg's show (which is about the artist's work not the gallery), and JSTOR turned up nothing. The single ArtInfo piece on the closure is not enough to meet WP:NCORP nor WP:GNG. Bringing it here for the community to decide. Netherzone (talk) 16:16, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Arts, Visual arts, Museums and libraries, Business, and New York. Netherzone (talk) 16:16, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: I was the one to prod it. I found a similar lack of information about the gallery as Netherzone. Moritoriko (talk) 14:29, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - notability is not inherent because they were in NYC or had one notable artist; see WP:NOTINHERITED. If they represented multiple notable artists, then that would be different. Bearian (talk) 22:59, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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