Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chad Knight (3rd nomination)

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. L Faraone 09:08, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Chad Knight

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Not represented in a museum collection, no monographs, no reviews of exhibitions. His claim to fame is apparently a viral video purportedly showing a kinetic water sculpture. Vexations (talk) 15:15, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions. Vexations (talk) 15:15, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 16:27, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Oregon-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 16:27, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Request: Should the previous AfD discussions be listed on the article's Talk page? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:48, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Only the first one. The second AfD was about a different person who goes by the same name. (And I, personally, would put off listing the first AfD on the talk page until we see whether this article gets kept. If this AfD concludes as "delete", then the talk page will be gone too.) --Metropolitan90 (talk) 17:24, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: The rationale for deletion seems to be vaguely gesturing at point #4 of WP:ARTIST, or perhaps the failed proposal for artists. There are three other points there (as well as WP:BASIC), and I believe he passes #3: his work being the subject of independent periodical articles. In addition to the pieces already mentioned, I found some more coverage of his sculpture series:
- Profile/writeup in Vice: https://www.vice.com/en/article/bmya9m/chad-knight-digital-art
- Profile in Infringe Magazine (part of this is an interview, but the bulk of the piece is editorial): https://www.infringe.com/chad-knight/

I would also not be surprised if there was coverage of him as a skateboarder from the '90s, but so far I haven't found any, just suggestions that he was a figure known enough for there to be some elsewhere. Gnomingstuff (talk) 23:15, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:21, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:28, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I'm also finding additional coverage. Including the indication of a longer article on his skateboarding career. And another specialized source on his digital art. As for more recent stuff, he seems to have been getting more recent coverage over his involvement in NFT nonsense with his art. Silver seren^C 03:46, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
~~Keep - Looks a well-known and notable figure. We can find a lot of coverage. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IamJayYas (talk • contribs) 11:38, 7 November 2021 (UTC)~~ Striking sock !vote Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 22:16, 9 November 2021 (UTC) [reply]
Keep As a primarily digital artist, the absence of exhibitions of collections is not unexpected and similarly not unexpected is a lack of monographs or other academic writing. The sources already present in the article, however, demonstrate WP:GNG coverage, which trumps any lack of SNG compliance. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 22:24, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
That may seem plausible, but it's not true: Artists who work primarily digitally do exhibit, and their work is in museum collections. And articles about them get nominated for deletion. See Maurice Benayoun and Rafaël Rozendaal for example. Vexations (talk) 14:08, 10 November 2021 (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.