Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tseten Dorjee

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) –Davey2010^Talk 00:01, 17 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tseten Dorjee

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Still nothing at all actually suggestive of his own notability, PROD removed with the basis of 1 trivial local news article and thus I still confirm my PROD. SwisterTwister talk 16:26, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Not sufficient notability for a stand alone article. A local passing interest at this point. Kierzek (talk) 17:15, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:24, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:25, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Asia-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:25, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:29, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Naropa University is a major Buddhist studies program in the USA and thangka painting is a pretty rare art. This individual is a Tibetan refugee who has established himself in the Pacific Northwest. Found a reasonable amount of independent, third-party coverage, which is enough to pass GNG. Some independent coverage of him is here. Montanabw^(talk) 22:19, 2 August 2016 (UTC):[reply]
review of him and his work in the Spokesman-Review

coverage on his life and work in the Montana Standard (cited in article)

Buddhist channel reprint of additional coverage (cited in article)
- In addition, he now appears to also work for Students for a Free Tibet ([1]), per this. I might be looking at two people with the same name, but there is a bio of him here, I think the text is a wiki mirror -- but the photo matches the HuffPost, so I think it's the same individual. Searching with that criteria in mind, I also found these articles: [2], [3], [4].Striking as I think this may be a different individual with the same name. Either way, the painting bit alone is enough to meet GNG Montanabw ^(talk) 22:45, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As you surmised, the america.pink site is a license-violating mirror. They scrape images from other sources based on a simple keyword search, leading to some really nutty results. Kuru (talk) 00:27, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there is a real possibility that the guy who works for Students for a Free Tibet and the thangka artist are two different people. I'm familiar with the artist, as he got a lot of press when he was up here in Montana; it's why the article jumped out at me. I'll go see what I can find at Naropa or in Mandala magazine Montanabw ^(talk) 17:21, 4 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:26, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep – Upon consideration, meets WP:BASIC per the sources provided above by Montanabw and this source in the article: Independent Record. This can also be retained in the general interest of countering the potential for WP:SYSTEMIC bias on Wikipedia. Perhaps more Tibetan and Asian sources are available that others cannot access. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:43, 13 August 2016 (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.