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Artists

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Viraj Khanna

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AfDs for this article:
Viraj Khanna (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:CREATIVE. The references provided are mostly WP:RSNOI, WP:ROUTINE. Agent 007 (talk) 19:27, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rubén Ochoa

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Rubén Ochoa (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:NARTIST and GNG. This 2009 article was created by a user listed as Rubenochoa. It is not surmising to consider that the subject is connected to the article. A subject creating their own (personal) international encyclopedia profile is "frowned upon" by normal practices for a reason. There are COI and neutrality concerns. This was mentioned on 10 January 2009. Concerns become more evident when the content mentions things like "international recognition", which is not supported by BLP "sources". It is even more concerning when a person appears to have less than (or even approaching) bare notability and the article is presented as a resume and pseudo biography. There is no common biographical content at all, let alone supported by reliable and independent sources. Note: While my search engine could present location bias, I could not find any mention on any important artist or international list like "Twenty Iberoamerican artists", "Artists you should know", Artists from Latin America or even List of Latin American artists. Otr500 (talk) 09:15, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete - This Rubén Ochoa, (born in Mexico, not the Ruben Ochoa born in California) does not meet notability per WP:GNG nor WP:NARTIST. The sourcing in the article consists of his website, an unverifiable publication, and a self-published book by Lulu (vanity press). An online BEFORE search for sigcov in independent reliable sources failed to find the kind of sourcing needed to establish notability. Note that these online sources need to be thoroughly examined because it is easy to confuse the two Ruben Ochoas. Netherzone (talk) 02:28, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Manish Kumar Gond

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Manish Kumar Gond (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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The sources cited are mostly local news articles, press releases, or routine coverage of art exhibitions, and do not provide significant independent coverage. There is no evidence of in-depth analysis or recognition in reliable, independent secondary sources. Thilsebatti (talk) 04:01, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Recourses mentioned in the article are covered in national media including DainikBhaskar and other one is on the official site of President of india. I do believe that the said resources provides a proof of recognition. Alwaysakashart (talk) 09:22, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - The sources are of low quality fluff, and not the kind we usually would find for a notable artist, such as reviews, chapters in art history books or academic journals. Nor are there works held in notable museum collections. What the sourcing consists of is his faculty page as an assistant professor, three press releases that seem to all be based off the same release, his page on his commercial gallery's website, press release "ID #2009492" about meeting a famous person, and a puff piece with the byline "Art Gold Life" in a "magazine" that publishes user-submitted content, which seems to be native advertising. No indication that this artist meet WP:GNG nor WP:NARTIST. Netherzone (talk) 15:31, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guy Geier

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non-notable, fails WP:GNG Polygnotus (talk) 22:54, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Source assessment table
Source Independent? Reliable? Significant coverage? Count source toward GNG?
No ~ No interview on "Featured member" area ✘ No
No No No press release ✘ No
No No No quote from Geier at the end of a promotional piece about new SAP headquarters ✘ No
No No No article about the new headquarters for the Audubon Society in NYC. No mention of Geier ✘ No
No No ~ brief promotional biography for TEDxTimesSquare ✘ No
This table may not be a final or consensus view; it may summarize developing consensus, or reflect assessments of a single editor. Created using {{source assess table}}.

Philip Krejcarek

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Philip Krejcarek (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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No evidence of satisfying the notability guidelines. (Created & re-created by the person the article is about; deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Philip Krejcarek. The new version has even less evidence of notability than the deleted version, but it is not similar enough to justify a G4 deletion.) JBW (talk) 18:58, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep Philip Krejcarek satisfies WP:GNG for artists. He has exhibited in institutional venues like the Lynden Sculpture Garden, whose exhibition catalogue details his conceptual photography and sculpture work. His work is in the permanent collections of major museums (Milwaukee Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, etc.) and the Waukesha Public Library. He’s authored instructional photography texts published by a major educational press, and his awards include nationally competitive scholarships and grants. These sources are independent and establish his notability in the art world. I’ve updated the article with citations and can provide further improvements if needed.Sweetabena (talk) 03:30, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    The sources you added for the claims of being in the permanent collections of these museums do not actually mention these museums at all. Google Scholar cannot find any hits for "Milwaukee Art Musem" "Krejcarek". And some of the other sources that you added are tagged as being generated by an LLM. Are those claims even true? Did you check them yourself or did you believe that an AI hallucination was valid? —David Eppstein (talk) 04:06, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete First of all, anything generated by an LLM should be expunged from article space, since machines that spew out statistically plausible strings of words are the opposite of trustworthy. ChatGPT is the anti-encyclopedia, and we should show zero tolerance to it. LLM implies TNT. Second, there isn't enough reliable, independent sourcing (either in the article or elsewhere) to make a case for notability, so there's no point in trying to write a replacement. He has written books, for example, but we'd need multiple published reviews to make a case that he meets our standard for notable authors. Stepwise Continuous Dysfunction (talk) 07:10, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Just to note, I’m not the original creator of this article. I only made some good-faith edits to improve its structure and sourcing. I wasn’t trying to restore previously deleted content or push a specific outcome. I appreciate the concerns raised and trust the community to reach a fair consensus. If anything I added fell short of expectations, feel free to revise or remove as needed.Sweetabena (talk) 08:24, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Can you please respond to the specific questions above re AI use rather than merely praising yourself with bland platitudes? —David Eppstein (talk) 16:48, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note: Not a single one of the references currently in the article is an independent source. There's a book by Philip Krejcarek himself, a page announcing an event at which he was a presenter, and websites of three places selling or displaying his work. I have also confirmed that, as David Eppstein has said, some sources which have been cited don't mention the claims for which they are given as references. JBW (talk) 11:39, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Self-published and non-independent sources are unreliable and do not support claims of notability. Claim made above and in the article is that the person's work is "in the permanent collections of major museums (Milwaukee Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, etc.)" My search for "Krejcarek" in the Denver Art Museum collections found only that "We're sorry, but no results matched your search query." My search for "Krejcarek" in the Milwaukee Art Museum collection found only "No results for search Krejcarek." Similarly at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, "No results found for Krejcarek.” Asparagusstar (talk) 13:42, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. I did the same sort of search as Asparagusstar (talk), with the same result, he's apparently not actually in the permanent collections of those museums, although he may have participated in group exhibits there. I also looked for book reviews of his non-selfpublished books without success. Jahaza (talk) 16:01, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - Subject hasn't gained any notability since June 2024, when we first deleted the article. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:22, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - I tried cleaning it up a bit by consolidating duplicate citations and ChatGPT hallucination/citation errors. All of the museum collections failed verification when checked against the actual collection registries of the museums. (These are probably more AI/LLM errors). The only collection that checked out is for a local library, which does not in any way pass WP:NARTIST. Also fails WP:GNG as no significant coverage in independent secondary reliable sources could be found. He's a photographer and teacher doing his job; photographers are not inherently notable, nor are academics. Does not pass WP:NPROF as his H-index score on Google Scholar and on Scopus is zero. Netherzone (talk) 04:07, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - per lack of proper sourcing and arguments made at first AfD etc. -- Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert (talk) 20:36, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Fails WP:BIO and WP:PROF. LibStar (talk) 02:18, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nick D. Kim

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The lack of independent sourcing to establish notability is still an issue since the 2009 discussion. Sources are still not present to establish his notability.

Since that discussion, he has been mentioned in many books, but those are passing mentions crediting him for the pictures used in them. Roast (talk) 07:05, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Owen× ☎ 14:38, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - passes WP:ARTIST. The subject, a New Zealander, won the Sir Julius Vogel Award, which appears to be a prominent award in that country. The article could do with better sourcing, though.--DesiMoore (talk) 15:22, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

More specifically, he won the Fan Award for best fan artwork. What is your evidence that this is a prominent award? The article for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards barely even establishes that the set of awards as a whole is notable, let alone that it is a well-known and significant award or honor. And even if the actual professional Sir Julius Vogel Awards are significant enough to establish notability, it seems like an enormous stretch to claim that winning the fan art award is enough on its own to make someone notable. MCE89 (talk) 15:36, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, for example, according to the Sir Julius Vogel Award article, the "fan award winners" from "1997-2000" are "details unknown." It would be interesting to hear which of the four criteria of WP:ARTIST could possibly be met by winning a "fan award" that no one else can remember who won for four years at a time. Asparagusstar (talk) 19:29, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Admittedly I'm not familiar with WP:NPROF, but it looks like he could meet #C7a, as he appears to be the go-to expert for NZ media on a number of issues, most notably meth contamination: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Nil🥝Talk 07:48, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    And some more: [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
    Just for some context - in NZ "methamphetamine contamination" of housing (especially rentals) was a huge concern a ~decade ago, and numerous "testing" services were set up (which were in all likelihood no more than snake oil salesmen). Dr Kim was in the media a lot during that time, basically saying the fears were overblown. Along with the media stories, there's a journal article here, featuring Dr Kim - [14]
    And some other articles I found not related to meth but other environmental contamination stories in the media - [15] [16] [17] [18] Nil🥝Talk 01:17, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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