Talk:Smadar Sheffi

BLP message removal

Hi @Hoary, I added a few sources, one of which is the respectable New York Times. Would you feel comfortable now to remove the BLP message? Thanks, Ofrahod (talk) 07:01, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

No, Ofrahod, I would not. I quote:

Smadar Sheffi holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is currently a lecturer at the COLLMAN-College of Management Academic Studies, Rishon Lezion. She is a past lecturer at the Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Art Department of the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo. Her research interests, among others, are representations of the Holocaust in contemporary art, Israeli art and Modernism. Sheffi’s doctoral dissertation, "From Vienna to Jerusalem: Forgotten portraits by Grete Wolf Krakauer", was written under the direction of Prof. Gannit Ankori.

Continuing her research on contemporary Israeli art, Dr. Sheffi recently delivered lectures at the Summer University for Jewish Studies, Hohenems, Austria (“Food in Modern Israeli Art”); The Jewish Museum, Munich (“Reflection on the ‘other’: The image of the Arab in Israeli Art”); and at the American University, Washington DC at the conference Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel (“Portraying states of uprootedness in Israeli art”).

None of this is referenced. -- Hoary (talk) 11:42, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I revised the opening section (that you quoted) and added several sources. I would appreciate it if you took the time to check it and see if the article now meets the BLP standards. Ofrahod (talk) 12:18, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

I have no memory of seeing this message. (I probably didn't see it, because it wouldn't have pinged me.) -- Hoary (talk) 22:49, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Hoary, I added quite a few quality sources to the article about Smadar Sheffi. Would you be able to check it again and see if it now meets the BLP standards? @Ofrahod Ofrahod (talk) 11:13, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

This is certainly a lot better than it was before, Ofrahod. Good work. But it's not simply a matter of adding quality sources. Instead, a quality source must be provided for every assertion. This probably won't be possible by simple addition; so what you then have to do is to remove material for which a quality source can't be supplied.

Under "Curated exhibitions" (after removing items that do appear to be sourced):

• 2013 New Directions II – Beit Mani, Tel Aviv. (Participating artists: Shira Gopstein Moskowitz, Eitan Ben-Moshe, Yair Barak)
• 2015 Lisa Gross, Turmoil, Tel Aviv Artists’ House
• 2018 Grete Wolf Krakauer: From Vienna to Jerusalem, Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod (Guest artists: Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Anna Yam, Marik Lechner)
• 2019 Adi Oz-Ari: Epidermis, Photo Lab Gallery, Tel Aviv
• 2019 Things We Remember, CACR – Contemporary Art Center Ramla (Participating artists: Dganit Ben Admon, Mati Elmaliach)
• 2019 Behind the City, CACR – Contemporary Art Center Ramla (Participating artists: Shlomit Fogel, Yehuda Armoni)

And so on, unreferenced. (And there's more outside this particular list.)

And two vaguely related matters:

• If exhibition catalogues and a book by her are worth listing, then for each, isn't it worth supplying the ISBN (if it has one), or an OCLC number (if it doesn't)?
• Please read up on, and implement, the distinctions between "Cite web" and "Cite news" (and "Cite magazine", etc); and between "title=", "script-title=", and "trans-title=".

(In my quick edit, I made only baby steps towards both ends.) -- Hoary (talk) 22:49, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, @Hoary. I will look into all the subjects you raised. Ofrahod (talk) 09:27, 7 February 2026 (UTC)