Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Arts and entertainment

Arts and Entertainment Work Group

The Arts and Entertainment Work Group is a working group of members of the Biography WikiProject dedicated to ensuring quality and coverage of biography articles.

Biography (arts and entertainment) articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	7	19	37	92		2	157
FL			3	3			6
A			1	1			2
GA	10	40	87	474		93	704
B	56	170	449	1,564		3,388	5,627
C	19	184	872	8,538		18,278	27,891
Start	2	95	1,154	28,098	13	64,702	94,064
Stub		15	314	30,733	4	44,003	75,069
List		5	12	217	1	161	396
Category					39,160		39,160
Disambig					36		36
File					579		579
Project					11		11
Redirect			1	504	2,046		2,551
Template					1,225		1,225
NA					1		1
Other			2	40	102		144
Assessed	94	528	2,932	70,264	43,178	130,627	247,623
Total	94	528	2,932	70,264	43,178	130,627	247,623
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 1,050,589			Ω = 5.16

Related Projects

Since biographies are potentially under the purview of almost all WikiProjects, it is important that we work in tandem with these projects. Also, when seeking collaboration on articles, don't neglect to approach WikiProjects that are part of the geographical region your subject is/was in.

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Announcements/To Do ()

• AfDs:
  • Lilly Contino at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lilly Contino (16 June 2025)
  • John Mandel at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Mandel (3 January 2010) Kept
  • Dawn Geary at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dawn Geary (9 July 2009)
  • Michael Bair at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Bair (14 September 2008)
  • Myami Kurosaki at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Myami Kurosaki (5 January 2008)
  • Sean Scullion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sean Scullion (5 January 2008)
  • Zelda Young at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zelda Young (31 December 2007)
  • Cher Hubsher at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cher Hubsher (20 December 2007 – 27 December 2007) Deleted
  • Raven Hanson at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Raven Hanson (25 October 2007 – 6 November 2007) Deleted
• PRODs:

• Rob Dorn (via WP:PROD on 27 December 2007) Deleted
• Millie Clode (via WP:PROD on 21 December 2007) Deleted
• Heather young (model) (via WP:PROD on 6 December 2007) Deleted

• Notability questioned:
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• William Ely Hill (1887-1962) - Illustrator, created artwork for the book covers for F. Scott Fitzgerald and had a regular entry in the New York tribune along with being published on numerous occasions.
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Members

1. FlawlessOrangeHalves (talk · contribs)- Modern and Contemporary American poets and writers.
2. I am ready to work on the biography articles of Indian or Biography actors Jogesh 69 (talk) 15:00, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
3. come help with the Bronwen Mantel article Smith Jones 22:16, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
4. Lovelaughterlife (talk · contribs) Worked extensively on some biographies; reverted vandalism some others
5. Francoisalex2 (talk · contribs)
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7. Artventure22 (talk · contribs)
8. Truth in Comedy (talk · contribs)
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10. DENAMAX (talk · contribs) Maxim Stoyalov
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13. Susanlesch (talk · contribs), mostly inactive
14. EraserGirl (talk) 03:43, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
15. Shruti14 (talk · contribs) will help when I can
16. Jubileeclipman (talk · contribs) I am interested in taking on UK celebrities with articles that are stubs or otherwise non-standard. Entirely rewrote Fearne Cotton to raise standard and remove fansite tag. I am working on Holly Willoughby which was merely a list plus trivia. Will also work on musicians, all genre, living or dead.
17. Jarhed (talk · contribs) 21:01, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
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26. The Eloquent Peasant (talk · contribs)
27. Lopifalko (talk · contribs)
28. Terasaface (talk) 03:31, 17 January 2020 (UTC) Working on BLP of artists primarily working in the fields of Studio craft
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30. Yorubaja (talk · contribs) 14:23:20, 18 January 2021 (UTC) 
31. Ms Kabintie (talk · contribs)
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35. Baberoothless (talk · contribs)
36. XenonMud (talk · contribs) 21:28, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

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Visual arts deletions

Visual arts deletion sorting discussions

Visual arts

Waltograph

Waltograph (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Zero sigcov outside of a single PCWorld source. Flickr is a primary source while user reviews of a download does not establish notability. Go D. Usopp (talk) 12:41, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

• Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Disney and Technology. Go D. Usopp (talk) 12:41, 2 October 2026 (UTC)
• Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Visual arts and Computing. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 22:46, 2 October 2026 (UTC)
• Delete: I tried looking for "Walt Disney font" as an alternative, not much comes up other than download sites. Even the sourcing now in the article isn't enough (it's also orange per Cite Highlighter, so of marginal notability). Oaktree b (talk) 23:08, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

Bergen Museum of Art & Science

Bergen Museum of Art & Science (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Fails WP:NORG. A before finds zero independent, reliable sources and the museum is not even open yet, WP:TOOSOON? Theroadislong (talk) 20:34, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

• Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Arts, Visual arts, and Museums and libraries. Theroadislong (talk) 20:34, 30 September 2026 (UTC)
• Delete: Not that twitter is a reliable source, but their social channels do not appear to have been updated since 2020. No evidence it's still an active virtual museum and no indication it achieved notability prior to its 2010 closure. No information available to indicate a viable ATD. Star Mississippi 01:15, 1 October 2026 (UTC)
• Note: this discussion has been included in the list of New Jersey-related AfD discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 03:57, 1 October 2026 (UTC)
• Comment: There's some coverage on ProQuest available through the Wikipedia library. Anyone with more spare time than me want to look at these sources? . There's also some stuff about the exhibits that were there. I was unable to find any coverage outside of ProQuest. Also I did decline a PROD on this page but it was only procedural because no rationale was given. Schützenpanzer (Talk) 18:49, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

It does hurt my heart a bit to see such an old article be so bad. So while I'm okay with deletion, I propose merge and redirect to Hackensack, New Jersey, though List of art museums is a less preferred alternative. guninvalid (talk) 17:29, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

Anastasia Schipanova

Anastasia Schipanova (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Delete – I don't think the subject meets WP:GNG or the relevant notability guidelines under WP:BIO and WP:CREATIVE. There are numerous citations, but several are primary or non-independent, including the subject's own website, while others are interviews, event coverage, announcements, or brief mentions that verify individual activities without providing substantial independent coverage of the subject. I also don't see significant independent critical coverage of her work as an artist or other sourcing that would clearly establish notability under WP:CREATIVE. Participation in exhibitions, fashion events and beauty pageants, as well as minor acting appearances, does not establish notability by itself. A search for additional sources does not appear to produce multiple reliable, independent secondary sources with the depth of coverage required by WP:GNG. On the available sourcing, I don't think there is enough independent coverage for a standalone biography. KrvntN (talk) 08:56, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

• Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Women, Visual arts, Beauty pageants, Fashion, and Russia. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:13, 29 September 2026 (UTC)
• Delete. She doesn't meet GNG, the sources are very flattering and not independent. Here is the coverage from one of the listed sources: Anastasia’s successful collaboration with Indian artists sparked a deep passion in her to explore the artistic monuments of India. Being fascinated by the timeless beauty of India, she has expressed her strong interest in visiting Taj Mahal. --Qihonis grigotch (talk) 09:37, 30 September 2026 (UTC)
• Delete – the long reference list is her own site, glossy-magazine interviews and event photo captions, which are primary under WP:INTERVIEW and do not add up to WP:BASIC. Kukuryza (talk) 23:39, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

Jet Le Parti

Jet Le Parti (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Does not meet WP:GNG or WP:NARTIST. Citations are directories (AskArt, EDMTrain), promotional outlets and passing mentions. Kqol • talk 23:32, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

• Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Bands and musicians, Arts, Music, and United States of America. Kqol • talk 23:32, 28 September 2026 (UTC)
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• Keep the nominating user is correct that the article has or had issues regarding WP:PROMO but neither of the issues mentioned merit a deletion, as AFD is not a cleanup WP:NOTCLEANUP. Could these be improved? Big yes. Additionally these three outlets, kaltblut Magazine, Office Magazine, and Flaunt Magazine covered him in depth, shows a pass of WP:GNG

Lincolnkiptoo26 (talk) 06:09, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

• Keep, though several sources in article are directories, primary and paid for sources, there are multiple reliable sources to meet WP:NBASIC criteria which says:

“People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject. If the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability; trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not usually sufficient to establish notability”.

Are all sources in article primary and trivial? No, multiple secondary, independent and reliable sources have discussed the subject and their works in-depth in some WP:RS recognised sources including:

1. This by the 34th Street Magazine dedicated to arts reporting with the title “Meet Jet Le Parti, The Self–Taught Artist Who Turned his Apartment into a Studio Artist Spotlight | Jet combines the philosophy of art with the art of philosophy.” The article has a clearly stated byline (writer’s name) and it is published under the publication’s Art Section. 34th Street Magazine is a weekly arts and entertainment magazine by The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania with a clear editorial independence.

2.This by The Village Voice which is on the list of WP RS with the title “Jet Le Parti and the Poetry of the Impossible Middle Ground”. The piece clearly displays the writers name with an in-depth discussion of the subject and his work. The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

3.This by Blast entertainment with the “Indie Film Breaks The System With ‘Underground’ Launch” provided an a signifcant coverage of the subject and works and the piece is written by the publications staff writter.

4.This by Whitehot Magazine, a publication dedicated to witting about art.

5.This by Billboard Japan, a is a sister organization of the U.S.-based music magazine Billboard

His EP album is on Apple music which is a WP recognised reliable music source widely cited for music here. Runmastery (talk) 10:31, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

Alan Dean (tattoo artist)

Alan Dean (tattoo artist) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Non-notable WP:BIO. Orthogonal Diacritics (talk) 19:34, 26 September 2026 (UTC)

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• Delete per nom. He has commented a few times otherwise nothing else to meet WP:GNG. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-51711-60 (talk) 05:45, 27 September 2026 (UTC)
• Delete – a Guinness record entry, a Weebly page and tattoo-convention sites do not add up to WP:BASIC. Kukuryza (talk) 21:03, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

• Comment - I've added sources to improve the article, there are more reliable sources and coverages of the subject now. Farhanansari1994 (talk) 13:27, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

• Delete All I find in sources are mentions, or his name captioning a photo in a book of tattoos. The Guinness entry doesn't mention him, but wouldn't help even if it did. Social sites like Facebook and Instagram popped up a lot in the first pages of search. After a page or two I was retrieving only sources for Alan Dean Foster. Lamona (talk) 20:20, 1 October 2026 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Also, it's 20 years out of date, so WP:TNT is better than attempting to rescue this mess. Bearian (talk) 21:39, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

Hal Miller (actor)

Hal Miller (actor) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Even though the subject should, in theory, be notable (more than one prominent roles), the sources are so scarce on him that even the only obituary I could find is a Facebook post. Vgbypw (talk) 12:44, 26 September 2026 (UTC)

Keep The above statement isn't true. Only from the perspective of a normal Google Web search. There are quite a few book sources on Google Books including "Puppetry - Page 117" and "Sesame Street Dad: Evolution of an Actor : a Memoir - Page 86". There are over 359 search results on Newspapers.com with the specific search criteria "Hal Miller" "Sesame Street". The sources are out there. Someone just has to have the will to beef up the article and include them. Thanks --Jkaharper (talk) 13:18, 26 September 2026 (UTC)

I cannot say anything about the Newspapers.com sources, but both "Puppetry" and "Sesame Street Dad: Evolution of an Actor", and also "Written Out of Television" only mention Hal Miller in passing. Vgbypw (talk) 13:48, 26 September 2026 (UTC)

Agree with you on that, but the Newspapers.com archive has quite extensive results. --Jkaharper (talk) 20:22, 26 September 2026 (UTC)

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• Delete The sources just aren't there, unfortunately. Because Jkaharper said there was good info in newspapers.com I focused there, but without success. I found mentions (i.e. cast lists), and one article about the play "Purge" where he played the lead. However it didn't say anything about him other than he had this role. I did the search on his name (p.s. sometimes he is listed as "Harold") and Sesame Street but again I only found his name in the cast list. If I missed something, please let me know. Lamona (talk) 20:49, 1 October 2026 (UTC)
• Keep. The Google Books sources that Jkaharper found are good, and I also found Jim Henson (Pages 124-129), published by Aladdin Paperbacks. He's covered in five pages, and it talked about how he toured in the winter for the New York Shakespeare Festival and the Shakespeare Festival. He was referred as an "unlikely guy" to join Sesame Street, according to the book. It also talked about how he was on an album that was apart of CBS Records, and it also talked about his family, which he had a daughter and a son, and it also talked about them as well. That's from three pages (page 124, 127 and 129), (pages 125, 126, 128) probably covers him more, as it still continues talking about Miller until page 129, but those pages weren't in free preview. Also The Show and Tell Machine: How Television Works and Works You Over (Page 255), published by Dial Press talked about his role in Sesame Street and that he starred in a commercial for Bristol-Myers, and that's also covered in Educational Television: A Policy Critique and Guide for Developing Countries (Page 215), published by Praeger. These sources show that WP:GNG exists for Miller, and that there's biographical information on his work in Sesame Street and aside from it. MoviesandTelevisionFan (talk) 17:02, 2 October 2026 (UTC)
• Keep - since he's now dead, the burden of proof has switched to the nomination, which hasn't been met. Bearian (talk) 20:07, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

List of British Asian artists

List of British Asian artists (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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This list is arbitrary and does not pass the notability threshold of WP:NLIST. In the UK, British Asians usually refers to people of subcontinental origin. If you say "he is Asian" to British person, they picture a person of Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan or Bangladeshi origin. The category of "British Asian" applied to all of Asia is not reflecting anything that any contemporary British person recognises as a coherent category, which is why, unlike for British Chinese or British Asian (subcontinental) there are no sources that treat "British Asian" (continental) as a category. At the limit, sources which cover artists with origins from the subcontinent, China and further east may exist, though I have never personally seen any.

There is a census category of "British Asian/Asian", which includes the options "Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi/Chinese/any other Asian please describe". However, people from West and central Asia do not consistently use this and a separate "Arab" category exists outside of Asian. Turks, Iranians and eastern Russians will usually, though not always, tick "White other" or "any other ethnicity". Boynamedsue (talk) 13:31, 26 September 2026 (UTC)

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• Hi there. I'll briefly explain my reasoning for creating the page. I came across the List of Black British artists some months ago while research one project, and, separately, more recently, was exploring the British Asians page to look for info about an Asian artist I had in mind. I noted that the section on arts in the latter page was lacking, and thought that a way in which this section could be enriched, without becoming over long, would be to direct to a stand-alone page. I chose "British Asian" as it is a census term. If folks wanted to make a list or article about British Iranian, British-Russian, artists (or theatre makers, writers, etc etc), then that seems like a splendid idea if separate to the aims of this list/ category. I have added some wording to the top of the list to explain the (imperfect, by many measures, but a definition nonetheless, which accords with census use).

EDIT: in addition, I would note that "British Asian art" or "British Asian artist/s" is legible in an art history context, and as a wider cultural term which does have coherence, to discuss artists/makers of Asian descent. See eg. https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/arts-and-culture/commission-diversity-public-realm/london-unseen-heritage-tours-and-trails/london-unseen-meet-our-guides/british-asian-visual-art-post-cool-britannia; https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/galleries/south-asia-gallery; https://www.vice.com/en/article/where-are-all-the-british-asian-artists-623/; https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/2025/03/11/Chai_Shai_FINAL.pdf; https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/39107/; https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/33853/; https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443711436356; https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526128737/9781526128737.00008.xml etc. Medievalfran (talk) 15:09, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me. I think the articles you've posted kind of prove my point. All but one of them relate to South Asian communities alone, only this one relates, as I suggested we would find, to both South Asian and East Asian Britons (but not West Asian, Central Asian or Southeast Asians).Boynamedsue (talk) 17:12, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

• Delete - "British Asian" is a vague term that really isn't defined outside the Office for National Statistics. Looking at the list is seems to be mostly modern/contemporary artists. A better grouping is the article for The Other Story (exhibition). Heavily referenced in this list, but uses the definition Afro-Asian Artists in Post-war Britain. WP:TOOBROAD unless much more time is spent defining this group with RS. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:07, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

ClayFighter

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Lack of sigcov as a series. ClayFighter (video game) should be moved to this page. Go D. Usopp (talk) 03:32, 23 September 2026 (UTC)

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• Delete Per nom, the "sequels" section of the original game's article can still suffice for this. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 05:02, 23 September 2026 (UTC)

• It would be surprising if a series published by a major publisher on all the major consoles had no significant coverage. This is before the shovelware era, console releases from a big company were virtually always notable. ApLundell (talk) 15:03, 23 September 2026 (UTC)~~
• Oh, I see. I misunderstood. I thought this was the article for the first game in the series. Might as well merge the first game to this list article. ApLundell (talk) 15:06, 23 September 2026 (UTC)
• Probably should have ClayFighter (video game) redirect to ClayFighter. This article as a "series" is basically just in-universe material for a minor fighter series from the 90s that does not have significant coverage as a series. Any material of it as a series is just information on its sequels which can be easily fit a legacy section of the first game. Andrzejbanas (talk) 17:34, 23 September 2026 (UTC)
• Comment - Cool Boarders was kept as a set index article, see its AfD. Isn't this a similar article? --Mika1h (talk) 19:16, 25 September 2026 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Sleepy Sea

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One of a number of very lengthy, possibly AI generated, articles about the work of photographer Kansuke Yamamoto . This article is about a single photograph, and basically a description of what a single author says in her book Japan's Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto. As such, Sleepy Sea shows little sign at all of meeting WP:GNG. Time for it to go. Sionk (talk) 17:56, 15 September 2026 (UTC)

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• Keep – The 2013 J. Paul Getty Museum catalogue discusses Sleepy Sea in detail. Amanda Maddox compares it with Magritte's The Reckless Sleeper and discusses the compass, pocket watch and toy gun marked "Japan". She relates the photograph to Breton, its title and postwar Japan. I think that satisfies WP:SIGCOV. WP:GNG does not set a fixed number of sources; its note on sources allows for cases where one source is credible, neutral and detailed enough for a comprehensive article. Maddox's essay appeared in an edited Getty Museum catalogue. The work is also documented in the 2001 Tokyo Station Gallery catalogue and in the 2017 Japanese Surrealist Photography materials. I don't think the nomination's reference to a single author, by itself, shows that Sleepy Sea fails WP:GNG when Maddox discusses the photograph in this much detail. Fontana2026 (talk) 22:35, 15 September 2026 (UTC)

Update: Since my comment above, I have added a 2013 CNN feature by Lauren Russell to the article. It discusses Yamamoto's political photocompositions and the 1951 security treaty, then describes Sleepy Sea as a 1953 work with a toy gun marked "Japan". It also says that the title does not say what it refers to. This is secondary coverage by a different author and publication. The nomination's point that the article essentially relies on a single author therefore no longer holds. Fontana2026 (talk) 19:14, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

Considering the Maddox essay is in an exhibition catalogue (with a vested interest in promoting the work) and the CNN source is a photo blog, with one small paragraph describing the photo, I stand by my nomination. A bloated article of repeated descriptions and context can be simply summed up by the three lines already in the Kansuke Yamamoto article. Sionk (talk) 22:06, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. For WP:GNG, I don't think the fact that Maddox's essay is in a Getty Museum exhibition catalogue, by itself, establishes a specific vested interest in Sleepy Sea or makes the essay non-independent. Getty does not own Sleepy Sea. Maddox provides scholarly analysis of the photograph and its context. It is not promotional copy. Separately, on CNN, WP:NEWSORG notes that material from an otherwise reliable news organization can remain reliable in blog format. The CNN piece describes Sleepy Sea in a discussion of Yamamoto's political photocompositions and postwar politics. Fontana2026 (talk) 00:03, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

• Keep. I believe that the sources identified by Fontana2026 are sufficient to meet the GNG. Eluchil404 (talk) 20:43, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

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Ludmila Christeseva

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Fails WP:GNG, WP:NBIO, WP:NCREATIVE. I feel kind of bad nominating this because she seems like a prolific artist and activist, such that it seems implausible that there isn't sufficient independent coverage for an article. But a BLP without independent secondary sources is just self-promotion.

My findings in terms of independent coverage:

Astana Times - The publication is independent, but nearly every sentence is a quote from the artist.

Reform News - Primarily about one project with little biographical information about the artist. Also pretty heavily reliant on the artist's own statement about said project.

Kyiv Post - One of these is a decent biographical piece, and as far as I'm aware, Kyiv Post is a reputable news organization - however, the author, Gloria Griffon is not a Kyiv Post reporter or art critic - she is described as a California-based blogger and writer and other than these two pieces for Kyiv Post, her name and (anonymous) profile picture can only be found on the internet at a Russian-language Facebook blog and as the author of a self-published romance novel. I don't know. You be the judge. ^purring_maggot (talk) 22:37, 12 September 2026 (UTC)

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  Good finds! ^purring_maggot (talk) 01:31, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

• Keep No opinion, leaning delete found two interviews , and a Radio Sweden article that focuses on one of her projects and explicitly says she organized them.

These support her notability a bit, but I don't think they are good enough.

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• Keep: Based on the coverage found by the nominator and two above sources I mentioned. Also found Broadwayworld review of the short film Weaving about Christeseva's work. I know wiki doesn't particularly love WP:BROADWAYWORLD for republishing press releases, but in this case the coverage seems to be original and reasonably written. —LastJabberwocky (Rrarr) 11:30, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

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Imaginando

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Fails WP:NCORP and WP:ADMASQ. This article was erroneously moved from the draftspace by Katoya78 in 2024, mere days after an AfC reviewer had rejected it as non-notable, following previous similar rejections. The article lacks significant coverage of the company itself beyond an WP:INDISCRIMINATE recounting of its products and promotional history. — Trailblazer¹⁰¹🔥 ^{(discuss · contribs)} 19:41, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

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• Comment The sources that may be about the company are paywalled, so it is hard to evaluate them. The reviewer declined the draft because of the product section, but I would say it is quite strong as the products are covered by the third-party outlets (unsure about reliability, however), so in principle, one can argue for the notability of the products based on the reviews. Draftification is fine, but the article is too old, so I am leaning toward deletion. Wikipedia.gptzero.me says that the page is human-written with 100% probability. Kelob2678 (talk) 09:27, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

  I was able to reach a few of the product article and there was some substantial coverage. What I can't verify are how independent the tech magazines are that feature them. Tioaeu8943 (talk) 19:00, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

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• Weak keep I think it scrapes past WP:NCORP. Pollia (talk) 19:41, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

  In what regard? The bare minimum should not be enough to justify its existence without any substantial coverage or evidence, which this article is severely lacking. Most of the article reads like a collection of trivial material, editorialized statements, and over-glorified facts to promote the company and its products, none of which are notable on their own and would be WP:INHERITED notability, which is not how notability is determined for related topics. Nothing demonstrates that the company itself yields any notability independent of its products being made from some notable systems. It all around reads like a press release. — Trailblazer¹⁰¹🔥 ^{(discuss · contribs)} 19:51, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

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Weak keep. In my opinion, we should only re-format the entire article. I agree it's not really that WP:NOTABLE, but I think keeping it will work. SH360! (Must edit! Must report!) 09:17, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

• Keep. The company appears to have received coverage in third-party publications, including coverage of its products. The current article may need substantial cleanup, better sourcing, and removal of promotional material, but those are editorial issues. The absence of readily available English-language sources does not by itself establish that the company lacks notability, particularly for a Portuguese company where relevant coverage may be in Portuguese.--Leuvraethi mer Dorus (talk) 08:28, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

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• Comment: As the nominator, I have seen no arguments in favor of retention that have provided sufficient evidence proving that the company on its own has WP:SUSTAINED independent coverage and long-term notability, and have rather acknowledged the lack of notability from present sources. Giving this article a pass when it doesn't even meet the basic notability criteria is a bad precedent to set, and would essentially endorse and encourage incomplete and irrelevant articles to be created and kept. What is the point in having the notability criteria if we as editors are going to be so selective in its application and the basic fundamental editorial standards? I remain unconvinced by the keep arguments thus far, and do not understand why this promotional stub is being given the easy way out. There are alternatives to deletion, and should any editors feel compelled to salvage this article or prove notability in the long run, that may be done at the draft for incubation, which is where articles with unproven notability unfit for the mainspace encyclopedia are supposed to go first. This one circumvented and bypassed the entire AfC process without establishing notability first; hence this AfD. — Trailblazer¹⁰¹🔥 ^{(discuss · contribs)} 17:13, 27 September 2026 (UTC)
• Delete Classic proseline spammy company article. It's very telling how all three of the keep !voters above have relatively little experience and how none of them have answered the call to do a source assessment. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 20:47, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

Delete: Looking over most of the sources, they are either press releases, regurgitated interviews with the founder, or coverage of one of the company's products rather than the company itself. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 03:16, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

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Robert Blohm

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Not notable. All citations currently in the article are to the guy's own website, which makes sense since he wrote the article himself. Said website lists some newspaper articles and such that he's written; it does not qualify for WP:AUTHOR. I can find no independent coverage of him, so fails WP:GNG. AntiDionysius (talk) 14:41, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

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I'm Robert Blohm attempting to reply to AntiDionysius. I don't know how to format a reply yet, nor do I know if this is the only place where I need reply. I'm eager to adjust.

My Wikipedia page has been up for a good 20 years, and I have done major updating once a decade.

Today I made the only significant addition to my article since a year ago when I did some small editing but had long forgotten my password which was irrecoverable because my email ISP closed its domain listed on my Wikipedia account when bought out by Verizon. So there was frequent anonymous movement by me for a brief period.

Today I only added two things: a "Family History", and a box with no new content except for a photo for the first time. The Family History and the photo have been summarily removed. So I don't see the urgency for summarily deleting the rest of my account which I didn't change but for a word or two, with editorial comment on the change. Also the cautionary automated note on my account disappeared entirely during my work. I was very slow to get back into the ins and outs of editing. This is the first complaint I've received from a person in the 20 years of my article.

I can withdraw that Family History for good. But I would like to restore the photo which I can't see the relation of to the two issues AntiDionysius raises, namely of "standing" either as a commentator and as a policy professional.

Three years ago was the last major change I made to the page, to specifically address any concern such as AntiDionysius is raising: I gathered together and appended thereto an extensive press kit attached hereto https://www.robertblohm.com/cvBlohm%26Bibliography.pdf of 670 only top media references to me and output by me, counterfactually to AntiDionysius' saying he "can find no independent coverage of" me (i.e. no notability) and, referencing my website and probably neglecting to click the extensive list it has of the more recent two decades of activity not directly shown on the site, saying the website "lists some newspaper articles and such that he's written" (i.e. not an author).

That is not to mention my 35 decades of "and such" continuous contributions to the editorial page of the world's most influential newspaper, "The Wall Street Journal", as one of its most frequent and longest outside contributors. Not to mention my position as the oldest and longest participant and official in the North American Electric Reliability Corp. the supranational regulatory body that holds the fate of our AI security in its hands. Nor that I have been among the most regular guests of the International Monetary Fund, to its Annual and Spring Meetings since last decade, like the one I've been preparing to go to in Bangkok next week.

AntiDionysius also says there are citations in my article but they don't count because "all citations currently in the article are to the guy's own website". That doesn't mean to articles I self publish and post there, it means important outside articles that I may post the print versions of or outside articles no longer archived by the publishers after many years. I should also be cognizant of copyright and not flaunting them.

The name AntiDionysius is suggestive of fighting fraud in the form of so-called neoplatonist Dionysius and his centuries later commentator Pseudo-Dionysius considered by some to be covers/usurpers of others.

I am prepared to curate and propagate contents of my presskit directly onto my Wikipedia page as long as it doesn't raise copyright concerns. But that takes time and I can't do it quickly enough to allay an imperative to delete my account. Notably in the twenty years, no one has altered or disputed anything that's been said in the article.

Please inform me that I'm writing this in proper form in the proper forum and missing no chance to engage. Robert Blohm (talk) 20:01, 2 October 2026 (UTC)--Robert Blohm (talk) 20:01, 2 October 2026 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robert Blohm (talk • contribs) 18:33, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

Looking through his resume I can't find anything that would meet NAUTHOR. Delete per nom. msk 19:27, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

Be my guest here: 670

https://www.robertblohm.com/cvBlohm%26Bibliography.pdf Robert Blohm (talk) 20:01, 2 October 2026 (UTC)--Robert Blohm (talk) 20:01, 2 October 2026 (UTC)Robert Blohm (talk) 19:51, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

Hi, Robert. This discussion is focused on the article. Your account is safe; you don't need to worry.

However, the article reads as a promotional puff piece for its subject. I will need to review the articles compiled about Robert. SenshiSun (talk) 22:41, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

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Gunjan Singh

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Fails WP:GNG. No indication of proper notability. Pirateofthewest (talk) 08:06, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

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• Delete: non-notable. Suðurhafsljósæta (talk) 08:35, 2 October 2026 (UTC)
• Delete. Insignificant as a scholar. Athel cb (talk) 08:55, 2 October 2026 (UTC)
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Delete – WP:RUNOFTHEMILL scholar; Google returns unrelated results when searching for the name. I did not see anything that suggests my initial instinct is off, but if someone has sources to prove otherwise feel free to ping me as I have not dug too deep here. –Maltazarian ^{ᚾparley$\lor$investigateᛅ} 11:11, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

Delete - As pointed out by Pirateofthewest, it fails WP:GNG and doesn't provide much information. With kind regards, Blint (talk) 14:38, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

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Sundaresanar

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I've been working on the unreferenced articles backlog and I can't find any reliable sources on this historical person. Being a person from India, especially an older one, the spelling of the name suffers massively from Hunterian transliteration, which you can even see between the article title and the bolded subject name in the first line. I've tried multiple permutations, however, and still haven't been able to find proper sources.

What complicates this further is that there is someone else with the name Sundaresanar, possibly multiple someones, that lived in the decades just following his claimed death. So those sources are not about this Sundaresanar. Additionally, there was a prior version of the article that has more info and even references, but the info was entirely about the rest of the person's family and not about him. So a big ol zero for notability from that either.

In short, a complete failure of WP:N. Silverseren^C 22:53, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: even before it was tagged as unsourced in April, this had been tagged as a potential GNG failure since 2025. (No opinion.). WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:51, 30 September 2026 (UTC)
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• Delete: Fails WP:GNG - not able to find much with significant details about Sundaresa Desikar himself. Asteramellus (talk) 21:47, 30 September 2026 (UTC)
• Delete – the article cites nothing, and the nominator's search for sources came back empty (WP:V, WP:GNG). Kukuryza (talk) 23:48, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

Alexandra Olivia

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All sources are run of the mill so do not show notability or meet WP:NAUTHOR. PeriodicEditor (talk) 19:56, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

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None of the sources are run of the mill? Book reviews are how authors obtain notability. What? PARAKANYAA (talk) 20:42, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

• Delete. This article currently has two sentences and fails WP:GNG. It seems there may not be significant coverage of this person but it is possible there may be of some of their work. Aneirinn (talk) 21:11, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

Keep. Meets AUTHOR#3. msk 22:37, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: WP:NAUTHOR says "a person is likely to be notable if" they meet either #1, #2, or #3, not necessarily that they are. They still have to pass WP:GNG, which the article does not as it does not have anywhere near significant coverage of this individual. It can be debated if they even meet #3. The second is a review by a literary agent of an agency of which she is a client , and the third is not by a reliable source. Aneirinn (talk) 22:55, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

  Didn't catch that, thanks. Weak delete. msk 23:14, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

  They do not necessarily have to pass GNG if they meet NAUTHOR. See this recent RfC where everybody agreed that the status quo is, if you have two (theoretically) notable works, even if they do not have their own article, then you meet NAUTHOR and can be kept. 1brianm7 (talk) 23:50, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

  I am not voting yet because you need at least 2 notable books to pass NAUTHOR and only 1 has been demonstrated. But no, that is not the case. If you pass NAUTHOR you are notable. All that means is no one is absolutely notable, no matter what guideline they pass - but that also goes for GNG. That is why GNG is a presumption. If we find a compelling enough reason we can rebut the presumption of any notability guideline, including the GNG. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:39, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

Paul Sloane (speaker)

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Created by an editor blocked for UPE, none of the sourcing passes WP:GNG. Can't find any evidence they pass WP:NAUTHOR or equivalent. EDIT: I somehow overlooked the previous AfD only a month ago, whoops! As noted in the previous AfD, the only review of his work (that was definitvely by him) anyone could find was , which definitely isn't enough for NAUTHOR. Hemiauchenia (talk) 12:32, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

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Delete - one source isn't enough, so can't scrape past WP:NAUTHOR. SH360! (Must edit! Must report!) 12:46, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

• Delete: Clearly not notable enough for a BLP. Although there are more sources available from a quick search, I'm finding the reliability very dubious and the article itself verges on WP:RESUME. sksatsuma 13:22, 29 September 2026 (UTC)
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Comment: I was able to find a couple of reviews: this one from The Mathematical Gazette about Mathematical Lateral Thinking Puzzles, and this one from the Journal of Product Innovation Management about The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills. I'm not very knowledgeable on the article's subject or with the relevant notability guidelines, so I won't comment on if it should be deleted. I also don't know if these reviews are independent, reliable sources, but seeing that they both come from peer-reviewed journals I'm inclined to think so. ExitTheWarrior (talk) 15:33, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

Jet Le Parti

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Does not meet WP:GNG or WP:NARTIST. Citations are directories (AskArt, EDMTrain), promotional outlets and passing mentions. Kqol • talk 23:32, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

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• Keep the nominating user is correct that the article has or had issues regarding WP:PROMO but neither of the issues mentioned merit a deletion, as AFD is not a cleanup WP:NOTCLEANUP. Could these be improved? Big yes. Additionally these three outlets, kaltblut Magazine, Office Magazine, and Flaunt Magazine covered him in depth, shows a pass of WP:GNG

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• Keep, though several sources in article are directories, primary and paid for sources, there are multiple reliable sources to meet WP:NBASIC criteria which says:

“People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject. If the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability; trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not usually sufficient to establish notability”.

Are all sources in article primary and trivial? No, multiple secondary, independent and reliable sources have discussed the subject and their works in-depth in some WP:RS recognised sources including:

1. This by the 34th Street Magazine dedicated to arts reporting with the title “Meet Jet Le Parti, The Self–Taught Artist Who Turned his Apartment into a Studio Artist Spotlight | Jet combines the philosophy of art with the art of philosophy.” The article has a clearly stated byline (writer’s name) and it is published under the publication’s Art Section. 34th Street Magazine is a weekly arts and entertainment magazine by The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania with a clear editorial independence.

2.This by The Village Voice which is on the list of WP RS with the title “Jet Le Parti and the Poetry of the Impossible Middle Ground”. The piece clearly displays the writers name with an in-depth discussion of the subject and his work. The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

3.This by Blast entertainment with the “Indie Film Breaks The System With ‘Underground’ Launch” provided an a signifcant coverage of the subject and works and the piece is written by the publications staff writter.

4.This by Whitehot Magazine, a publication dedicated to witting about art.

5.This by Billboard Japan, a is a sister organization of the U.S.-based music magazine Billboard

His EP album is on Apple music which is a WP recognised reliable music source widely cited for music here. Runmastery (talk) 10:31, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

Baxter Kruger

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Does not meet WP:GNG or WP:NAUTHOR. Citations are the subject's own ministry site, affiliated theology organisations and blogs. Kqol • talk 23:10, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

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Rashmi Samant

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Not notable outside Oxford_University_Student_Union#Rashmi_Samant where the content is already found for years. See WP:GNG. Qualitist (talk) 05:55, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

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• Delete Even the coverage at Oxford University Student Union#Rashmi Samant happened because Indian foreign ministry was taking interest into the matter. Koshuri ^(あ!) 07:19, 28 September 2026 (UTC)
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  It is all about being elected as president of Oxford Student Union. It does not make anybody notable. Koshuri ^(あ!) 08:11, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

  There are certainly more sources pre-dating ministers' comments on the page itself. She was the first Hindu President of OUSU. And her resignation generated a lot of SIGCOV from reliable independent sources Dz5t 8O12 (talk) 23:23, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

  Resignation from this position also does not make anybody notable. Koshuri ^(あ!) 12:28, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

• Delete Fails WP:N. Not notable for even a single event because the controversy itself does not need a separate article. Accesscrawl (talk) 11:24, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

Keep main in a notable event and got strong coverage from that. SHe avoids BLP1e because she also got some following articles like that one from 2023, this one from 2023, this hindustan times from 2021, there's a full piece from hindustan times on her election, and this Hindu Post piece. Jishara (please ping upon response) (talk) 22:57, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

• Hindupost is an Hindu extremist fake news website. You need to familiarise yourself with WP:RS. Wisher08 (talk) 06:43, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

• Delete - Does fail GNG since all of the cited coverage only involves the non-notable controversy sorrounding Oxford University Student Union election. Wisher08 (talk) 06:43, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

• Delete per above. The coverage involves only a position that does not even make an individual any notable in the first place. Chronos.Zx (talk) 06:53, 29 September 2026 (UTC)
• Delete A pretty clear WP:BLP1E. Hemiauchenia (talk) 18:26, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

Keep. This biography should be assessed under WP:GNG and should not be conflated with the 2021 deletion of the separate event article "Rashmi Samant racism row", which was deleted pursuant to WP:EVENTCRIT. Whether a particular event merits a standalone article and whether a person is independently notable are distinct questions.

The subject has received significant coverage in multiple reliable sources spanning several years. Coverage predates the controversy and includes standalone reporting on her election as the first Indian woman president of the Oxford University Student Union in February 2021 (The Times of India,"Oxford University Student Union gets first Indian female president". The Times of India. 13 February 2021. Mint,"Meet Rashmi Samant, first Indian female president of Oxford University Student Union". Mint. 13 February 2021. and Deccan Herald"Karnataka girl first Indian woman to become president of Oxford Student Union". Deccan Herald. 12 February 2021.).

Substantial coverage also extends beyond the Oxford SU episode. ThePrint published a standalone profile by Unnati Sharma in October 2023Sharma, Unnati (10 October 2023). "Rashmi Samant's life changed after Oxford row. She's an author, runs a company & is feted in BJP circles". ThePrint. examining the subject's subsequent activities, professional work and authorship. Additional coverage exists regarding her later public activities and published work, including coverage of her book A Hindu in OxfordSoni, Mallika (27 September 2023). "'We're treated badly': 1st Indian to head Oxford's student body in tell-all book". Hindustan Times..

This pattern of coverage is not limited to a single event. WP:BLP1E requires all three of its conditions to be met, and they are not: (1) sources do not cover her only in the context of a single event, as the 2023 ThePrint profile addresses her subsequent career and authorship; (2) she does not remain a low-profile individual, having since published two books and worked as a public commentator; and (3) the event was not insignificant, as the 2021 episode drew international coverage and was raised in the Indian Parliament by the External Affairs Minister. The continuing coverage years after the original controversy therefore weighs against a WP:BLP1E characterization.

Any overlap with content at Oxford University Student Union § Rashmi Samant is a question of article organization and editorial scope, not evidence of non-notability. Per WP:SUMMARYSTYLE and WP:PAGEDECIDE, duplication concerns can be addressed through editorial restructuring rather than deletion. NomadBaba (talk) 12:46, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

This SPA registered a few hours ago and has no edits outside this subject. Accesscrawl (talk) 14:20, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

Kenjji

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I am unable to find WP:SIGCOV at this time. The sources used in the article are local, primary, or blog-like. The subject of the article is not meeting WP:GNG at this time. FiddleheadLady (talk) 00:56, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

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• Delete. Fails GNG. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:59, 27 September 2026 (UTC)
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• Delete. A source search turns up only passing mentions in event listings and anthology contributor credits, and the article's own sources are local or blog-like. There is no independent, reliable WP:SIGCOV of this illustrator, so WP:GNG is not met. Onatic (talk) 16:45, 28 September 2026 (UTC)
• Delete – the sourcing is a spotlight on his employer's own college site, his collective's roster page, and a single Bleeding Cool piece about one comic; one independent source is not enough for WP:BASIC. Kukuryza (talk) 21:08, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

Andrea O'Reilly

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Article subject requests deletion per WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE on the grounds that she is a private person and lacks notability - WP:GNG - sufficient to warrant an article. See VRT ticket:2025090810005962. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 00:06, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

She is the founder of the field of Motherhood Studies and has received millions of dollars for her influential scholarship and research. 37trees (talk) 00:14, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

I see that you recently submitted a draft article about O'Reilly's daughter. Do you have a connection to O'Reilly or Clementine Morrigan? pburka (talk) 01:08, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

I have been following the situation online for over a year. 37trees (talk) 02:01, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

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She seems incredibly notable both through GNG and NACADEMIC (full professor) , she founded an entire academic discipline , and she is a public person as frequently quoted by the media about her field of study , she is not a narrow pass so BLPREQUESTDELETE cannot apply. As far as I can tell all of her books are, themselves, notable.

However, the personal life section has inappropriate uses of user generated sources, I will remove those. We cannot cite allegations like that to substack and instagram posts, or police reports, per WP:BLPPRIMARY! The two other sources did not verify that! Massive BLP violation. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:12, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

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It’s evident that the article was nominated for deletion by the subject because of the text about the allegations. The said text has been removed (citing libel, slander, etc as reasons in the edit summaries) several times since yesterday to the point that an RPP was filed. Baberoothless (talk) 08:13, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

Yes, and it should have stayed removed, because it was cited to Instagram and a Substack. Not BLP worthy sourcing! The 2 other sources were presumably to establish it was her daughter but did not back it up otherwise. PARAKANYAA (talk) 13:17, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

I don’t entirely agree. Instagram and Substack aren’t to be entirely relied upon, however, this isn’t some random, unknown person posting on the Internet about the allegations (not that, that’s any better). It’s her daughter, with whom she has co-authored books on motherhood. Clementine talked about her experience in this article about Alice Munroe, which mirrors the situation with Andrea–a successful author with similar allegations of abuse wrt her daughter. I believe the police report was also added in addition to Instagram, but was dismissed for being a primary source.

I, myself, advocate against relying on primary sources too much, but in this instance, it seems more like capitulating to the subject’s demands of either we suppress the allegations or delete her page. In my opinion, that doesn’t seems like a great precedence to set. Baberoothless (talk) 13:52, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

We are forbidden from using user generated sources on BLPs, regardless of source. WP:BLPSPS: "Never use self-published sources (including books, zines, websites, blogs, podcasts, or social network posts) as sources of material about a living person, unless written or published by the person themselves." Never. This is not debatable. PARAKANYAA (talk) 14:01, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

I’m not trying to debate. Just offering my two cents on the situation re: capitulating to the subject. Beyond that, I will sit this one out. Baberoothless (talk) 14:25, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

It's not about capitulating, whether she objected or not this should have never been in the article. PARAKANYAA (talk) 14:32, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

Primary sources should only be used for non-contentious facts. This is clearly a contentious topic, so high-quality secondary sources should be used exclusively. That said, there's no reason not to mention her daughter in the article, as long as we avoid discussing the as-yet unproven allegations. pburka (talk) 15:15, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

We usually don't mention non-notable children of BLPS, no? If she is notable, sure. PARAKANYAA (talk) 17:05, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

I don't believe there's any prohibition, especially for adult children. The daughter isn't as notable as her mother, but neither is she a low profile individual. pburka (talk) 17:48, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

The sexual abuse of children is “contentious” and csa survivors need to get journalists to report on the abuse in order for it to be treated as true, reporting to police isn’t even enough. The daughter has been trying to get the media to report on it or for the university to respond. She’s been documenting that process. How would you suggest a victim seek coverage in a secondary source? As it stands Wikipedia favours abusers maintaining narrative control. 37trees (talk) 20:50, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia doesn't publish original research, regardless of its truth or importance; we only publish what's already been reported in reliable sources. I know this can be frustrating, and I also agree that it often reinforces traditional power structures, but it's critical for the integrity of the project. Since Morrigan is a writer and journalist, she has greater access than most people to publishers who could choose to report on her accusations, but that does not appear to have happened yet. pburka (talk) 21:16, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

Are the police not a reliable source? And yes, she has more access than most survivors and she has been trying for over a year to get a journalist to report on it or for the university to respond. She has written publicly about that. But no one is picking up the story probably because of O’Reilly’s power and influence. Monro was not reported on until after she died. 37trees (talk) 21:31, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

Police are neither reliable nor secondary sources. Many people believe that police are notoriously unreliable. pburka (talk) 22:55, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

WP:BLPPRIMARY "Do not use trial transcripts and other court records, or other public documents, to support assertions about a living person. Do not use public records that include personal details, such as date of birth, home value, traffic citations, vehicle registrations, and home or business addresses. " PARAKANYAA (talk) 00:09, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

Does this count as a secondary source

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Perdonar_a_nuestras_madres/RSQIEgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Clementine+Morrigan%22&pg=PT111&printsec=frontcover

Clementine has a very international and multilingual readership. This is not in English but it is a published book discussing the accusations against O'Reilly. ~2026-52997-22 (talk) 02:04, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

An academic journal that mentions it in Finnish:

https://journal.fi/sukupuolentutkimus/article/view/185303

I think it is relevant that Morrigan has such a multilingual audience. ~2026-52997-22 (talk) 02:56, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

• Keep easily meets WP:AUTHOR with multiple reviews of multiple works. In addition, as editor-in-chief of journal, she meets criteria #7 of WP:NPROF. DaffodilOcean (talk) 17:43, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

  Note that I have added reviews to the article to be clear how widely cited her work is. DaffodilOcean (talk) 17:44, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

• Keep per WP:AUTHOR, WP:PROF#C1, and #C8, but protect to prevent a recurrence of the WP:BLP violations that triggered this AfD. And courtesy-blank this AfD once completed. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:48, 27 September 2026 (UTC)
• Keep. O'Reilly passes WP:AUTHOR with multiple reviewed books and WP:NPROF as a full professor and founding editor of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, and a subject deletion request cannot override that for a public academic. The contentious material was sourced to Instagram and Substack and was properly removed per WP:BLPPRIMARY. Onatic (talk) 16:28, 28 September 2026 (UTC)
• Keep. it meets WP:AUTHOR and PROF. Many well covered books and more. Overall/general notability is also present. Qihonis grigotch (talk) 09:57, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

Kathy Coleman

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Redirect to Land of the Lost (1974 TV series), for only where this former child actress is notable. Found Fox News articles about her, whose reliability is questionable (WP:FOXNEWS). Outside primary sources, like her herself, I dunno any reliable source that could've verified her general notability. This one verifies probably her notability as a child actress of that TV series. George Ho (talk) 01:48, 23 September 2026 (UTC)

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• Keep. I do see that she meets WP:GNG (now listed in the article), and the news sources I found for her in Newspapers.com provided in-depth biographical information about her, as most of the sources I found were after the cancellation of Land of the Lost. She did have a significant role in Land of the Lost, and at least she had more than five roles according to IMDb, and also appeared in a Thespian play in 1977. For the book she written, I did find a source talking about the book Running from Sleestaks was the easy part: Land of the Lost star collaborates with Covington resident (Northern Kentucky Tribune). MoviesandTelevisionFan (talk) 05:25, 23 September 2026 (UTC)

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Tehzeeb Hafi

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One-line stub whose four refs are a 2016 feature on Facebook poets in general, a literary festival notice, an event listing and a piece on Rekhta's superhero posters of poets; none is significant coverage of Hafi himself, and I can't find the critical commentary on his work that WP:NAUTHOR requires. Moarnighar (talk) 07:19, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

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• Delete - too short and too poorly sourced; one sentence and two sources are not enough for a BLP. Ping me if you add more. Bearian (talk) 21:35, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

  Keep per CONTN, present sourcing achieving SIGCOV (Dawn being the newspaper of record for Pakistan, and comprising two sources here) on top of the fact that the literary festival itself establishes a degree of notability.

  CSGinger14 (talk) 05:29, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

  Plus (though posted to his own account) this appearance at the University of Lahore that showcases regional notability.

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Matt McCusker

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Non-notable comedian who cannot WP:INHERIT notability from his much more famous podcast collaborator Shane Gillis. The sources here are mix of unreliable sources like WP:IMDB; links to his own book, podcasts, and specials; Q&A WP:PRIMARYSOURCE podcast interviews of McCusker, WP:TRIVIALMENTIONs (example); and a tabloid-y story about his wife. I could not find any full-length independent reviews for his book Overlook. His first special also has no independent reviews. I found two independent reviews for his Netflix special (Decider, Ready Steady Cut - not sure if the latter is a blog or a reliable publication]), so perhaps an article could be written about that special. But for McCusker himself, there's no pass of WP:GNG or WP:NCREATIVE. Dclemens1971 (talk) 14:42, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

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Comment Ready Steady Cut is a solid publication with definite editorial review (procedures are listed on the site) and solid reporters including Ricky Valero, a member of the Critic's Choice Association, Amanda Guarragu, who wrote for Collider, and Kieran Burt, who used to write for Comic Book Resources. No opinion on the article - I found this billboard piece, but i'd want a couple more. Jishara (please ping upon response) (talk) 22:56, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

• Keep – I don't think this is really a case of inherited notability from Shane Gillis. McCusker has gotten a fair amount of coverage on his own at this point, including full reviews of A Humble Offering, Billboard coverage of his North American tour, and multiple Deadline pieces about his stand-up and career. Those aren't just brief mentions; they actually discuss McCusker and his work in some detail.

He's also the sole performer and writer of a Netflix stand-up special that received multiple independent reviews, which I think makes a reasonable case under WP:NCREATIVE, along with WP:GNG. Some of the sourcing currently in the article is weak, but that seems like an argument for cleaning up and improving the page rather than deleting it when stronger independent coverage is available. Quintin Soloviev (talk) 17:09, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

Only one bolded !vote, please. WP:NCREATIVE requires either multiple notable works (here there's only maybe one), or for multiple independent sources to provide critical assessment of his body of work, neither of which applies to McCusker. The Billboard coverage reads like press release-based material heavily reliant on McCusker's claims about himself, and thus not independent. The Deadline coverage includes a summary of a Q&A podcast interview, neither independent nor secondary, and a routine press release-based announcement. I don't think any of these reaches WP:GNG. Dclemens1971 (talk) 17:21, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

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Eskil Skjeldal

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The subject is a Norwegian writer and columnist, previously deleted under WP:A7 (log). The cited sources verify his publications but consist mainly of publisher profiles and routine coverage, lacking the significant, independent coverage required by WP:GNG and WP:AUTHOR. The available sourcing appears not to establish notability, even for a stub. AriuCH (talk) 13:34, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

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Have none of his novels received any reviews? PARAKANYAA (talk) 13:45, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

Yes, there are dozens of reviews in total Geschichte (talk) 08:18, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

• Keep, no WP:BEFORE in the database https://nb.no/search has been performed. Geschichte (talk) 20:23, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

  The database itself does not establish WP:GNG. Could you please provide the independent, reliable secondary sources that give significant coverage of the subject? AriuCH (talk) 11:38, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

  Have a look in the article, please Geschichte (talk) 18:08, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

• Keep per WP:HEY. Bearian (talk) 23:35, 26 September 2026 (UTC)

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Olivia Dodd

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Tenuous refs, not much else. Mostly WP:PRIMARY. Fails WP:SIGCOV, WP:BIO. scope_creep^Talk 19:14, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

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Keep I'd hardly call People, ABC, and LondonWorld articles (not interviews, articles) primary or tenuous. Jishara (please ping upon response) (talk) 21:49, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: this has been tagged as a potential NBIO failure since May. (No opinion.). WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:19, 14 September 2026 (UTC)
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They are a story of her sitting working in typewriter and then getting interviewed. There is no other coverage. It the same coverage in the other two refs, which is affliate news. That is not coverage and it fails WP:SIGCOV. scope_creep^Talk 06:17, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

Its WP:BIO1E. scope_creep^Talk 06:22, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

I haven't checked for sources but there is a review of her work, no? Best, Reading Beans, Duke of Rivia 08:06, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Reading Beans: If you can find something it would be ideal. That is the whole point of having multiple folk having a look at it. A single review isn't sufficent WP:THREE reviews would be good. scope_creep^Talk 09:11, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

There is definitely at least three events - her appearance at Edinburgh Fringe (LondonWorld and the Scottish Field reviews), her helping a guy propose with her poetry (People), and her general job as a typewriting poet (which I still wouldn't consider 1 event, as it's not an event so much as her job, and which is ABC). People is early December 2024, ABC is end of December 2024, LondonWorld is July 2025, and Scottish Field is August 2025 (but on the same event as LondonWorld). Jishara (please ping upon response) (talk) 13:40, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: Most of the coverage seems to stem from particular appearances or events. I'm not sure there's enough independent coverage of Dodd herself here to establish notability. Ramonwe (talk) 16:16, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

  I would agree with this. Colepetbun (talk) 05:11, 21 September 2026 (UTC) —  Blocked sockpuppet of Dingdongd1887, see investigation. EaglesFan37 (talk) 05:38, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

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• Keep - I think there's enough for WP:GNG. Bearian (talk) 11:47, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

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Onke Mazibuko

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Non-notable author, or should I say not-yet-notable. His book The Second Verse seems to have multiple independent full-length reviews, and thus would pass WP:NBOOK, but I didn't find any independent reviews of his book Canary or his forthcoming book The Kings of Goat Hill. Should multiple reviews emerge for either of these books, he will become notable under WP:NAUTHOR in the future. However, he doesn't pass it now, and the coverage of him doesn't support a WP:GNG pass as it's a mix of non-independent sources like official bios, his own writing and Q&A interviews. Dclemens1971 (talk) 15:37, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

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Keep - a Mail and Guardian Zambia article on canary and his writing process and a paywalled book club review from EWN Zambia. I can't guarantee it as I can't access the EWN article, but from what I can tell it looks to be a review with sigcov from an independent source, which means multiple independent articles on Canary, which (together with The Second Verse) passes NAUTHOR. Jishara (please ping upon response) (talk) 20:59, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

The EWN article (which I can access, you can click to bypass the wall) isn't a review of the book, it's a podcast interview of Mazibuko and thus not independent. If you can find a second real review of Canary I'll be happy to withdraw the nomination, but we're not to NAUTHOR yet. Dclemens1971 (talk) 21:15, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

Ah, if that's the case, that definitely changes things. Canary is also discussed a bit here, but it's not the main subject of the article, and I think there's some sigcov here but I don't subscribe to News24 and my usual ways to avoid paywalls aren't working here, like with the other one. There's also a review from this one-person outlet. Jishara (please ping upon response) (talk) 23:08, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

• weak keep Some coverage here , which appears to be a RS. The sources above as well help. Should be enough to show AUTHOR. Oaktree b (talk) 23:56, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

  This it's the same source as above, but shows critical notice. A book review by teh Goethe Institute, which I would use as a RS . Oaktree b (talk) 15:08, 12 September 2026 (UTC)

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