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The 1990 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists' Fellowship is confirmed via two independent secondary sources: the Deseret News (May 8, 2003) and The Marks Project, a specialist reference database for American studio ceramics. The NEA's own grants database does not fully cover pre-1995 awards, so a direct primary citation is not available. Secondary source confirmation of awards is standard practice per WP:CITE. Sparks19923 (talk) 15:15, 2 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
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I'm going to object to the presumptive removal of the Joseph Bennion article under WP:LLMPRVOBJ. I'll take responsibility for it and keep maintaining the page. I've gone through and verified every citation by hand, and I did a copyedit for NPOV.
A few things I fixed: Sources check out okay. The Deseret News pieces from 2003 and 2014, the Salt Lake Tribune, the 2025 Sanpete Messenger article, 15 Bytes, Granary Arts, and The Marks Project all line up with what they're supporting. He's also named in the National Endowment for the ArtsAnnual Report 1990 and the 2005 Smithsonian Folklife Festival program. One citation wasn't wrong, but not very strong, it was marked as 1981 Spring City council minutes but was actually a 2025 committee document that mentions the 1981 swearing in. I just dropped the claim that relied on it. I added {{citation needed}} tags to two minor statements I still need to verify. I'll get those fixed soon. The February 2025 material is from two newspaper sources and I kept the wording ot what i considered pretty conservative. Banjoguy99 (talk) 16:20, 3 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for the feedback. I've gone through the whole thing claim by claim against the sources and reworked it. Notability's solid — 1990 National Endowment for the Arts crafts fellowship (it's in the NEA's annual report and the A Creative Legacy index), feature profiles in Ceramics Monthly in 1989 and 1991, work held by the American Museum of Ceramic Art, and the 1992 documentary The Potter's Meal that screened at Sundance.
While I was at it, I removed a few things that didn't hold up. One was a spot where an acknowledgments listing for the Smithsonian festival had been presented as festival participation. He was a contributor in kind. Th river rafting was given undue weight. I also replaced an unsourced description of his influences with the artist's own wording. Everything left is cited to sources that actually support it, and I added web archives to help with link rot. A google search revealed a lot of possible sources. I plan to go back and revisit all the claims and their sources to strengthen them.
