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Charles Frederic Swigert Jr. Memorial Fountain (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Does not appear in any RS, other than a single entry listing it at the Smithsonian Institute. Should be merged into "Oregon Zoo." PlotinusEnjoyer (talk) 15:10, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Charles Frederic Swigert Jr. Memorial Fountain (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Does not appear in any RS, other than a single entry listing it at the Smithsonian Institute. Should be merged into "Oregon Zoo." PlotinusEnjoyer (talk) 15:10, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

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Questionable WP:Notability, with most information sourced from subject's own resume —Mint Keyphase (Did I mess up? What have I done?) 04:19, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Comment - I've trimmed a lot of the puffery/fluff, unsourced claims and items sourced solely to her own resume on her website. I have retained the reliable sources, although I'm not sure about the L.A. Voyage, it seems like a blog. The article previously was extremely promotional and seems the work of a PR agent or was heavily edited by the artist themself or someone connected to the artist. A before search finds tons of churnalism, pay-to-play publications, native advertising which points to SEO activity and PROMO. However, she is in two collections that I could verify, and had a review in the Los Angeles Times,[1]; is mentioned an academic journal article (not certain how extensively)[2], has a short entry in the book Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today on page 139 [3]. I'm leaning towards K*eep because I think there is a good chance she is notable despite the promotional efforts, but want to do a Newspapers.com and a JSTOR search first before !voting. Netherzone (talk) 16:04, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - after deeper searching and cleaning up the promo and poor sourcing from the article, I have found definitive evidence of her notability. I've added numerous citations in reliable sources to the article. A search on the Wikipedia Library revealed everything from feature articles to academic journals, I didn't even have to go directly to JSTOR to find additional hits. I tried logging into Newspapers.com via the WikiLib, but could not access the site (a perpetual problem it seems). Nevertheless, she meets both WP:GNG and WP:NARTIST. Netherzone (talk) 16:37, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  In light of what you've raised, i would support keeping this page, but i believe that it would still need some major more work done to bring it up to quality standards. —Mint Keyphase (Did I mess up? What have I done?) 05:28, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Please go right ahead. If you want to continue to trim it back to a stub, I have no objections whatsoever. Netherzone (talk) 14:05, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Also, did you happen to do a WP:BEFORE search prior to nominating? It's considered best practices. Netherzone (talk) 14:23, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Well, I tried, but I find it hard to see anything but self-published or commissioned reports. —Mint Keyphase (Did I mess up? What have I done?) 05:24, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

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I do not believe TJ Norris meets notability guidelines, either general or for artists. This page has somehow survived more than a decade without a single reference listed, and I can currently only find one: this 2013 article about Norris being hired by an art museum. According to the News section of his website, his work has been featured in various publications and festivals, none of which are particularly notable.

There was a previous AfD that resulted in a "keep" in 2007, but the discussion was partially hijacked by sockpuppets or meatpuppets whose accounts were created the same day and only ever edited that AfD: Soapsnydler (talk · contribs), SnyderStephanie (talk · contribs), and Kevredmond (talk · contribs). Iiii I I I (talk) 08:19, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete. The Google searches are clear that he is not the most notable person called TJ Norris and that at least one other person might have a better claim to this article title. He also does not seem to be more than very minimally notable even if you try to see past that. Adding "artist" to the searches turns up some passing mentions. The only even slightly substantial thing I found was this, which focuses on his appointment as a curator and, even the, its not much. That's nothing like enough. The books, discography and awards are not impressive. The monograph was published through a publisher that does not have an article. Factor in the promotional intent and the past COI editing and... there's no hope for this. --DanielRigal (talk) 11:51, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Quite aside from being created by COIs and SPAs, saved at deletion by SPAs, kept out of one of those all-too-typical headcount over policy 2000s closes, this is a fine example of something I call 0+0+0+0=0. Two dozen casual mentions do not equate to notability. Being published in non-notable, ephemeral publications does not equate to notability. Having one's work displayed in non-notable galleries and museums does not equate to notability. Getting non-notable awards from non-notable groups does not equate to notability. 0+0+0+0=0. Ravenswing 18:01, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Charles Frederic Swigert Jr. Memorial Fountain (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Does not appear in any RS, other than a single entry listing it at the Smithsonian Institute. Should be merged into "Oregon Zoo." PlotinusEnjoyer (talk) 15:10, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Fountain to a Rose (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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No coverage in RS other than entries on the Portland city website and a local blog. WP:RUNOFTHEMILL PlotinusEnjoyer (talk) 20:04, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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David A. Aitken (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Not seeing anything that satisfies WP:BIO. None of the sources appears to be about him, just one of the projects he worked on. Clarityfiend (talk) 18:13, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

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WP: RUNOFTHEMILL PlotinusEnjoyer (talk) 15:33, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Comment WP:RUNOFTHEMILL is an essay and not a sufficient reason for nominating an article for deletion. Please provide policies with guidelines as reasons (such as notability). – The Grid (talk) 16:06, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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• Delete. It's literally a hole in the ground with no significant coverage, other than getting hit by a car once. Astaire (talk) 17:47, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Non-notable. Watering troughs were created all over the world for functional or altruistic reasons. I don't think any are actually notable. This one isn't.   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 18:51, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

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Lacking in real sources for WP:BIO, and no reviews that I can find for his book, Le vaisseau de 74 canons, for WP:AUTHOR. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:40, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

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Mr. Xavier's home does not inherit notability from him. I have been able to find no source that discusses Mr. Xavier or his home other than in passing mention. Please see Talk:Juan Xavier House Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 12:09, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

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As was the case with St. Mark's Episcopal Church, this is a local church with no notability outside of its association with a single event; as such, I don't believe that the reporting on this church's destruction will be enough to support an article in the long term. Sources 3–13, 15, 16, and 18 are purely local articles of WP:ROTM events at the church that provide no notability at all. If the argument were to be made that these sources provide WP:SIGCOV, then nearly every church in the US may as well be notable. Source 1 is an NYT article that mentions the church. Source 2 is an article from a religious organization that reports exclusively on matters that concern its churches and as such cannot be considered an independent source. Source 14 is an LA Times article about the congregations resilience, 17 is a Time article which is basically the same thing, 19 is a Deseret article reporting that the church burned down, while 20 and 21 are similar. The community can decide if these sources are enough to provide long-term notability. AllTheUsernamesAreInUse (talk) 23:03, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Redirect to Eaton Fire#Stuctures destroyed: While I think the coverage in the New York Times and LA Times represents sufficient WP:SIGCOV in independent, reliable sources, I also think the WP:NOPAGE test of WP:GNG is not met since this is clearly a WP:1E situation. As a result, I recommend redirecting to the list of structures destroyed by the Eaton fire. This will preserve the page history should additional SIGCOV unrelated to the fire emerge for a GNG pass as a standalone page. Dclemens1971 (talk) 18:10, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Benison (Beni · talk) 03:32, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - The church has news articles available long before the fire destroyed it, and the church is not simply mentioned in passing in those articles. Z. Patterson (talk) 04:26, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Every one of those are entirely local WP:ROTM sources about community events. As I stated in the nomination I don’t believe these provide notability as every single church in the US probably has similar newspaper histories. AllTheUsernamesAreInUse (talk) 16:31, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @AllTheUsernamesAreInUse: I see now. In that case, redirect to Eaton Fire#Structures destroyed, and possibly discuss the church there. Z. Patterson (talk) 21:42, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @Z. Patterson:

University of the Witwatersrand School of Architecture & Planning (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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I don't see why this school of a university needs its own article. All the sources from the university's website, so basically it's repeating information easily found on the web. It needs third party coverage which is lacking. Fails WP:ORG LibStar (talk) 04:10, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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@LibStar, it sounds like you're judging the article on the basis of its current version, which goes against Wikipedia:Notability#Article content does not determine notability. Did you consider Wikipedia:Merging it to the main university article? WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:52, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Are there third party sources out there that meet WP:ORG? LibStar (talk) 00:06, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I searched [Witwatersrand "School of Architecture & Planning" -wikipedia] in google news and it didn't reveal much useful. Google books is full of 1 line mentions. LibStar (talk) 00:47, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Is there any support for a Merge and what would be the target article?
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• Merge. Largely agree with nom. A cursory search for sources reveals nothing nearing making a separate article for this division of the university. Not too different from the architecture faculties of other similar universities in Australia.  GuardianH  19:40, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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