Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/May Gilbert

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep‎. I see an agreement that the article has sufficient references to establish notability. (non-admin closure) Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 15:08, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

May Gilbert

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Does not meet any of the criteria for WP:ARTIST. Only 1 article links to this. LibStar (talk) 14:03, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Artists, Women, Visual arts, and New Zealand. LibStar (talk) 14:03, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
• Delete The article has no reliable sources and is essentially an orphan with no article linking to it. This evidence suggests the article does not fall on the notability side. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 15:01, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

  That's not true that the article has no reliable sources: there is a link to the Chch Art Gallery website and also the publication "Ink on Paper". MurielMary (talk) 20:52, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

• Keep Her work is in the collections of the Museum of New Zealand and the Christchurch Art Gallery. TheSwamphen (talk) 23:25, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Hey man im josh (talk) 14:36, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

• Keep: Would pass artist notability for being in the collections of two museums as shown, but there is a lack of any kind of sourcing... I don't see books, Jstor, Gscholar or a Getty ULAN listing. Even a .nz websearch doesn't turn up much of anything. Oaktree b (talk) 15:31, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
• Comment - Actually, I do not see that her work is in the Museum of New Zealand. The link leads to a list of photographs taken of her work by the photographer Frank Simon Hofmann. The link to Christchurch Art Gallery describes her as an important member of the contemporary art collective known as the Rutland Group. The Rutland Group does not have an article, however there is a category Category:People associated with the Rutland Group. I am gonna take a minute to look at this topic. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64864575 Might work as a redirect. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:12, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

References

• I have created a quick draft on the Rutland Group. I deduce its focus was on printmaking. I do not have access to the book "We learnt to see :Elam's Rutland Group 1935-1958". I hope that the attendees of Wikipedia:Meetup/Christchurch/Ink on Paper meet-up and MurielMary might take a look and see if this is worth pursuing. It is fine with me if this is determined to be non-notable subject. Hoping that New Zealanders can expand it a bit. I am offering it as an alternative to deletion of May Gilbert. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 19:01, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

• Keep- artist has work in the Christchurch Art Gallery and was profiled in the publication "Ink on Paper". MurielMary (talk) 04:22, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
• Keep this artist article was created as part of the Ink on Paper edit-a-thon. The accompanying publication in the references establishes notability. David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk) 07:30, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
• Keep her inclusion in the Christchurch exhibition and accompanying book Ink on Paper is notable, and the inclusion of photographs of twelve of her works in Te Papa's collection does count for something. DrThneed (talk) 02:25, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
• Keep References used are solid and enough to reach notability standards. If she wasn't notable as a New Zealand printmaker, she wouldn't have been included in a high quality and well researched book and her work would not feature in GLAM collections. Einebillion (talk) 04:40, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

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