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The result was no consensus. (non-admin closure) Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 10:25, 25 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Jean-Michel Coulon[edit]

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Interesting and peculiar maybe, but surely fails WP:ARTIST TheLongTone (talk) 13:52, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. AllyD (talk) 15:28, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of France-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 23:05, 4 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as nothing at all to suggest they were collected by any noting museums or anything otherwise convincing, delete as there's simply nothing to keep regarding notability. SwisterTwister talk 07:16, 8 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Jean-Michel Coulon did two exhibitions at the "galerie Jeanne Bucher", with no doubt the most famous gallery in France for the "new School of Paris". Very few painters managed to exhibit in this gallery and all of them, except Jean-Michel Coulon who kept his work secret thereafter, are well-known today. You can find the record of all those exhibitions on the website of the gallery. The first exhibition was done with painters which are all famous today, as mentioned in the Wikipedia article. The guest book of the second exhibition, only dedicated to JM Coulon, shows that many great artists went to see his work: Rothko, Lanskoy, Deyrolle, Arnal, Vieillard, Szenes and Vieira da Silva. Feel free to call the Jeanne Bucher gallery itself to check this information, they have this guest book with the signatures of those painters. If someone like Rothko thought that it was worth visiting the exhibition of JM Coulon, knowing how difficult Rothko was, I guess JM Coulon deserves an article on wikipedia. JM Coulon died recently, there will be probably more to hear about him in the next few years if his relatives decide to unveil his work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thehomard08 (talk • contribs) 12:21, 10 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Those arguments are essentially inherited. As I said, I think this is interesting, unlike most Wikipedia articles (which tend to be on Azerbajani footballers or Norwegian "death metal" bands, or the like). However I don't think the references establish notability; however prestigious a commercial gallery is, they remain commercial organisations. The refs prove that he had an exhibition, but this is not enough to satisfy WP:ARTIST. I'd consider changing my "vote" to userfy to give you some time to come up with more substantial refs... obits would possibly suffice if the publication is solid enough.TheLongTone (talk) 14:25, 10 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete I'm curious to know where all the information is coming from for the page, as I cannot find any refs online or in Google books. Books? Where are the refs for those books? For an artist who has been dead this long, there should be ample references in art history sources. As there are essentially none, he fails WP:GNG. If Picasso had kept all his paintings mostly hidden from the world and only done three or four shows in his life, he wouldn't have a Wikipedia page either.HappyValleyEditor (talk) 07:00, 22 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep but tentative. The english article is a direct translation of the french article. I can find some references in french, but not a lot, but that could be because my french is almost zero ! I suggest we get a french reader to comment. GNG should not mean only english GNG ! How do we ping Category:User fr-N ? Aoziwe (talk) 12:51, 22 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

the best way to do that is to move it to draft space. DGG ( talk ) 01:06, 23 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.