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The result was delete.  Sandstein  19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yuri Avalishvili (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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Can't see how this person passes WP:ARTIST - difficult to understand much of the content that may hint towards notability, but (as a basic test), the only non ex-soviet bloc organisation to engage with him (the boston one) doesn't seem notable in itself, and a google search of subject + gallery throws up no results (also note entire list is unreferenced).
almost no references. SPA/COI editor. horrendously written article. orphan article since its creation. many other issues. Rayman60 (talk) 22:56, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 23:31, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Georgia (country)-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 23:31, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 23:32, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment There is a significant claim to notability that would satisfy WP:ARTIST. If Avalishvili's work has indeed been collected by the Art Museum of Georgia and the National Gallery of Armenia, 4(d) would be met. I have not been able to find any sources that corroborate that claim, mostly because I understand neither [Georgian nor Armenian. Both museums have a searchable database of their collections, so perhaps someone who can read those languages has better luck than I did. If I have to go by the sources available in English, I cannnot find Avalishvili him or the Museum of Modern Renaissance notable. The Museum of Modern Renaissance seems to have anticipated this, as their website proudly states "Modern Renaissance is not to be found in any Encyclopedia of Art"^[1]. Perhaps it should remain so. Mduvekot (talk) 00:23, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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• Comment - I tried looking through google to help with sources, but found nothing with my limited English-dependent search abilities. I do assume there might be some good coverage in another language, unfortunately I'm not good at guessing which translation of his name to use for a search term in those cases. Yvarta (talk) 01:12, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong delete It's an extremely interesting case. So, I think we do have a good reasons to delete in article. First of all it does look like a PR article - an author's only work, which is the same for Russian wikipedia, in which creator with the same user name made the only contribution. The Russian article is also of very poor quality, tagged as non satisfying Wikipedia standards. Second, taking into account all the claims of notability in Russia, including competitions and gallery shows, I'd expected to find quite a lot of sources on Russian, which I didn't. Almost no mentions in any secondary sources, not related to PR articles from galleries. Third, for a such celebrated artist it's quite a funny to have a site, made on schoolchild level and located on narod.ru platform - a simple amateur website platform for Russian internet. And the last one - the claim for notability is made by showing permanent collections - on his site there are scans of documents, showing him making donations to Art Museum of Georgia and the National Gallery of Armenia. A bit of a weak claim for notability. Arthistorian1977 (talk) 11:50, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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