Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Red Barn Gallery

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. Several substantial pieces of coverage specifically about the gallery itself, and multiple pieces of incidental coverage relating to exhibitions therein, appear to lead to a consensus to keep. ~ mazca ^talk 20:34, 9 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Red Barn Gallery

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Non-notable photo gallery. Originally the article was tagged for speedy under WP:CSD#A7, but then a claim of notability was made by the addition of a "notable exhibitions" section. However, the notability of the exhibition, nor of the exhibiting photographer, has not been established. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 20:48, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Photography-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:31, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Northern Ireland-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:31, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Article creator seems to have missed the point of what counts as notability in Wikipedia. In order for the exhibitions to be considered notable, I'd want to see evidence of notability after the event - with the two exhibition in 2009 and 2010, it's too early to tell. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 07:17, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The article makes the big claim that 7000 people came to one exhibition; and until reliable evidence can be found for this, it merits a FACT tag. That claim aside, what's written about the place is minor and for the most part already sourced. The exhibitions listed are indeed of works by redlinked photographers, but a major reason for this is en:WP's godawful coverage of photographers (a number of photographers with Magnum have yet to have even the most perfunctory articles, so there's little hope for genuine if smaller stars in the firmament). The Red Barn Gallery is a regular partner of Polish Cultural Week (codeveloped by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute); exhibitions held in it have been written up in reliable sources. This is all we need. Unless, that is, we demand the kind of notability seen by being written up later in books -- which would handily reduce the number of list-worthy exhibitions to a mere handful; a splendid notion if your goal is to chuck virtually all photography out of en:WP. -- Hoary (talk) 10:17, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep – I looked at only 3 of the sources cited in the article. Each of them lead to a short article written about the gallery itself. Since the topic of this article has received significant, non-trivial coverage in at least 3 reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it should be presumed to satisfy the inclusion criteria. --Griseum (talk) 00:51, 1 July 2010 (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.