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Alison Dunlop

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Struggling to find independent in-depth coverage in reliable sources - lack of WP:SIGCOV. References provided are either mentions-in-passing or rely almost exclusively on company produced material and/or quotations. Edwardx (talk) 22:51, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete article refs are weak and do not establish notability. A search turns up nothing of interest. Non-notable vanity page.104.163.153.162 (talk) 00:08, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Just needs work per our editing policy. There's more material out there including Who's Who in Art . Andrew D. (talk) 12:38, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Who's Who in Art looks like a sketchy source. Their web site has a submission form. Thjey have one editor who compiles the entire book. Looks like a vanity press or vanity business, essentially. Just saying.198.58.161.137 (talk) 10:08, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

...and Saatchi Art, Les expositions de l'année au Canada / The Year's Exhibitions in Canada 1983, Galleryheinzel. Perhaps I am insufficiently metropolitan but where I am from, exhibiting at Sabhal Mor Ostaig would be considered of rather more worth than some of the trivia that populates our BLPs. Ben Mac Dui 19:05, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Saatchi art is a wiki-style unreliable reference. Sabhal Mòr Ostaig us a university, which is an easy/low-quality exhibition.104.163.150.32 (talk) 23:57, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I am genuinely attempting to learn something useful here. Can you say which you think are the more prestigious galleries for an artist working in the Highlands beyond Inverness Museum and Art Gallery and say Kilmorack in Beauly? Ben Mac Dui 10:22, 14 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No idea on the galleries. I was merely pointing out that Sabhal Mor Ostaig is not a gallery but rather a school whose main business seems to be Gaelic instruction. (Cool language!) I see zero hits for an sort of gallery there when I search. It follows that a school of the Gaelic language is probably not a particularly selective or notable venue for an art exhibition. Notable venues have professional curatorial staff, dedicated exhibition space, publications and of course, a web site.198.58.161.137 (talk) 10:01, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I haven't done a good search for potential sources, so I'm not giving my Keep/Delete yet, but the current sources are insufficient to establish notability. We have a number of commercial galleries, cottishartpaintings.co.uk, gullaneartgallery.co.uk, panterandhall.com, and a "a unique tool that enables you to create beautiful 3D showcases of your art to impress art lovers and collectors", kunstmatrix.com. The Scotsman would have been an excellent source, if the article had been about our subject. The piece in ross-shirejournal.co.uk is the only article that approaches something like critical attention, but it is clear from the article itself that the award, despite the fact that the Ross-Shire journal calls it a "a prestigious prize", the Art Centre Kelty, Bespoke Framing Award is in fact a very minor award. WP:ARTISTS requires "significant critical attention", and I don't see that (yet). Mduvekot (talk) 02:05, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete lack of the qulity, reliable indepth sources needed to show notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:54, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]