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@Elinruby: I'll expand, but first I want to check if there are English language sources. There should be, at least for the works located in the US. Conveniently, I'll be at the NYC Editathon at the Metropolitan Museum tomorrow. Any other artists that I should check there? DGG ( talk ) 01:10, 21 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@DGG: that are at the Metropolitan Museum, not offhand but I'll keep it in mind. So far what I see is a big clump of articles about individual paintings that hasn't been looked at much, mostly however in Estonia and Bulgaria and places like that. Mostly in the national museum, though; you said that was a consideration for notability, right? I am not sure what to think of these articles. Some of them are interesting but mostly they say who created the piece, how big it was, and sometimes describe the painting scupture or whatever and/or mention the last sale price if it was high. Some of the articles I cannot decipher, and I am really good at deciphering....some of the articles were written by socks. I am not sure what the socks got out of this but anyway. A few were no-brainers like that Goya in the National Gallery of Art (I think it was). Metropolitan is modern art though right? We have quite a few contemporary artists that need references and haven't established notability -- and someone was complaining about the artist's gallery being one of the references also.
If there was a way to check these for promo/notability and make sure they are something to keep? I am thinking of making a list of these and also of the "fort of x" articles, which will all need at least an edit. However I have already worked on articles about the fortifications of Paris and such, and if anything that stuff in the north was even more important and should be wikilinked into the article for the Maginot Line and whatever other history and archaeology articles apply. I have some other thoughts but I will put them on the project talk page Elinruby (talk) 21:29, 21 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
By the way, please do as you think best with this one. I am sort of boggling at trying to evaluate it. Incidentally, am starting a list on your talk page of contemporary art articles still on the list -- perhaps you can run the names past someone there?
Museum of Modern Art is NYC's main specialized modern art museum-- Metropolitan is comprehensive. Anything in the permanent collection of either of them is unquestionably notable, and it's also the case at least one level down: major state/provincial/city art museums. Some people go down further--even so far as "any public museum" and most afds in this area have been very inclusive. DGG ( talk ) 01:30, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
