Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Angelo Valentino

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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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 12:13, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Angelo Valentino

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A terribly hush-hush photographer, a "cult pioneer" whose "compelling" works "are often difficult to acredit due to the fact he works under various pseudonyms and is, even by the standard of his contemporary Banksy very elusive and deliberately obscure". Well all right: Banksy's elusiveness does not detract from the notability of his work, and for that matter you can say exactly the same thing about Bill Shakespeare. Trouble is, that's where the resemblances end: with the possible exception of some minor celebs, the world seems to have taken no notice of Valentino's oeuvre. We see a notice advertising his exhibition, but no critical notice of it. We see what must be one of the least informative Amazon pages ever, for a book (about which we learn next to nothing) by one Angelo Valentino. And that's it. The cult pioneeringness, etc., is not verifiable. -- Hoary (talk) 15:16, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete, no reliable evidence of notability. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 15:19, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. You want obscurity, you've got it. Fails WP:N Xymmax (talk) 15:35, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete and clean up all references to him recently placed on Wiki. We have serious doubts this person exists at all, let alone enough evidence for a Wiki article. And if the person so much wants obscurity, why is he someone trying so hard to convince us that he should have an article on Wiki? SilkTork *SilkyTalk 16:43, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletions. – David Eppstein (talk) 17:47, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Who? Delete as non-notable and, judging from the article, impossible to verify. Tony Fox (arf!) 21:27, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Don't you guys read the art press at all? Angelo Valentino is not a person, he does not exist. "He" is the name used by Banksy for photographic work.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.149.127.137 (talk • contribs) 14:35, 30 November 2007
    • And where in the art press may we read this? -- Hoary 14:57, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete This article should be banished to the obscurity it so richly deserves. TheMindsEye 01:33, 2 December 2007 (UTC)


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