Deletion of The Truth (painting)

Comment: per  everything that is written, does not require an article here...every once in a while common sense has to play a part
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What "Ignore all rules" means (WP:UCS)

Comment: per APK especially, and CoM. I found another RS, the Buffalo Examiner http://www.examiner.com/p-335517~_The_Truth___D_Antuono_Cancels_Unveiling_of_Obama_Painting_Due_to_Public_Outrage.html here with the title: "'The Truth': D'Antuono Cancels Unveiling of Obama Painting Due to Public Outrage". Reuters, the Washington Times, the National Review, and the LA Times are clearly mainstream, multiple, independent and reliable sources and therefore satisfies |notability. The NR cite is an article in a conservative but still mainstream RS; the LA Times cite is a piece, not a mention; and Reuters is a major and respected news service with more than a mention. The Washington Times is not a lot more than a mention, but at 168 words is clearly more, so it qualifies. They all add up to more than sufficient RS and it's clearly not a . Also not an orphan, and we can't speedy delete when there are keep votes. I'm not sure about the cat, have to research that, but it's not the subject of this AfD
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N||WP:ONEEVENT)

Comment: as non-notable, per  and 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS||WP:ONEEVENT)

Comment: per nom, author. Most references are rehashes of the press release. Many aren't even in English, which would seem to be a  problem. The artist isn't notable and the event never happened. Recommend speedy since author agrees with deletion
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:NONENG)

Comment: Newross keeps making reference to press releases as if they somehow poison all the sources. When Microsoft issues a press release about a new operating system (eg - Vista), that's news. When the White House issues a press release on the financial crisis, that's news. And once published in a RS, they are both acceptable here, for the same reason. They have been vetted.  The White House Press Secretary|Press Secretary is a glorified publicist for the White House and the administration, spin doctoring with the best of them. What newspapers and journalists do, as independent, reliable, and neutral analysts and publishers of information, is to fact check the information and apply editorial oversight regardless of the origin of the information. Be it from Bernie Madoff, the White House, the man on the street, or a publisher of PR. That vetting process makes it a reliable source and that's why they are secondary sources. APK is absolutely correct in his arguments on blogs specific to this issue. Unreliable and unacceptable blogs are those that anyone can edit without any editorial oversight, for example reader comments attached to articles or opinion pieces. These cited newspaper "blogs" (eg - National Review and LA Times) are written by professional journalists as part of their job and are under editorial oversight, and are therefore |reliable sources. Un-vetted and unexamined PR is, I agree, usually unacceptable, except in relation to its self. The RS citations provided in the article and here more than satisfy any reasonable requirement for |verifiability. I have seen articles kept at AfD with considerably less RS provided. The press release and blog oppositional arguments should be rejected as not compelling, and not grounded in policy or guidelines. If the only sources were the press releases, and the showing was canceled, then I would be voting to delete also. The outrage as reliably reported made this notable, not the PR
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS||WP:V)

Comment: per  unless or until the artist himself is worth an article (that survives AfD).  Possibly '''speedy delete''' since creator of article has supported its removal (because of non-event of its "planned" exhibition
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)