Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chip zdarsky
I can't speak for everyone here, but I can certainly say that the last thing I'd want to do is discourage someone from continuing work here, especially around under-represented areas. I can certainly understand your frustration, and we all started at some point. I've had editors question the notability of an artist simply because they'd never heard of them (again, that would be a bad argument to make in a discussion and a good administrator would ignore it). What you are looking for is substantial third-party coverage. Yes, he's published in a national newspaper, but so are many others who do not have articles. What we need is coverage in publications and other media that have no connection to the subject. Is there any magazine coverage, articles and so on? Other newspapers? Substantial TV coverage? The two main guidelines we go by are |notability and a subcategory on |creative professionals. If the closing administrator decides on delete, the article can be |userfied so you can keep it and work on improving it. Articles can always be recreated as long they are improved in some way. I'd also suggest working on a more general article on the Toronto comics scene if there's a great deal of coverage out there. This may be a more successful way of writing about this topic and from there you can branch out to individual artists
— User:Freshacconci, 20:40, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:NOTE||WP:CREATIVE||WP:userfy (Wikipedia:Notability)