Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barbara Meneley
There is some in-depth coverage of this artist in a local newspaper, for instance http://leaderpost.com/entertainment/local-arts/barbara-meneleys-prairie-history-redux-is-an-artistic-reflection-of-saskatchewans-complex-history. If we had more sources like this, from a wider range of higher-profile publications, I think this could be a keep, but I searched but couldn't find them. Instead we have (no doubt added in good faith by new editors who didn't know better) a lot of : material by the subject rather than about the subject or her works, exhibit announcements rather than exhibit reviews, multiple copies of the same text in differently-published exhibit announcements indicating that it is most likely from the artist rather than written independently, etc. I don't think it's enough for . And although I am sympathetic to the idea that we should be nice to new editors and/or try to combat systemic bias, I don't think that filling out our categories with low-notability articles is the right way to do that. The lesson for future edit-a-thons should be: put more care into the selection of topics rather than encouraging new editors who don't know our standards to pick topics which are likely to be quickly deleted
— User:David, 06:53, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:WIKIPUFFERY||WP:ARTIST (Wikipedia:Wikipuffery)