Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mambo (artist)
I'll wait to see if anyone else turns up further sources, or can more closely scrutinize the ones I've found, and compare to policy. The creator of the article should have done all this, of course, but evidently wasn't aware of the necessity... I spent maybe ninety minutes and couldn't see anything that ''unequivocally'' meets , but want to give time for possible further developments before !voting. '''(1)''' http://www.amazon.com/Alias-MAMBO-Flavien-Demarigny/dp/2859800050/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298061026&sr=8-1-fkmr0 Amazon has the 2005 book about him, "Alias MAMBO", but lists the subject himself as the author. The book was published by what appears, at my first inspection, to be a tiny publisher with a gallery, or perhaps a gallery with a captive publishing arm, Kitchen93. ( http://www.vingtparismagazine.com/2009/01/kitchen-93.html This was the most substantial information I saw about this publisher. ) Some additional investigation is probably in order to determine the nature of this book more precisely. '''(2)''' There was one hit I found for http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/21/fashion/thursdaystyles/21TSHIRTS.html?pagewanted=all a NY Times article, but it barely mentions our subject; just the briefest reference. '''(3)''' There was http://www.ecrans.fr/Groland-plonge-dans-la-high-tech,10755.html this article, in French, that mentions the subject, but seemingly only in passing. My French is very poor, but the article appears also only to include a mention of the subject. Perhaps someone who's fluent could take a look? '''(4)''' There's a Chicago Tribune article that seems to me to be the most unequivocal source I've seen re a claim toward possible notability. Its online access is somewhat convoluted. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24102865.html?dids=24102865:24102865&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+20%2C+1994&author=Marc+Spiegler%2C+Special+to+the+Tribune.+Marc+Spiegler+is+an+editor+at+New+City.&pub=Chicago+Tribune+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=RISE+ABOVE+IT+FRENCH+MURALISTS+AND+LOCAL+PAINTERS+HELP+COUNSELING+CENTER+ON+THE+NORTHWEST+SIDE+SEND+A+MESSAGE+TO+TEENS+AND+THE+COMMUNITY&pqatl=google Here's a free abstract, and http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-11-20/features/9411200481_1_mural-graffiti-artists-collective here's page one of an alternate, non-paywall access route to the same article, but it's chopped up into five pages with (evidently) no single-page view available; the subsequent pages can be accessed sequentially, however. The article is about the five-member group of artists our subject works with, named "La Force Alphabetick" or just "La Force", for short, and about the man himself, of course, as one of the five members, in the context of the group's creation of a mural in Chicago. This will need closer review ( I have no more time for it today, and can't promise I'll get back to this; this kind of art isn't really my "thing" at all ) to judge how it contributes to notability, but here's everything this Chicago Tribune article has to say about "Mambo" directly (as opposed to what it has to say about the other group members, the way they work together, etc) along with some excerpts that may speak to his notability indirectly
— NONE, NONE
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:ARTIST (Wikipedia:Notability)