Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josephine Durkin
Fails  as academic (a lot of academics or artists-in-residence at universities are awarded fellowships - nothing remarkable about this) and I can't find substantive evidence for encyclopedic notability as an artist. http://www.google.com/search?hs=v1U&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22josephine+durkin%22+artist&btnG=Search About 300 google hits - she seems to have had some moderate success but I don't see anything that indicates encyclopedic notability. Given that she completed grad school in 2005, has had only shown her pieces in one non-US exhibition (with the US exhibition participation almost all in galleries local to the schools she attendedhttp://www.josephinedurkin.com/resume.htm) - I'd say it's too early for an article on her here. Zero hits in Google Bookshttp://books.google.com/books?q=%22josephine+durkin%22&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0; Zero relevant hits in Google Scholarhttp://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22josephine+durkin%22&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search. About 9 hits in the Factiva news and magazine database - about 2 or 3 press releases; the rest were 2-3 line mentions in local event calendar listings
— User:Bwithh, 07:31, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)