Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adrian Piper
I understand Ms. Piper's frustration with a badly written article and if what we had was a copyvio, then obviously we need to rewrite this. However, Adrian Piper is a ''major'' artist and is thus a public figure. It would be somewhat akin to Lady Gaga asking us to delete her article because she didn't like what was written. I don't mean to overstate this, but we're not talking about a figure of minor note. Adrian Piper is an artist that is part of art history, has volumes written about her, has been in major museum exhibitions and so on. Even if this article were deleted for copyright reasons, a new article would need to be written in its place. She is a high-profile and public figure and cannot expect to not have a Wikipedia presence nor can she expect to control the content of a Wikipedia article, other than to have an expectation of a neutral and well-sourced article per . If you read her bio on her http://www.adrianpiper.com/biography.shtml website you can see that not only does she easily pass basic notability requirements for Wikipedia, she has chosen a public life and cannot simply ask to have her Wikipedia article deleted. Yes, this needs a complete rewrite but other than that, this is an obvious keep
— User:Freshacconci, 02:11, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BLP (Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons)