Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Galleria d'Arte Maggiore

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:05, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Galleria d'Arte Maggiore (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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I don't see how this is notable by our standards. Like many other commercial galleries, it gets a good number of passing mentions, in news as in books, as part of its routine business of buying and selling artworks. There is substantial in-depth coverage in this book, but that is published by Youcanprint and so is not a WP:RS. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:27, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. I think the number of important artists they handle justifies notability (yes I know about NOTINHERITED< but it has to be used with judgement. It primarily means that given a notable gallery, not every artist they handle is notable.Given notable artists, their primary gallery on the other hand is notable. Some commercial galleries do have a quasi-meuseum nature, and this is probably one of them. I' unfortunatley not in a position to look for better sources, so I hope others will help here DGG ( talk ) 02:56, 31 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not entirely sure that I follow your reasoning here, DGG. A car dealer does not become notable because he sells well-known brands of car, a butcher's shop does not become notable because it sells a famous kind of meat, a second-hand charity shop does not become notable because it sells clothes made by famous companies. How is this different?

Anyway, to test the hypothesis that this gallery might be significant in the history of "its" artists, I looked at the biographies in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani of two that the gallery claims to handle, Leoncillo and Morandi. Both pages mention several galleries (La Cometa in Rome and Il Fiore in Florence are mentioned in both), but neither mentions this one. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:12, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that most galleries are not notable,but not based on the above reasoning. Some places do become notable based on what they sell. Yanase car dealership actually has a Wikipedia page here. Schwartz's delicatessen is famous, and notable for its meat. And then there's this large List_of_barbecue_restaurants.104.163.148.25 (talk) 21:29, 12 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Looking at it again, I think that my argument was not correct in this case, and deletion would be appropriate DGG ( talk ) 06:17, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. AllyD (talk) 08:44, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Italy-related deletion discussions. AllyD (talk) 08:44, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: Galleries are in an awkward intermediate position where coverage regarding exhibited and associated artists tends to fall under WP:NOTINHERITED. In this case, Justlettersandnumbers's detailed analysis above has sought to bridge that gap, and my own searches are finding nothing better to indicate notability. AllyD (talk) 09:28, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete available source (in both article and search) do not point to notability.104.163.148.25 (talk) 21:33, 12 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.