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Well done for creating this article on somebody who is, as you say, an important painter. Surprising that there wasn't an article on him, but proper modern art is often badly covered on Wikipedia. Joe Tilson only got an article a couple of months ago.TheLongTone (talk) 23:23, 20 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

...I've stuck in mentions of his retrospective at the Tate, Venice Biennale show & holdings in the Tate & MOMA collections, which should see off this ridiculous nomination for deletion.TheLongTone (talk) 00:39, 21 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Ok thank you for your feedbackDevereux1978 (talk) 14:23, 28 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

The same considerations also apply to Josephine Kane (which I've just come across), of course. I've removed the non-free text instead of (as I would normally do) requesting speedy deletion. Except that there's more: the problem there is that, as the page stands, there is nothing whatsoever to indicate that she is notable by our standards for academics. To demonstrate notability you will need to add a good number of independent reliable sources that discuss her or her work. And I don't want to be alarmist, but you probably need to do so quite quickly, or the article will not survive. It's a quite different situation from, say, the Nin book, which has been widely quoted and discussed in learned literature, and so is incontrovertibly notable. Biography is not an easy area to work in here, and biography of living people is particularly tough (mostly for a lot of very good reasons). Please feel free to ask, here if you like, if ever you have questions or would like advice. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:56, 28 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

Right I see, thank youDevereux1978 (talk) 19:01, 28 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Just a small comment (cf. here): the reference at the influences section links to something like a mirror page of Wikipedia (i,e, to a copy of itself), so it is not such a good reference. I believe it is possible to find a ref. for the comparison to Greene and Bernanos in one of the monographs on Boell; on the other hand, parts such as "He was deeply affected..." would be somewhat hard to reference.

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