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editI removed the banner on Notability on Tito Moretti. I recently criticized User:GiantSnowman for inappropriately deleting an article using PROD or Wikipedia:Proposed deletion, when I had opposed such a deletion. This did not follow Wikipedia procedures.
Now I find that nearly all my submissions including this one have notability banners.
I am sorry, but anyone who has a public retrospective exhibit funded by the city in which he worked nearly a hundred years after his death has more notability, for example, than the hundreds of thousands of soccer athletes listed in Wikipedia. This is one of User:GiantSnowman's main interest. This is an example of Editors gone wild. Tito Moretti's artwork was a major "permanent" modification of the Perugia Cathedral that has been standing nearly a thousand years. To me that is far more notability than fancy footwork or goals, as an example. User:GiantSnowman's recent editing does not follow guidelines, and seems to be prodded by some animus.
Giantsnowmen also claims this is "poorly referenced", but the article references three independent sources that cite Moretti, including Angelo de Gubernatis, a writer regarding 19th century authors who had been recognized by the Encyclopedia Brittanica, 11th edition. How does that make this "poorly referenced"?
It is this type of mindset, that criticism of one action leads to the editor User:GiantSnowman to randomly or inappropriately place notability and refimprove banners on my submissions when I criticize him. I am trying to improve the coverage by Wikipedia of 19th century Italian artists, not only the few main ones in the main cities, but provincial ones. I typically seek to find two different citations of their work in non-commercial sites, but I give more weight to citations that have withstood the attention of time. Again we are not talking of contemporary painters, but artists, many of whom are not alive and lived a hundred years ago. Anyone of us should be so lucky to have our name cited in any way, a hundred years hence.
Ultimately, I am going to request that User:GiantSnowman have supervision over these edits, since they clearly changed in frequency since I pointed out his failure to follow the normal procedure for deletion. Rococo1700 (talk) 14:28, 9 August 2013 (UTC)