Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joshua Davis (designer)

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The result was keep. postdlf (talk) 18:26, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Joshua Davis (designer)

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virtually no references to support an article with questionable notability Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (Talk) 10:33, 27 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep—I was able to find a few sources to establish notability. Wired is the best of the lot. Lesser Cartographies (talk) 18:21, 29 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Essmaker, Ryan; Essmaker, Tina (September 4, 2013). "Joshua Davis (Interview)". The Great Discontent. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
Finck, Nick (November 14, 2000). "Joshua Davis (Interview)". Digital Web Magazine. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
Kirsner, Scott (March 2006). "The Chaos of Joshua Davis". Wired. Retrieved 29 July 2014.

Ah, great, progress! Is this enough to substantiate what's in the article? --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (Talk) 19:22, 29 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Scalhotrod. I was just doing a quick check for citations, but my impression is that most of what's in the article can be sourced. Lesser Cartographies (talk) 07:10, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Great, so who is going to fill in the citations? --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (Talk) 07:21, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WHAT THE HELL...this reads like some guy's resume...obviously written by Joshua Davis himself. Look at this fluff...it's total bullshit, he makes himself sound like some kind of super human. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.143.57.101 (talk) 02:44, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

So is that a vote for Delete? --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (Talk) 17:06, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep—I was also able to find that the biography was written from several online sources / museum and publication

Lupton, Ellen. "Design Life Now". Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
Culatti, Valentina. "Dynamic Abstraction, the beauty of randomness by Joshua Davis".
"Design at the Design Museum". Design Museum.

Keep per GNG -- GreenC 02:21, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DELETE - This is just a person's resume - it does not deserve a wikipedia article. It is extremely subjective and blatantly obvious that it was written by the person himself - Joshua Davis. At the very least the fluff needs to be deleted - only facts please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.143.57.101 (talk) 04:06, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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