Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Municipal Art Gallery of Ioannina

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The result was keep. article's been improved since nomination, (non-admin closure) –Davey2010^Talk 01:54, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Municipal Art Gallery of Ioannina

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I can find multiple mentions of it on general sites which list all possible tourist attractions in an area, but nothing which indicates notability. It is often listed simply as 'Municipal Gallery of Ioannina'. There's no Greek-lang WP article on it, but there may be Greek sources I've missed. This has been tagged for notability for 8 years, hopefully we can get it resolved one way or the other. Boleyn (talk) 09:38, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Someone who understands Greek might be able to indicate whether this is the same as the Municipal Ethnographic Museum of Ioannina (which according to wikipedia houses photographs and paintings). However, I haven't visited Greece for years and never got past first base with the language when I did.

If Municipal Art Gallery of Ioannina is a separate institution, I wonder if a more constructive solution might be to enter a request at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Greece for someone to extend the entry.

Regards Charles01 (talk) 12:38, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Charles01, a request was put in to Wikiproject Greece about this and several similar articles on Greek museums and galleries, as it was on Wikiproject Museums. It didn't get any response and it's been months now. As it stands, we can't verify any notability, no one has found supporting sources and no notability is even asserted in article. I Googled the addresses, the Municipal Gallery is not the same as the Municipal Ethnographic Museum. Boleyn (talk) 13:23, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Noted. Thanks. Success. Charles01 (talk) 15:05, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arts-related deletion discussions. /wiae /tlk 15:45, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Museums and libraries-related deletion discussions. /wiae /tlk 15:45, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Greece-related deletion discussions. /wiae /tlk 15:45, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Boleyn: You might want to look at the article again.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:59, 14 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pinging me and well done to the editor who worked so hard on this. I can't read the Greek, but for the rest, it looks more convincing but still to pretty much just be listed on websites showing places people can go, not necessarily reliable sources or in-depth coverage. Boleyn (talk) 19:16, 14 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Discussed in depth by various independent sources. A search on the Greek form of the name would have been appropriate before nominating for deletion. A very active gallery with an impressive collection of works by prominent Greek artists and frequent special exhibitions. Aymatth2 (talk) 15:28, 15 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. With all credit to Aymatth2 who did the Lazarus job on it. Regards Charles01 (talk) 15:49, 15 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Aymatth2. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:07, 15 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Boleyn: If you still seriously think it's not notable you're wasting everybody's time. Again I repeat, AFD is not an expand upon demand service. It's not the way to get all of those Greek museums expanded.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:07, 16 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dr. Blofeld, I seem to be in the minority on this one, but that's OK. I trust the AfD process to come out with a consensus on each one. Several of the museum/gallery articles have been deleted, one at AfD at the moment seems non-notable and that's the way its AfD is heading. You know well I have no objection to stubs, including ones as short as these, as I have created thousands of stubs myself. I have little interest in whether it is expanded (it's always nice, but not something I'm concerned about). My concern is its notability, which has been in question for an extremely long time. FOr the third time, I repeat that I am not convinced on this one, but it's OK with me that others disagree. Boleyn (talk) 12:32, 16 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Boleyn: Have you looked in on the article in the last 12 hours?♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:39, 16 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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