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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 22:45, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Terry Watkinson[edit]

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This article has existed for 17 years sourced only to the subjects own website. A search on google showed up some other sites that were basically advertising listings for his work, but no subastantive, indepdent, 3rd-party secondary source coverage. John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:09, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

- for what it is worth, the creator of this article made two eidts ever. Besides creating this article his only other contribution to Wikipedia was adding Watkinson to the list of Canadian painters article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:33, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions. Roller26 (talk) 14:28, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Roller26 (talk) 14:28, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I am finding nothing online for this artist, no reviews or crititcal/analytical articles, no museum collections, nor mentions in books. It might be an autobiography based on the info above of the single purpose editor + one citation to website judging from the article history. Either way, does not meet WP:GNG nor WP:NARTIST criteria for notability. Netherzone (talk) 19:18, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Only source is a link to his website and it's been there since 2007. He doesn't seem to have done anything notable since then, and before that date it's iffy. Oaktree b (talk) 19:52, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete On Newspapers.com I found several one or two sentences on his time as a keyboardist in the band Max Webster. Similarly, there are references to his training as a medical illustrator at the time of later band reunions. Not of it however counts as significant coverage. Curiocurio (talk) 13:42, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect G12 it as a copyvio of http://terrywatkinson.com/bio/ or revdel the text, then create a redirect to Max Webster. https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&title=Terry+Watkinson&oldid=&use_engine=0&use_links=0&turnitin=0&action=compare&url=http%3A%2F%2Fterrywatkinson.com%2Fbio%2F Vexations (talk) 21:38, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment actually, the website biography was copied from Wikipedia, looking at past versions of the website in Wayback Machine. Curiocurio (talk) 00:31, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Do you really think that Watkinson copied his own bio from Wikipedia? There are other explanations. The wayback machine didn't always index every new website immediately. Vexations (talk) 11:54, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the Wikipedia article was close to its current state by 2010, but the biography on his website didn't appear to at least 2015. Curiocurio (talk) 12:19, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Curiocurio, check this diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terry_Watkinson&diff=next&oldid=108757484&diffmode=source It gives the access date for Watkinson's website. It may have been hosted somewhere else. The whois data for terrywatkinson.com gives Creation Date: 2010-07-27T02:16:40, but the access date in the diff is 16 February 2007. Vexations (talk) 12:36, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Point taken. Curiocurio (talk) 13:53, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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