Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fikile Magadlela

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Fails WP:ARTIST. A search of gnews and gbooks could find no indepth coverage to meet WP:SIGCOV. LibStar (talk) 23:34, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Visual arts and South Africa. LibStar (talk) 23:34, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:05, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Comment - I am not finding any reliable sources to confirm the biographical information presented in this uncited article. The sources I find are

• https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/south-african-artist-fikile-magadledla-born
• https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/beaded-fikile-magadlela/CQE6qqKpCPtZ7A?hl=en
• https://hair-matters.org/Fikile-Magadlela

He also has a fairly robust entry in [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16211739 Wikidata]. Looks like he made a couple of album covers.

WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:29, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

:Keep: Lots of mentions in Google Books - he seems to have been prominent in the Black Consciousness Movement ("the ultimate exemplar of black radicalism") and as an artist was widely exhibited and his art seems to have been sought after by collectors. The reason why he hasn't been covered extensively on the web could be due to the political marginalisation of the black consciousness movement, which wouldn't have benefitted newspapermen trying to curry favour with the ANC. {{cite book | last=Solomon | first=A. | title=Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change | publisher=Scribner | year=2016 | isbn=978-1-4767-9504-1 | url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9Hr0CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA159 | access-date=2023-09-13}}. Park3r (talk) 02:07, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

::There are lots of mentions in gbooks, but are they WP:SIGCOV? LibStar (talk) 01:48, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 23:43, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

• Keep. Meets WP:BASIC/WP:GNG. Seems to meet WP:ARTIST as well given the depth and breadth of coverage in academic journals more than a decade after the subjects death. Here's a non-exhaustive search that demonstrates N. There's a lot more I didn't pursue in TWL, Google Scholar, and Google Books.
• #Several paragraphs of coverage along with a gallery of subjects's artwork published in Hill, Shannon, 2018, Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art.[https://read-dukeupress-edu.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/nka/article/2018/42-43/196/137256/Creating-ConsciousnessBlack-Art-in-1970s-South?searchresult=1] (on TWL)
• #Same author (Shannon Hill) with much more coverage in a 2015 academic book from University of Minnesota Press, [https://muse-jhu-edu.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/pub/23/monograph/book/40219] (on TWL).
• #*Note this book verifies some biographical details as well such as year of birth and death.
• #*A small fraction of this coverage is noted in an in-depth review of the book by Ciraj Rassool in African Arts [https://muse-jhu-edu.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/pub/6/article/638855] (on TWL)
• #Here's a paper from 2016 by Frieda Hattingh in Afrikaans language in de arte journal that seems to have SIGCOV as well including coverage of artistic style and the influence the subject has had. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/00043389.1995.11761227?needAccess=true] (sadly not on TWL, had to snippet-hunt and then go through Google Translate to get a sense of the coverage)
• #A couple paragraphs of coverage in Steven C. Dubin, 2010, Art in America magazine. [https://eds.s.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&sid=3a827c79-1e49-4eac-b5d7-f3b595488495%40redis] (on TWL)
• #Some coverage in Judy Peter, 2015 Third Text[https://www-tandfonline-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1080/09528822.2015.1076210] (on TWL)

:—siroχo 02:32, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

• Keep, per {{u|siroxo}}'s analysis. ihateneo (talk) 03:04, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

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