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To Whom It May Concern: I am new Wiki editor from Venezuela working to translate many pages of photograpers into Spanish. I came across this page via the Spanish Wikipedia page already established, and I have checked into the sources to verify if the issues of notability were valid. I’d like to see this page stick around, as I’m an avid fan and praticioners of street photography and this’s guy’s effort to expand on such a global level, but I will admit that the conflict of interest should be delt with. I found in GUP Magazine (Issue #25, June-July 2010) read that the subject is: “an innovative American global street photographer, and a notorious frequent visitor to the streets of the world’s major hotspots.” (GUP 25). And after a little google looking, found that the photographer was also featured in the George Eastman House/Sotheby’s History of Photography exhibition. Also, he seems to be in quite a few museums notably the Oklahoma City Muesuem of Art and the New Oreleans Museum of Art. I eMailed the Gary Smith from his website about the conflict of interest, and he directed me toward the original writer, Sarah Stern, a former student of his. While being his student, she is biased, I believe most of the original propaganda style of this article has been deleted and would encourage others to continue editing the page—yet not deleting. I have gone back into the time-line and deleted projects that seemed to be irrelevant and promotional in nature. Gustavo Gustavoepb

This page is a mess. I'm going to go through and try to take out the propaganda style of writing. Suggestions anyone? Thecatsmeow42 (talk) 19:07, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What is conflict of interest? Specifically, what is my conflict of interest? I've read the article that was sent to me on conflict of interest and could not find anything which applied to me. Sarahstern (talk) 15:25, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a connection to the Sarah Stern Agency that you wrote a reference to in this article? Are you the same Sarah Stern that Gary Mark Smith wrote about on his blog? Either of these connections would constitute a COI and mean that you should refrain from editing this article. TheMindsEye (talk) 15:39, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This article was created by Gary Mark Smith (Sarahstern), the person that it is about. See Wikipedia:Your first article where it states that "Do not create pages about yourself..." The user name he used to create this article is the same fellow at Commons, Sarahstern [1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.2.177.244 (talk) 15:58, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi MindsEye! I'm new to Wikipedia and trying to build my resume with editing. I tried to go in and take out some of the issues which are flagged, and wanted to help get rid of the ones on top. What else should be done or can I go ahead and take them off? Thanks so much!!!!!!!!!! Janet35marie (talk) 02:48, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Smith’s street photography books"

I'd never heard of Smith. I read that he has a number of street photography books out. I'd never heard of the publisher (where specified) of any.

Worldcat doesn't seem to have heard of him either.

Please specify the ISBN of each publication, if there is an ISBN. And if there isn't, then the OCLC. Thank you. -- Hoary (talk) 04:22, 25 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

They seem to be self-published, straight-to-Kindle, etc. -- Hoary (talk) 14:41, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Is this article worth salvaging?

Is this article worth salvaging? It seems curiously full of garbage. Example:

Although called the godfather of [[citizen journalism]]<ref name="ReferenceC"/> for his innovative but risky historical access street photography technique, Smith has furthermore emerged among contemporary street photographers as the pioneer who advanced street photography to a global range.<ref>Lyon, Kaley (2008-11-15) Globe-trotting Street Photographer Brings Eye for Detail to Hays http://www.hdnews.net/Story/artist111908 Hays Daily News (illustrated).</ref>

ReferenceC is elsewhere identified as this. No mention within it of godfathers or citizen journalism.

Innovation and risk aside, what on earth could the "historical access" part of innovative but risky historical access street photography technique mean?

I have no idea what "advancing street photography to a global range" might mean, other than that this person has done street photography in lots of different countries. (I can think of other people who have done this.) If this is what it means, then this or similar is what it should say. If it instead means something else, then what? The link is dead. The page is not at the Wayback Machine. The Hays Daily News seems an unlikely arbiter of photographic significance.

As I go through this article I get the impression that the content is mostly flimflam. One for deletion, perhaps? (Comments, TheMindsEye?) -- Hoary (talk) 14:41, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Today's flimflam reduction. (Please read the edit summary.) -- Hoary (talk) 00:59, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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