Talk:Tara Downs

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... (your reason here) --TayaCornett (talk) 04:12, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello,

To whom it may concern, I was recently informed as to the notification of a " speedy deletion". I was hoping to inquire as to how this article, in where the relevant curators work is hi-lighted in a similar way as to as a number of other professional profiles online is being questioned or deemed irrelevant.

The article details colleagues and contributors, participants in the same profession in a likewise manner in several other wikipedia articles referenced, and I believe that the information is of obvious relevance due to historical research purposes on behalf of my educational institution and for purposes relevant to Canadian Art History.

Please let me know !

Thank you.

@TayaCornett: I've added a reference from a Google News search and removed the speedy deletion tag. I'm still not sure there's enough information to write a full article, but I'll ping my colleagues Megalibrarygirl and Beccaynr and see if they can find anything. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:04, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

I've added five sources that indicate notability in the art world; revision to incorporate more information from the sources and general editing is needed, but there appears to be sustained coverage over time, at minimum due to the impact of the galleries Downs directed and helped establish. Beccaynr (talk) 16:43, 11 March 2021 (UTC) As an update, after revisions and adding more sources, I am further convinced as to sustained and in-depth coverage about Downs. Beccaynr (talk) 18:39, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Beccaynr, I'd quite like to finish cleaning up the article and cite the remaining unsourced claims (not much now), so I can nominate it as a DYK for Women's History Month Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 17:24, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:39, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

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• ... that Tara Downs' first gallery was in a converted paintball studio? Source: "In Toronto, the three founders, all recent graduates from the Ontario College of Art and Design, opened up shop in a giant warehouse that used to be home to a paintball studio. (“It was pretty raw,” Downs said.)" (https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/goodbye-to-yesterday-torontos-tomorrow-gallery-opens-in-new-york-2730/)

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Created by TayaCornett (talk), Beccaynr (talk), and Ritchie333 (talk). Nominated by Ritchie333 (talk) at 21:13, 12 March 2021 (UTC).

Interesting life and work, on good sources, no copyvio obvious. I know you like hooks short, but I think this could be much more interesting and still short if you mentioned "Tomorrow Gallery" - which is a program, and much more interesting than "first gallery" which could be of anything. I'd go and mention that she opened that first in Toronto in a converted paintball studio, and then in New York, but your choice. (I like to give a person a time and a place ... hint, hint.) - If you think mentioning tomorrow might drive readers away, I'll approve the surprise package. - Suggestions for the article: avoid repetition of the NY location in the lead. I'd rather say that she also teaches. Avoid repetition of 2011 in founding and then saying "from 2011 to 2013". (Or do you need extra characters? No.) Try to integrate the one sentence about education in "Life and career", in chronology. Who cares at the end. - Thank you creators for another woman in women's month, - hope it will be displayed in March. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:20, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt, Crikey, I'd completely forgotten about this. Beccaynr, since this is mostly your work, do you want to deal with the suggested hook changes?

• ALT1 ... that Tara Downs co-founded the Tomorrow Gallery in a converted paintball studio in Toronto, before moving to New York? Source: "In Toronto, the three founders, all recent graduates from the Ontario College of Art and Design, opened up shop in a giant warehouse that used to be home to a paintball studio." (https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/goodbye-to-yesterday-torontos-tomorrow-gallery-opens-in-new-york-2730/) created ALT based on Gerda Arendt's suggestions. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 20:12, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

  I like that one, would perhaps say "moved it" instead of just "moved". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:15, 7 April 2021 (UTC)