Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lyn Ott

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The result was delete. Tone 07:46, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Lyn Ott

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I am struggling to confirm his notability. I can see mirrors of our article (or bits of it) but little else. I would have thought that someone who was suffering from a degenerative eye condition and engaged with art would attract a lot of attention if their life was notable. The sources in the article are self-published or from the cult/sect/religion/whatever related to Meher Baba, the premises of which seem likely to be the collections "around the world" to which the article refers. We say that one of his writings - Journey Out of Darkness - was not published but simultaneously cite it, which is confusing although I did find what may be the thing here. There was a (now dead) link to South Carolina Commissions for the Blind but that seems to have been to verify that the SCCB exists, not that Ott was there. All a bit of a mess, I'm afraid, and probably the result of a creator with some sort of Meher Baba COI. Sitush (talk) 07:27, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 07:42, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 07:42, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I searched by his full name, Lynfield George Ott, on newspapers.com and found one small article announcing that he had won an award. The article mentioned that he went by the alias Lynot. I searched under Lynot and found nothing. Netherzone (talk) 14:25, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I cannot find enough sourcing to indicate he meets GNG.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 15:31, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Another search brought up a few articles (reviews of group shows) that mention him. All local to Woodstock, NY. A review of a group show in the Williamsport Sun Gazette (Pennsylvania) mentions that he showed at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC in 1954. Nothing in the Archives of American Art nor in the Corcoran’s collections or library search tool. It seems that he was a regional artist who showed in group exhibitions, but that's not enough to pass WP:NARTIST. Netherzone (talk) 20:57, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I loved the guy, we shared a birthday, and I own one of his paintings, but as an artist he is effectively unknown outside the Meher Baba community, and the sources in the article are insufficient to assert greater notability. Ref 1 doesn't contain any information about the facts being cited. Ref 2 verifiably says he met Meher Baba, like a few hundred thousand others. Ref 3 quotes him as saying he began to paint Meher Baba because: not a particularly notable factoid. --Nemonoman (talk) 19:54, 18 September 2019 (UTC) [The fact is that his achievements (painting realistic complex 3x3 meter canvases with RP and a focal length of about 10 cm and a 15x15cm field of view) really should get documented someplace. I hadn't realized it was so unknown.--Nemonoman (talk) 19:59, 18 September 2019 (UTC)][reply]
Delete per nom and because I have been unable to find any substantive, independent sourcing. Vanamonde (Talk) 20:42, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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