Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jan-Baptist Stella

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The result was speedy delete. Double-checked in grove; no painter with these dates DGG ( talk ) 18:46, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Jan-Baptist Stella

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unsourced Biography Sehmeet singh Talk 10:45, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. —JohnCD (talk) 11:25, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Just being unsourced is not a reason for deletion, but I suspect this is a hoax: I have searched and found no mention of this painter online or in the Oxford Companion to Art, which has Jacques Stella who spent some time in Florence but whose dates are different. Also the phrase "baptist painter" is meaningless - the name "Jan-Baptist" is a reference to John the Baptist, but that does not make him a "baptist painter", and the link is to the Baptist denominations which did not exist before the 17th century. JohnCD (talk) 11:26, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. - not much information, should be deleted. Tony (talk) 11:31, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 12:17, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I too can find no sources to establish this guy's existence, having tried Google Web and Books searches for the birth/death dates and for "Giovanni Battista Stella", which is a more likely form for the name of a Florentine painter. I don't know whether the article is a hoax, but it appears to fail WP:V. Deor (talk) 12:29, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete A7, no claim to significance tagged as such. Quasi human | Talk 13:03, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Zero references, one sentence article. Even the text has no indication or claim of notability. No inidcaiton of wp:notability. North8000 (talk) 16:14, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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