Talk:Flood Gallery Fine Arts Center

This article was nominated for deletion on 2007-02-22. The result of the discussion was Keep.

Flood Art Gallery is a nonprofit museum and gallery which contributes to the local community through cultural events and exhibitions. Flood Art Gallery isn't interested in making money or posting advertisements on Wikipedia. I hope this matter can be resolved in a mature manner. Mindraker Mindraker 12:13, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! The reason that I flagged the article was because it was originally pretty clearly intended to promote the organization-nonprofits can be promoted, indeed, prominent ones often advertise frequently! However, the ad tone has been cleaned up. It still would be necessary to show that this is a notable organization, however. Have any secondary sources (such as a newspaper or magazine) written about the gallery? Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me Please review me!} 12:58, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your reply. Yes, some of the events and artworks that the Flood Art Gallery has done have been featured on National Public Radio, in the Asheville Citizen-Times, and in the "Mountain Xpress". We have some of our press releases quoted on our web page:

http://www.floodgallery.org/pressrelease.html http://www.floodgallery.org/press/pastpress.html Mindraker 13:18, 22 February 2007 (UTC) Mindraker[reply]

I can cite the press releases, but those in themselves would be primary as they're self-written. The newspaper article and NPR report would certainly work as secondary ones though, do you have any more detail on those? I'm going to withdraw the speedy, it looks pretty likely that notability is asserted, and the ad tone's been cleaned up. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me Please review me!} 13:19, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I can give a direct hyperlink to an article of one of the events we did in the Asheville Citizen-Times (the local city newspaper), a hyperlink to us being mentioned on the University web page, as well as the Xpress (the local alternative paper) announcing our opening. I don't have a transcript of NPR, unfortunately. It was just an advertisement for our last event, so it wasn't much, anyway.

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770208027 http://www.unca.edu/news/releases/2006/Walsh.html http://www.mountainx.com/ae/2006/0607exhibit.php I appreciate your patience. Mindraker 13:34, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]