Talk:Shane Balkowitsch
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Regardless of how it appears, I have no close connection with this subject (5280 is associated with Denver[1]). I am quite familiar with his work and consider his work worth noting among the photography profession and professionals, such as those (with lessor and uncited work) noted on your website. Considering the limited amount of photographers doing this particular type of work and the increasing demand for it, I believe that Mr. Balkowitsch can only become a more prominent figure and authority, hence my adding references and information on a regular basis as his reach rapidly expands. I question a desire to delete this page when I consider the many biased pages that go unscathed and uncited elsewhere on this site, such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Gr%C3%BCng.
- @Tjf5280: I believe the closely connected contributor that the tag refers to is Mr. Balkowitsch himself. As for comparisons with other articles, please see WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. If you see other articles that you do not believe meet Wikipedia's standards, you're more than welcome to tackle them yourself, but keep in mind that not everybody has time to monitor everything, so the presence of a biased article does not necessarily constitute anyone's endorsement of that bias.
- As for the article at hand, I believe he passes the notability standard (albeit not by much) and plan to weigh in accordingly at the AfD discussion. That said, the article needs to be more about him and less about the colloidion process in general (which is adequately covered elsewhere), and we need to be sure that a neutral point of view is maintained. --Finngall talk 18:58, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
Finngall - Thanks for the feedback. I have sent an email to Mr. Balkowitsch asking him not to contribute to the page to ensure neutrality is maintained. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tjf5280 (talk • contribs) 16:49, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
National Portrait Gallery Claims[edit]
The article contains two references to Mr. Balkowitsch's claim to have a portrait of Evander Holyfield with the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian. While it is possible that they did indeed solicit this portrait from him and are simply in-process evaluating for addition into the collection (for more than a year as of this writing) it is worth nothing that:
- the cited references are simply two cases of Mr. Balkowitsch making otherwise unverifiable claims to his local press
- A current search of the NPG's collection at [1] shows no portraits of Evander Holyfield currently held
Based on this fact check, it seems reasonable to delete (until such time as the Smithsonian's index reflects the portrait as held in the collection) these claims. Amolitor99 (talk) 15:37, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Note that as of now the picture DOES appear in the NPG's index, these claims are now verifiable and thus no longer questioned. Amolitor99 (talk) 22:09, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
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