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Contested deletion[edit]

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because it is a valid wikipedia page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.208.58.53 (talk • contribs) 16:25, 9 July 2013

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... real dude online. Could be sourced for online social psychology... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.33.59.112 (talk • contribs) 16:27, 9 July 2013

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... He is important to a lot of people --84.196.86.73 (talk) 16:40, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Contested deletion[edit]

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because...

The person known as "Shitty Watercolor" is an influential person in international internet culture. While he rose to fame on the website Reddit.com, he has since been recognized and featured in several respectable publications and websites, including Huffington Post and CNN. Through his faux amateur watercolors, his message resonates with young people around the world, putting "Shitty Watercolor" in leagues with contemporaries of the present and past such as the artist known as "Banksy" and Andy Warhol. Further, "Shitty Watercolor" shares the stature of contemporaries such as Bono for harnessing the power of his fame for greater causes, putting on a performance (12 hour painting session broadcast on youtube.com) to raise funds for a charity.

Is there a difference between the importance, the cultural relevance, or the wikipedia page of Lady Gaga and Shitty Watercolor? Not really. So I urge the moderators to consider rescinding the deletion of this wikipedia page. Or at the very least, to provide further instruction on how it may be raised to acceptable standards.

--67.176.142.25 (talk) 16:48, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Notable?[edit]

Please send this to WP:AfD. Speedy deletion does not apply. Bearian (talk) 17:09, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Submitted to AfD Neo12345292 (talk) 19:51, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shitty Watercolour. Huon (talk) 22:35, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note for people who are expressing views about the proposed deletion on this Talk page[edit]

Please go to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shitty Watercolour and express your opinions there too - that is where the deletion discussion is taking place. AlmostGrad (talk) 06:33, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The first four comments are from the {{speedy}} that was on the page previously. — fourthords | =Λ= | 02:55, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

karmanaut speaks on reason Shitty Watercolour was banned[edit]

http://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/39l55o/whatever_happened_to_the_mod_who_wanted_to_delete/cs4kzu3?context=3

"Shitty Watercolor got banned for editing ads into his comments after they were upvoted. If it had been any other mod, it really wouldn't have mattered. People were still just upset about the Bad Luck Brian thing." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flimflamx (talk • contribs) 05:27, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]