Talk:Joe Wos

Four Emmy Awards

This stub of an article leaves out many of Joe's greatest accomplishments (such as his four Emmy wins for the PBS series Cartoon Academy) and so many reliable sources. I will not be the one to add that information, however, because he is a good friend of mine. Doczilla _{Ohhhhhh, no!} 01:20, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Added Cartoon Academy and sources for awards. tlesher (talk) 13:43, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Notability

This article has been tagged for a notability concern. Wos is the winner of a Reuben, which is the primary awards of US newspaper cartooning, and should satisfy WP:ANYBIO.

In addition to the material already being used as reference in this article, here is Knoxville newspaper coverage of him and his work, front-of-section, above-the-fold coverage of his local appearance and the display of his work at a museum in Tucson, a record of an exhibition of his work at the City Museum in St. Louis (which was used as the basis for this article in St. Louis magazine), the Wichita Art Museum considering him being worth promoting in an ad. The museum exhibits alone should put him in reasonable consideration for meeting WP:NARTIST.

I will not be making any significant changes to the article myself (I've done a little spelling clean-up) as I have a WP:COI when it comes to Joe. I've known him, albeit lightly, for years, and about three years ago I hired him for a minor bit of voice work. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 06:31, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

There seems to be a difference between a Reuben Award and a Silver Reuben Award. Only about half of the listed recipients of the latter currently have blue-linked articles, so it's not immediately clear that this award has similar prominence.

As for the various sources listed here, they all look like promotional materials to me; I'd be hard pressed to call it significant coverage. The NARTIST argument on the basis of museum exhibitions is maybe the strongest presented, but I'm not really sure that this stands up the criterion of The person's work (or works) has: (a) become a significant monument, (b) been a substantial part of a significant exhibition, (c) won significant critical attention, or (d) been represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums. Subcriterion B is really the only one that can be claimed to be met, but on what basis would we claim that the Wichita Art Museum and City Museum in St. Louis exhibitions are significant without additional coverage of their significance? _signed, Rosguill ^talk 13:24, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

I think you are vastly underestimating the link rate for the Silver Reuben. Only about half the names on the list are linked largely because the same people have won the award repeatedly, but per guidelines are only linked once. Some of them aren't blue links simply because no one has remembered to link them (I just put in a link for Dick Hodgins, Jr., who does have an article but had four black listings and no blue ones.) Checking the recipients for the first of the awards listed, a long-running one that we're listing winners every year from 1956 through 2021, only five of the artists listed do not (yet) have Wikipedia pages. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 15:49, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

I will add in This Wall Street Journal article on him and his work to the discussion. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 16:42, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

CNN interview and New York Times Doczilla _{Ohhhhhh, no!} 19:22, 17 June 2024 (UTC)