Draft:Art Tavana

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Submission declined on 6 April 2024 by CNMall41 (talk). This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia. Declined by CNMall41 6 months ago.

• Comment: The popmatters.com source is good, but I don't see any significant coverage of the subject outside of that. Half of the articles's sources are pieces the subject wrote herself, which are not independent and do not show notability. C F A 💬 05:18, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: Most of these references are primary sources, written by the subject of this draft. References will need to be secondary sources that talk "about" the subject and their work. CNMall41 (talk) 19:19, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Art Tavana is an American journalist and author from the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. He initially achieved notoriety as a music journalist at L.A. Weekly.^[1], covering everything from the Burger Records^[2] scene to the reunion of Guns N' Roses.

As a columnist at L.A. Weekly and Playboy, Tavana won an L.A. Press Club Award at the 59th SoCal Journalism Awards.^[3]

On April 1, 2016, Tavana became the only journalist to attend and review the Guns N' Roses reunion show at the Troubadour. The review^[4] (published in the L.A. Weekly) went viral and helped Tavana secure a book deal with ECW Press.

His first published book was Goodbye, Guns N' Roses^[5] (2021), which was described by PopMatters as an "important contribution to conversations about the legacy of hard rock and the ways we reckon with problematic art."^[6]