Deletion of Ashley West

Comment: Firstly, if the wikiauthor could cite articles/journals/books that have referred to the artist’s work, would that be sufficient to satisfy the requirements under #Creative professionals?  Also, if the essential predicate for the inclusion of biographies on Wikipedia is that the subject be notable, then should we not take account of the following
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)

Comment: Article and references describe an artist, but fail to describe a notable person. Nothing in the article meets  for Creative professionals. This document http://www.creeksideopen.org/Downloads/a_west_cv&statement_cox2.doc, which seems to be generated by the artist, lists no references that could establish encyclopedic notablity (a doc like this would be the best case for finding notablilty, the artist is "blowing his own horn
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)

Comment: I notice alot of editors (who seem to be partisan towards this artist) are making comments along the lines "if we can show reliable references that this artists ''exists'', then he should be included in Wikipedia". This is directly in contridiction to #DIRECTORY|Wikipedia is not a directory. '''Existance''' is not a criteria for being in Wikipedia, notability is. i.e. Wikipedia is not the white pages or an artist directory such as "AskArt", and therefor does not included artists just because you can prove they are an artist. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that includes people with some sort of fame, achievement, or perhaps notoriety
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)