Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Poole
I'' don't know ''anything'' about these fantasy card games (other than finding them kind of silly, to be honest) and ''even I'' know about ''Magic: The Gathering'' and think somebody who was an artist for the original cards axiomatically meets  as a notable commercial artist whose work was included in a very lucrative, significant commercial visual art project that has stayed in publication for a long time.  How is Poole really distinguishable from Hipgnosis as the artistic collective behind Led Zeppelin's ''Houses of the Holy'' album cover (except that Zeppelin is cooler than ''Magic: The Gathering'', but anyway)?  ''Magic: The Gathering'' has made a ''lot'' of money for its publishers and approaches the outer limits of what I would call a "niche" publication. I'm cognizant of the  maxim—"maybe in 70 years we'll appreciate him!"—but Charley Harper and Alvin Lustig immediately come to mind as commercial artists with limited lifetime academic or press coverage who nonetheless made their way into the public visual understanding in subtle but notable respects contemporaneously with their artistic output. I think in this case we should consider that the project to which the artist contributed was so notable that it confers notability in itself, whether or not the individual artist has garnered his/her own academic/press coverage
— User:Julietdeltalima, 19:45, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:NOTCRYSTALBALL (Wikipedia:Notability)