Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bob (image)
by merging into Bill Fink (which Draft:Bill Fink|is a submitted AfC draft). I'm going to set aside the issue of paid editing, since at AfD our task is to determine notability of the topic. The article has three offline references. I can |take the creator's word for it that at least two of these deal with the specific artwork, but the only one I can see in snippet view on Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=VbIgAQAAMAAJ&q=Bill+Fink+artist+ashes&dq=Bill+Fink+artist+ashes&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwje17KA-P_WAhUirVQKHUo5DcwQ6AEIKDAA ''The Advocate'', is about a group of memorial works of which this is only one. Google doesn't even find Bob's last name there for me. Moreover, what I found by searching ("ashes" gets far more results than other words for the material) is that this is mentioned among his other works. There's quite a lot of bloggy coverage on-line of his technique of "Time and Matter Photography" in general: I'll cite here http://www.odditycentral.com/art/insanely-talented-artist-can-manipulate-virtually-any-material-or-matter-into-photo-like-images.html Oddity Central, which several others refer to as their source. The following don't, so far as I can see: http://www.pondly.com/2014/12/time-and-matter-photorealistic-works-of-art-by-bill-fink/ Pondly, http://www.amusingplanet.com/2014/11/bill-fink-creates-photorealistic-images.html Amusing Planet, https://www.ageekyworld.com/photo-like-images-from-different-materials-time-and-matter-photography/ A Geeky World, http://www.gadgetcrunch.net/2007/08/23/photographs-made-from-human-ashes/  Gadgetcrunch. In all of these the Bob picture is one example (the last is a teaser for a video and the Bob picture is there on the wall in the still image; a different kind of "one example"). The emphasis is rather on "human ashes" as one material he uses. These all seem to date to 2014. What puts it over the top for me and makes the artist (or rather his  technique) meet GNG is http://www.multivu.com/players/English/7896651-ad-council-smokey-bear-wildfire-psa/ this press release from 2016 that he created images out of ashes from a wildfire for a Forest Service fire prevention campaign. I think Bob (image) is a useful search term, since there was demonstrably news coverage (and the creator might possibly change my mind with stunning quotes from the two news articles that we are told are all about this image). But what's actually notable, in my view based on my search, is Bill Fink's art. So keep, and make a redirect. And the draft of the article on the artist needs expanding with other examples including the forest fire ashes
— User:Yngvadottir, 19:57, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:AGF (Wikipedia:Assume good faith)