Talk:Body marbling

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Marbling, paper, body, ...[edit]

@:Ronz: It seems plain that despite its dodgy authorship and youthful, festival-going and no doubt commercial origins, body marbling is a genuine thing which is being discussed in a wide range of media including decent places like Marie Claire magazine, and if some of the sources are a bit young and light, I'd have thought them numerous enough for notability, but whatever, it's only an article.

However, let's step back a bit. The topic of marbling with floating paint is undoubtedly notable, but it has historically been assumed that the only thing anybody would want to marble was paper, for book covers, endpapers, wrappings, and so on. Since people now want to do it to living skin (and who knows, maybe other things, marbled balloons are on sale), we could add a small section to Paper marbling ("Festival usage" or something of that sort), but that seems to me to be straying outside the topic of marbling paper; or we could make an article Marbling (floating paint) with sections on paper and skin, with main links to the other articles; or if you're in full trash-the-blighter mode, we can redirect the skin/body article to the skin section of the new article. Body painting is another possible target. I assume we agree that the goal is to get some sensible degree of coverage. We might as well agree a way of doing this that everybody is happy with. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:11, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the additional refs and finding an online version of the missing one.

While I tend to agree with you, I don't think the sources are enough to support the notability for this article at this point. The sources are all puff pieces.

I agree that there's enough for mention in another article. It also looks like marbling as a painting technique should be expanded beyond just the application to paper, so I'm leaning toward it being there.

We also have Brad Lawrence, which is in worse shape than this article despite BLP applying to it. Maybe a stub/near-stub article for Black Light Visuals, redirect Brad Lawrence to it, and link Black Light Visuals within the body marbling section in Marbling (floating paint). --Ronz (talk) 21:04, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]