Talk:Ian Hecox

Created
This page was just created. You can see the rationale for making this page here. More info will be added soon. JayKeaton 19:35, 11 August 2006 (UTC)


 * This article needs to be more encyclopedic. It says, for example, "He starred along side Anthony in the hugely popular video Pokemon Theme Music Video." "hugely" should be taken out because it is an opinion. It also should say the university he goes to and talk less about his personal life. CRouleau 02:55, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

The Smosh Subreddit
...is telling people to come here and write Ian's biography, despite knowing nothing about him besides his videos. Y'all should lock this page until someone more official tries to make an edit. Just food for thought Baconalacarte (talk) 12:45, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

Notability of Ian Hecox
Ian Hecox is notable because he meets WP:BASIC, WP:ENT and WP:CREATIVE. I helped rewrite most of the page to focus more on Ian's life and individual contributions to Smosh, adding more biographical details on him while trimming info that could belong to the parent article itself. One thing I anticipate is that editors will inevitably cite NOTINHERITED or BIO1E as an argument for why he isn't notable outside of Smosh. While he owes much of his notability to Smosh, I believe a distinction should be made here. The "not inherited" argument was made to prevent topics which never received any significant coverage from obtaining their own article solely based on its relation to a notable topic.

Although a large part of his notoriety does tie into Smosh, the difference here is he still has received significant coverage of his life and career, as proven with the Bleeding Cool, Daily Dot, Sactown Mag, Buzzfeed News and SN&R sources. They discuss his background and life before he formed Smosh along with his significant roles in Smosh itself and his other ventures. Also, per the Basic criteria, "the notability guideline doesn't require that the subject is the main topic of the source material, only that it's more than a trivial mention."

Finally, a strong argument can be made that he meets the second clause of ENT as a person who has "made unique, prolific or innovative contributions to a field of entertainment" per Smosh, and meets the first clause through his appearances in films such as Ghostmates, The Angry Birds Movie and Smosh: The Movie. Overall, I think it should be just enough for him to merit an article once and for all. Thanks, PantheonRadiance (talk) 03:10, 18 March 2024 (UTC)