Talk:Jackson Bird (author)

Notability
You added a tag to this page suggesting that Jackson Bird may not be sufficiently notable to warrant a page. I'd love some advice on this front. Per, an entertainer is notable if they have "a large fan base or a significant "cult" following." Doesn't Jackson's YouTube channel with 86,000 subscribers and more than 6 million views meet the threshold for a "large fan base"? He's also frequently interviewed as an expert on the trans experience, but I haven't included those as references since Q&A articles aren't considered reliable references by Wikipedia. But it seems like that might help establish his notability somehow. (If you google "'Jackson Bird' transgender" you'll get 17,000 hits -- I include "transgender" in my search criteria to exclude the hits for Jackson Bird the cricket player.) Anyway, it seems to me like between his YouTube following and his high profile as a speaker about the trans experience he should qualify as notable, but I'm not sure how to document that according to Wikipedia's standards when the vast majority of articles are Q&A's with him rather than articles ABOUT him. What do you think? Grn1749 (talk) 21:10, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
 * , 86k subscribers on YouTube is definitely not a measure of notability. Now, if that figure was 50 or 60 million, it might begin to mean something. What WP looks for in notability is not google hits, or subscribers, but in-depth coverage. That being said, I am unsure of this person's notability, which is why I simply tagged it, rather than prodding it or sending it to AfD.  I'd like other reviewers to look at it.  Onel 5969  TT me 15:02, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I found it pretty easy to find a few good references for Will It Waffle? There is also plenty of coverage of his involvement in the HP fandom, which could be tentatively expanded although I'd be a bit cautious of this as it can be a sensitive topic in the context of writing about a trans person. His book gets quite a lot of hits too so I think coverage of that can and should be expanded. Anyway, I'm pretty sure we are OK for notability even if the YouTube subscriptions alone are not that high. DanielRigal (talk) 22:12, 9 February 2023 (UTC)