User:Curb Safe Charmer/YouTube

Background to my involvement
A page I have contributed to and have in my watchlist is List of people from Jersey. On numerous occasions, anonymous editors have added two YouTube personalities to the list, however as neither had a Wikipedia article about them they did not qualify for inclusion in the list, and the edits were reverted. This happened frequently enough that the page needed to be protected. Since then, a Wikipedia article about one of the YouTubers, Chris Dixon, was created. This then qualified him for inclusion in the list and he was duly added. I helped clean up the article, which had original research regularly added to it by fans. I tried to find more reliable sources about him, but eventually the Chris Dixon article was nominated for deletion and the discussion resulted in an outcome of 'delete'.

What's the issue?
Clearly there have been many articles about YouTubers proposed for deletion. If, as it seems, there is a recurring issue with editors arguing that a subject is notable because of their number of YouTube subscribers or the number of times their videos have been viewed, maybe there's a need for some specific guidance on the subject in the form of an essay or guideline? I am collecting precedent here regarding to what extent the number of subscribers that a YouTuber has can help demonstrate notability. If there's something useful I've missed, or if you'd like to comment about my suggestion, please let me know via my talk page.

WP:N says that "A topic is presumed to merit an article if ... it meets either the general notability guideline below, or the criteria outlined in a subject-specific guideline" one of which is WP:ENT. However, in practice, editors involved in deletion debates seem to consider that a YouTuber needs to meet *both* WP:GNG *and* WP:ENT. At the root of this appears to be that the subscriber count on the subject's YouTube channel is considered a primary source and is also subject to change (there's nothing to guarantee that the x million subscribers might all suddenly unsubscribe, though that's perhaps a bit far-fetched). So editors like to see the subscriber count mentioned by a secondary source, which comes with the advantage of being a point-in-time record of that count.

Essay
I started an essay on the subject here on my user page, but have now moved it to WikiProject YouTube/Notability.

Suggested way forward
WP:PEOPLEOUTCOMES could be updated to reflect the common outcomes for AfD discussions around Internet celebrities, or specifically YouTube celebrities.