Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adam Buckley (comedian)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. Under present guidelines, YouTube views are not an arbiter of notability. If that ever changes, or if other sources become available, no prejudice towards recreation. Yunshui 雲 水 14:23, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Adam Buckley (comedian)

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Fails to meet our criteria for either WP:BASIC or WP:CREATIVE, at this time. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:54, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Clearly non-notable. CesareAngelotti (talk) 23:06, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. I disagree with "non-notable" (unless you believe all Internet personalities are), but I agree this page should be deleted. In its current form, it's not a valuable resource to anyone looking for information about A Dose of Buckley or its creator, and it has far too many errors and nothing cited. - Buckley — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.213.225.50 (talk) 00:29, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I should have added that one additional criterion in WP:ENTERTAINER would allow us to keep merely on the basis of "a large fan base." As of now Adoseofbuckley has 482 k subscribers. Thoughts? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 12:43, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Is there a threshold for what is "a large fan base or a significant "cult" following"? If 482,000 makes that grade, then yes I agree this page should stay. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DennisSimms (talk • contribs) 02:42, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. I've done a quick search on him and there isn't much about him online. I would guess he's bought his youtube subscribers/views but I can't say that for sure. The page would need to be cited properly for it to stay and even then he may not meet notability. MaxineBangs (talk) 15:15, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I didn't know you could buy views but yes, I see one could. That does complicate things a little when it comes to equating views with "fan base," I suppose. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:04, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I've just done some further researching and I noticed on his Facebook page a few people on my friends list have "liked" his page. I also read comments on a couple of his youtube videos and the comments seem legit. I think the page does need a lot of work though and shouldn't be on Wikipedia at it's current state. Also on further inspection of the creators talk page, all I see is block notices and notifications of his pages being deleted. Looks like a PR person to me so I'm going to say delete. MaxineBangs (talk) 17:36, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
 * So, I bought 77 million views? How much would that cost? Thank you for believing I'm rich, but I haven't bought a single view or subscriber. Someone created this Wikipedia page, someone else brought it to my attention in a reddit post on a subreddit (that I didn't create) about my work. A "quick search" would show you that I have a website, a verified Facebook page with nearly 50,000 likes, and a Twitter account with 26,000 followers. None of those things were purchased. For a community priding itself on research instead of hearsay, not much has gone into this thread. As I said previously, I agree that this page is not well sited (someone did the awards) and should potentially be deleted just based on the fact that it's not well put together. But "non-notable"? Based on Wikipedia's own criteria for it as brought up by the other two users above, I'm notable. A Dose of Buckley (talk) 17:46, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, if the consensus is you meet the fan base criterion in WP:ENTERTAINER, I'd be quite happy to see this article kept. That certainly does seem like a very impressive number of followers, subscribers, and what have you. As for the awards, fwiw, WP:ANYBIO would require significant, major awards to confer notability, and I don't believe those two awards would qualify. Lastly, I hope you won't take any of this personally. This is a discussion about whether an article meets a specific set of guidelines. I've no doubt that you are notable, regardless of whether an article about you can be written in such a way that it meets Wikipedia criteria, at this point in time. best, Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:18, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I certainly don't take it personally if the article doesn't meet guidelines, if it doesn't meet criteria to be here. I said previously I thought it should be deleted. However, claims that I purchased followers do tend to annoy me. Also the awards thing wasn't regarding notability, more about how someone attempted to cite at least something on the page. I don't care if there's a Wikipedia page about me, but I do care that if it exists, it's correct and accurate, so I'm entirely with you on that. Just not a fan of being accused of things I didn't do. A Dose of Buckley (talk) 18:56, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
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