Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comedy Dynamics (2nd nomination)


 * 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. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  16:30, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Comedy Dynamics
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The article fails to meet the general notability guideline in WP:NOTE. To check for significant coverage, I searched Google for information about Comedy Dynamics, and found that most of the articles were personal interviews with the CEO and founder of the company. Searching the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes yielded nothing of significance, if anything at all. To check reliability, I tried verifying the claim that Comedy Dynamics is the largest independent comedy label, although their website does not explain what largest means (most annual revenue? number of employees? albums released?). No source has made this claim except for the company itself and online opinion contributors who interviewed the CEO (neither reliable, nor secondary). The only reliable reporting about Comedy Dynamics that I found is this article by a journalist for the WSJ who found that Netflix paid Comedy Dynamics to make vinyl releases of its comedy albums, which were sold unannounced in small quantities for the primary purpose of qualifying Netflix shows for the Grammy awards.

There are a couple of points worth mentioning about the article's edits because they shed light on whether they are made by someone independent of the subject. First, there are only two major contributors to this article's content: User:ComedyFan2015 and User:66.215.16.130. These two accounts added and edited 94% of the article's content. I traced the IP address 66.215.16.130 to 2660 W Olive Ave, Burbank, CA 91505, which is the physical address of Comedy Dynamics. Second, the edits made by ComedyFan2015 and 66.215.16.130 were routine updates to the lengthy filmography, discography, and videography sections. Given the difficulty I had in trying to find information about this company, the monthly edits from these two accounts suggest intimate knowledge of the company's business. Third, the routine edits seem to trade off between these two accounts, and the edits the two accounts are making are substantially the same like here and here. It is possible these two accounts are directed by the same person or organization. Fourth, in the past few months a new user account has been editing the article, User:ComedyDynamics. The username suggests an obvious COI. Finally, perhaps unsurprisingly, Users ComedyFan2015, 66.215.16.130, and ComedyDynamics are contributors to the article about the company's CEO Brian Volk-Weiss. The content in the Brian Volk-Weiss article overlaps significantly with the Comedy Dynamics article. The article about Brian Volk-Weiss was authored primarily by User:Echidna1989, who exclusively writes and edits WP articles relating to Comedy Dynamics.

There is no doubt in my mind: Comedy Dynamics meets none of Wikipedia's criteria for notability. I anticipate that there will be pushback from the accounts ComedyFan2015, 66.215.16.130, and/or ComedyDynamics because of their investment in the subject matter. My message to these users would be that this AfD process is about Wikipedia policy, and passes no judgment about the company. The fact that Comedy Dynamics does not belong in a worldwide English-language encyclopedia reflects the scope of the encyclopedia, not the significance of the company in its industry. Thank you for your review. Romhilde (talk) 06:30, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 06:40, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 06:41, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Weak delete. This is well developed, but seems to fail WP:NORG. All the 'good sources' (Forbes, etc.) are inteviews, weakest possible type of a reliable source, per WP:INTERVIEW. If this is pruned down to content that's based in reliable, non-interview source, not sure if anything would remain that would go beyond WP:NOTYELLOWPAGES. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 09:44, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, KCVelaga (talk) 00:20, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Excellent analysis by nom, clearly none of the references meet the criteria for establishing notabaility, failing ORGIND mainly. Topic fails GNG and NCORP.  HighKing++ 11:03, 17 September 2018 (UTC)


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