Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Craig Dillon (4th nomination)


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The result was no consensus. T. Canens (talk) 14:41, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

Craig Dillon
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BLP Article. Supposed media personality, but can't see how he is notable. Looked at it several times. Reads like a puff piece. Meida personality on youtube but few followers. Fails WP:BIO and WP:GNG scope_creep (talk) 13:11, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Note: I am not the nominator, although the log will show that I am. I only did some clerking to fix the format of the nomination. Timothy Joseph Wood 13:46, 30 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete and Salt Unless I'm missing something. I looked at the first half of the sources (no obvious reason to keep going), and they seem to be mostly directly to YouTube, or the most passing mention possible with the exception of this, which is very local coverage, and makes his claim to notability that...basically he's gotten 150k views on the internet.
 * For a person who is supposed to be a famous YouTuber, it seems that this is his channel, with all of four videos, three of which failed to break 1k views.
 * There's not been a single keep vote in three deletion discussions, and I don't see any reason that this should have changed in the past 10 months. Salt the title. Next time the author make the case for the article instead of us having to rehash a deletion discussion for the fifth time. Timothy Joseph Wood  14:23, 30 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:30, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:30, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:30, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:31, 30 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep To be fair, he is quite a well-known interviewer and prior to that a decently well known youtuber, as the article says his interview of Daniel Radcliffe was cited on the Graham Norton Show, and to be fair he has had some pretty major interviews including Will Smith, Bridget Jones among others. However, I have found some further sources in major publications including | The Independant, [teneightymagazine.com/2014/11/14/craig-dillon-thomas-corbett/|Ten eighty Magazine] [www.dailydot.com/upstream/craig-dillon-youtube-sex-abuse-allegations/| Daily Dot] and | Sky News. I can't see much sense in deleting this article. AlessandroTiandelli333 (talk) 08:05, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete still not a notable journalist.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:19, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep Dillon is a notable journalist in the UK and interviews many celebrities. His Daniel Radcliffe interview received widespread international coverage, which have been referenced in the article.   . As AlessandroTiandelli333 pointed out, he has also interviewed celebrities like Will Smith, Bridget Jones and many more, interviews which have all been referenced in the article.


 * I see "TimothyJosephWood" seems to think this article is about a "famous YouTuber", which it is not. Dillon started as a YouTuber, but deleted his videos after becoming a Sky Journalist. He claims that "the first half of the sources direct to YouTube" when in fact only 3 out of the 22 sources referenced are YouTube links, the rest are reputable news sites including Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Independent, The Huffington Post, The Daily Mail, The Telegraph and Sky News.


 * I too can't see much sense in deleting this article, Dillon is a well known journalist and is worthy of a wikipedia article.

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:19, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep - I'm not terribly swayed by the notion that Daniel Radcliffe saying something controversial really lends notability to the guy holding the microphone, especially when it amounts to celebrity gossip, and the coverage is mostly about what was said and not who it was said to. But if you approach the interview like a creative work, it isn't meaningless to notability. Combined with the other sources that are actually about the subject and it's enough to change my vote. Timothy Joseph Wood  13:15, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, T. Canens (talk) 09:14, 14 January 2017 (UTC)


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