Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Esther Ku


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The result was   delete due to failure to find multiple reliable sources which can verify enough information to meet any of the notability requirements. The sources provided here are either not reliable, not significant covereage, or neither reliable nor significant coverage. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe 22:40, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Esther Ku

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Non-notable stand-up comedian whose claim to fame is finishing in eleventh place in a little-watched reality-tv show about stand-up comedians that has yet to launch a single career. Unsourced BLP. THF (talk) 03:30, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Clearly notable.  A few seconds' search yields:  (2008);  (2008);  (abstract)(2005);  (2006);  (2007); and more if you care to look.  Note that only the first two are after Ku's association with Last Comic Standing in 2008.  The others are before that and do not mention it (can't be sure of the one that's online only as an abstract).  Her notability is independent of the TV show.  THF may not have previously heard of her, but she'd been around and getting coverage prior to the show. TJRC (talk) 04:31, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: Analysis of links
 * From realitywanted.com (and about LCS) not RS
 * From buddytv.com (and about LCS) not RS
 * Boston Herald article, literally two words--Ku is listed as one of twelve minority female comics performing at a $15 show in Somerville, not "significant secondary coverage"
 * Boston Globe interview from the same show about being an minority female stand-up comic, interviews three of the performers about the subject, provides no biographic information about Ku, other than her age, her outfit, that she has a bad joke that has offended audience members in the past, and that she bombed in front of the crowd
 * Boston Globe article about public speaking, with one quote from Ku.
 * My opinion isn't changed from this information. THF (talk) 05:04, 14 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Weak Delete I'm not convinced she's there yet. THF's assessments seems persuasive Vartanza (talk) 02:15, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

KEEP: (but needs expanding ) not alot of details in this artilce, but I believe anyone that is listed/credited in the IMDB is of note. not everyone is a george washington or a bruce willis, but there are less known ppl who are also of note, perhaps not on a global scale like lord lister and his germs, but on a more local scale. Esther ku is extremely well known in the comedy circles here in new york city, but the nature of standup comedy is that you play to an audience of 100, and for a brief 5 or 10 minute stage time.. its hard to be really get famous doing that, getting on last comic standing is a great achievement. like I said, rodney dangerfield deserves to be in ANY encyclopedia.. but wikipedia is for the people, so inclusion of a comic lesser than eddie murphy or dave chapelle should remain in wiki. after all, I really think she will get bigger and bigger so eventually this artile has to be. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Miscusi (talk • contribs) 05:42, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Additional coverage, 30-minute NPR interview of Ku and Richard Lewis (comedian): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91922566  TJRC (talk) 20:49, 22 February 2010 (UTC)


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