Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mitch Hughes


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The result was delete. The Bushranger One ping only 18:11, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

Mitch Hughes

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I cannot see how this person satisfies Notability requirements. Most references are his own YouTube videos - none that are about him, as far as I can tell. I tagged this for PROD on 3 December and the original author,, removed that tag saying "More reliable references can I be found. This person is a major figure in the Minecraft gaming community. A you tuber with 5 million subscribers should be notable enough for recognition. He has also worked with other famous youtubers, like Adam Dahlberg." I do not accept that for the following reasons: A couple of new references were added since then, one of which is a press release that does not count much for notability because - well, because it is a press release. So that leaves one possible actual reliable reference: the one from streamdaily. I don't think that is enough to meet WP:GNG. Gronk Oz (talk) 12:08, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 1) Notability requires verifiable evidence, not just making vague statements that you think there are some references out there somewhere.
 * 2) If this person is very well known then it should be easy enough to find detailed coverage in reliable, independent sources.  Yet I can't find them - the best reference I could find is just a passing mention in this New York Times article.
 * 3) Who he may have worked with, or be friends with, is not relevant.
 * 4) The figure of 5 million subscribers is interesting, but is hardly a notability criterion by itself.


 * Delete per nom. Cannot find in-depth coverage in reliable secondary sources, hence does not meet WP:BIO criteria. Citobun (talk) 13:03, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Article topic lacks significant coverage from reliable, independent sources. (?) It had no meaningful hits in a video game reliable sources custom Google search. (The best search term is "BajanCanadian" without the "The".) There are no worthwhile redirect targets. If someone finds more (non-English and offline) sources, please ping me. czar  19:22, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete for now at best as my searches found a few several links at News, browsers and Highbeam but perhaps nothing for a solidly better notable article yet. SwisterTwister   talk  21:23, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia does not grant an automatic inclusion freebie to every YouTube personality who exists, or who can be merely asserted (but not adequately sourced) as a "major figure" in some gaming fandom, or who's "notable" just for working with somebody else — and the number of subscribers a YouTube channel gets has absolutely nothing to do with anything either. An article about a YouTube personality lives or dies on the volume of reliable source coverage that can be cited to support it, and no number of subscribers on any social media platform confers an entitlement to keep a Wikipedia article that isn't supported by RS coverage — and with just one non-primary source, the volume of coverage shown here is not enough. Bearcat (talk) 20:10, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete non-notable YouTube personality who lacks adequate references to pass GNG.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:46, 24 December 2015 (UTC)


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