Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Swiftor


 * 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. Alexf(talk) 12:34, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Swiftor

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The moniker of a community manager for a social gaming site. Apparently counts receiving a takedown notice from the GTA4 team as one of his criticisms. A google search failed to turn up any reliable sources (although did show plenty of forum and twitter posts). In general, fails WP:BIO: founding a gaming community and raising a few grant for charity doesn't necessarily confer notability. B figura (talk) 03:40, 12 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Remain as is I don't think this article should be deleted, first of all Swiftor (aka Swift aka Joseph Alminawi) is an idol for a lot of people, around 5000. Of course, if you compare this amount of people to everyone on the world, it is small, but what does 1 more article bother you? This article should stay, in my opinion. -Trickboss — Trickboss (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Delete as nominator, for the reasons above. B figura  (talk) 03:40, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Remain as is Although he is not the most popular person, I believe the article should stay. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.93.161.109 (talk) 13:25, 12 September 2009 (UTC) — 72.93.161.109 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Why? THE AMERICAN METROSEXUAL 18:48, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete If at all, this should be at Joseph Alminawi, but then again as pointed out above, the guy seems pretty unknown. Moreover, I can't see any sources or ref's on the page. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 03:46, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * User:Squadcone Hi I'm the author of this article and am pretty new to editing wiki stuff in general. I've only done a bit for our internal wiki at work.  I apologize for not adding references up front, but I'll add them now to the best of my ability.  I'm sorry that he does not seem to be well known to you guys, but his channel and community are quite notable in several large communities. As for the criticism, I thought that was important for folks to know, if not, I don't see a problem with that being taken down.  There's no official notice to my knowledge on that, I just know he admitted it verbally last year.  As for notability, a quick look at his channel shows almost 4 million views and over 12000 fans.  He also reliably gets between 600 and 800 live viewers when he broadcasts, which makes him one of the top broadcasters on Justin.tv The respective Facebook page has about 1500 fans and is only 2 or 3 months old.  Their forums have about 4000 users and a respectively active community (which I am admittedly a part of). Perhaps I should be adding these to the page as well along with the reference links, sorry for the trouble, working on it!  If this still does not meet the guidelines, I understand, but I believe him being documented is note worthy.  I was very careful not to make it seem promotional.  Should it just be listed at Joseph Alminawi?  I tried to find someone else listed by their nick name but could not find any immediately.  Any help would of course be great. Update: I added the references, and some external links... perhaps some should not be there.  Again thank you for the patience and help!
 * Delete. No clear claim to notability. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 14:35, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Remain as is He is a great person and is a role model for people (around 500-1000 that watch him regularly on his stream on justing tv). He ha about 5000 people on his forums.Thats may not seem like alot but Its not bothering anyone. So there is no use for its deletion.-premani95 — 68.209.198.237 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.


 * Delete. That he's a great person is all well and good, but that doesn't mean he deserves a Wikipedia page, nor does the fact that the article isn't bothering anyone. I read the article and did a Google search, and although the article is pretty well-written, he doesn't appear to have any independent coverage outside of the YouTube world. Sites like that and Facebook are not reliable sources. (By the way, are all the users voting "remain as is" the same person?) THE AMERICAN METROSEXUAL 18:48, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - No Google news hits, no Google scholar hits, no Google book hits. In fact, I can't even tell what notability guideline this article claims to fall under. I am also confused as to why the editor who added the rescue tag also !voted here to delete it. Dori ❦ (Talk ❖ Contribs ❖ Review) ❦ 00:23, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Ok, after reading the comments I can understand the sentiment, how would we go about removing the post cleanly? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Squadcone (talk • contribs) 04:39, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * If ever you want to delete a page you created in good faith (and the subject of the article is not notable), simply place a db-author tag at the top of the article. But I already placed the tag for you. :) THE AMERICAN METROSEXUAL 06:12, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.