Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Georgie Aldous

Georgie Aldous

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That was me. I believe Wikipedia has a policy regarding notability. And a kid with some 15k subscribers and less than 5k likes on Facebook at the moment is hardly notable enough for a Wikipedia article. This sets a dangerous precedent, because if this kid can have a Wikipedia page, why not create one for every single person with a fashion blog and 15 thousand subscribers on YouTube? And just like that, you'll have hundreds, if not thousands of articles on completely unimportant people, because everyone has 15 thousand subscribers on YouTube - since even channels with 6 figures in the subscriber area are considered small, 15k can be seen as nothing.

The sources are terrible and can't even be taken seriously. A gay person is not notable (meaning to the general public) if he only appeared on sites like "The Gay" or "Pink News", atrocious blogs like "Sugarscape" (who the hell puts these as serious sources...) and some small local news site like "Eastern Daily Press". Are you kidding? You might as well just throw a quick blog together in Wordpress, write an article youself and use it a a source. And if you're going to write about being "known worldwide", you better have some world class sources, and not just "b-b-but his fans are from different parts of the world!" to back you up.

This article has everything a Wikipedia article should NOT have, everything was done wrong, and should go away. This makes me believe the whole thing is an attempt at self-promotion either by the YouTuber himself, or his fans.

84.42.224.20 (talk) 16:22, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Neutrally completes nomination for 84.42.224.20 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), rationale taken from Talk:Georgie Aldous before cleared by 86.16.65.102 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). 野狼院ひさし u/t/c 11:21, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Georgie Aldous is a worldwide known Blogger, Anti-Bullying Ambassador and YouTuber shown from his YouTube statistics. Sugarscape and ThePinkNews are reliable news sources as they are viewed by thousands monthly. Georgie rose to fame from his VIRAL YouTube Video and highly popular Coming Out Video, if someone gets popular through a Coming Out video no wonder it was written about in the news, the people that want this page taken down must be, homophobic? People must be searching who he is because this page is the top result for 'Georgie Aldous' and it used to be bottom! It has a lot of useful information on it, he's up for 3 YouTube related awards which I didn't know of until reading this article. Being an LGBT YouTuber and Ambassador is a defining characteristic, just like the Gay politicians or Gay writers category on here! I say it should stay, it helps people know more about him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.16.65.102 (talk) 12:38, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete At best, this is too soon. The article does not have any mainstream or major sources. The article lists awards that he has been nominated for in 2015, but has not yet won. He was "newtuber of the week" at one site in June of 2015 - only four months ago. This needs much more time and more reliable source recognition. LaMona (talk) 21:41, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - There really aren't many sources on him and to be quite frank he's not that popular on YouTube. There are many YouTubers with much larger followings and even more press than he does without articles currently. Maybe in a while he will be more notable, but for now he is simply not. Andise1 (talk) 07:54, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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