http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogscast springs to mind.
A million followers on Youtube, arguably one of the factors in making Minecraft as popular as it is today, deleted time after time. Michel Vuijlsteke On 9 October 2011 01:11, WereSpielChequers <[email protected]>wrote: > One good place to look would be talkpages deleted per G8, especially where > the article was deleted per A7. > > Better still if you could get an extract of deleted talkpage edits by > editors with less than 100 edits. > > Or if you don't have access to deleted edits, an extract of Wikipedia space > edits in subpages of Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion by editors with fewer > than 100 edits would find shed loads. > > In my experience the most common argument against our notability concept is > along the lines of "but he exists!". Which is more a failure to grasp the > concept of notability as opposed to having an alternative concept of it. > > More meaningful ones are along the lines of Wikipedia not embracing the > Internet - our lack of regard for people with high youtube followings does > seem perverse to some; And ones where notability is as yet uncertain such > as > new signings to major teams who haven't yet played for the team. > > WereSpielChequers > > On 8 October 2011 09:24, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2011/10/7 Johan Jönsson <[email protected]>: > > > > > do you remember any particular discussions about articles (on the talk > > > page, or AfD if enough newcomers found their way there) on English > > > Wikipedia where you could see that new editors/outsiders didn't agree > > > with the concept of notability, or how notability is interpreted among > > > (most) Wikipedians? I know that I've seen them, I just can't seem > > > where to find them. > > > > > > +1 > > > > These need collecting. > > > > Deleting newcomers' hard work is one of our big PR problems. Even if, > > after contemplation, we decide we were actually right to do so. > > > > When someone wanders into the sausage factory and the very first thing > > that happens is that they fall head-first into the meat grinder ... > > this is an *unfortunate* circumstance. > > > > > > - d. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
