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.
> >
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