Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brooke Brodack

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 keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 05:16, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Brooke Brodack

Vanity, YouTube Cruft, Non-Notable person Bschott 13:37, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

• Comment - I could possibly see a Merge with the main YouTube page or with a Well-Known Users of YouTube page but beyond that I personally believe it is possible Cruft and she is Non-Notable. --Bschott 13:51,
• Keep The article is fully referenced to many notable newspapers/ magazines. She has recieved significant coverage as demonstrated in the article. (Disclosure: I am the articles creator) Viridae^Talk 13:46, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Further links to major newspapers/news sources and deletion debate on the talk page. Viridae^Talk 13:53, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Not a vanity page - was not created by the subject. Viridae^Talk 13:54, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Vanity pages are not just limited to the subject but those associated with the subject or those involved with the subject in some way shape or form. --Bschott 14:22, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment Once again, not a vanity page. I am neither related to, involved with, or associated with the subject in any form apart from seeing her video on YouTube, seeing the press coverage and thinking that gave her the required notability for inclusion. Viridae^Talk 22:44, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I am inclined to think that the Carson Daily contract, and all the media coverage would make her at least marginally notable already. And of course, once the Carson Daily stuff actually gets aired (assuming it does), I don't think her notability could be disputed. --Iustinus 18:22, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Does this mean that anyone that is mentioned in a few articles automatically notable? Quite a few US soldiers have been named in various newspapers and shown on TV, especially when reporters are assigned to military units, but does that mean they are notable? --Bschott 19:29, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment If a soldier gets the amount of press coverage that Brooke has got due to their actions as a soldier (heroic, illegal, immoral) then I don't see why they shouldnt have an article on them. Viridae^Talk 22:46, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - I read an article about Brodack in the Boston Globe a few weeks ago. I do believe she is notable, not only for the sheer amount of press coverage she gets, but also because of the impact her popularity has had on YouTube. The Carson Daly deal isn't altogether that notable until something actually comes of it. But she is a notable figure; her name is a household one at this point. If this article is deleted, information about her should certainly be merged into the YouTube article. Srose (talk) 20:09, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - If others on YouTube have articles (see Emmalina and the AfD vote for her. The vote there resulted in a keep.) Then this should be kept as well. Ms. Brodack is more noteworthy too. Dave 23:16, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep qwm 15:33, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete – I finally decided to try YouTube a couple of weeks ago. I almost immediately came across Brookers and her videos; she's really funny. However, I only read articles about her in the media once I found her on YouTube, mainly because her fans kept linking to those articles in their comments. I'd argue she's not even an internet phenomenon, but simply a YouTube celebrity. Someone argued Emmalina from YouTube also has an article and intimated that to be precedent for inclusion for Brookers as well. Nobody knows these people besides users of YouTube. If computer programmers are very active in newsgroups, end up getting jobs because of their contributions to those communities, and then end up in tech site articles (for whatever reason), that doesn't automatically warrant the creation of an entry on wiki. Remember the Star Wars Kid? He was notable. Whether people were part of a particular community or not, they found out about him. Brooke Brodack isn't quite there just yet.--Contrinewb 23:26, 25 July 2006 (UTC)contrinewb
• Keep - Seeing as she has been hired by someone in the industry, and she is the first to do so through YouTube, pretty much single-handidly, that makes her very notable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.91.79.227 (talk • contribs)
• Keep - I highly agree with the above.--Joseph 00:11, 29 July 2006 (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.