Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kim Waldauer

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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. ELIMINATORJR 23:07, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kim Waldauer

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Prodded with reason "I don't call youtube notariarity sufficient for wiki worthiness. When she makes it, she can come back!". Prod disputed (mistakenly) with {{hangon}} tag. Procedural nomination. JPD (talk) 14:54, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete this and Cube News 1 as well. No real notability, no apparent reliable sources. She does seem to have been in a direct-to-video film of some sort, per her IMDB entry, which doesn't appear notable either. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:47, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per Starblind (along with the unnominated Cube News 1). --Evb-wiki 19:25, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per lack of notability outside of youtube Corpx 01:59, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Don't Delete This is a website with a large following. The page can be cleaned up quite a bit, though. Andrew Kirschner 02:43, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
That statement about following is unverified. Andrew Kirschner is adorable. OK, I said it. But just because I said it doesn't mean it is true. You may or may not be adorable but without a photo I can't prove it and beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Same thing with large following. A large following for an obscure artist might be 100 unique hits a day but for a NY Yankees fan site, 10,000 hits a day. Which applies to Kim and how did you verify she has that kind of following? Postcard Cathy 04:47, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
The only information that supports that is in the article, based on the youtube statistics; Which are easy to find. As for the movie, it is being distributed via DVD and I'm yet to get the sales figure on that. Drphallus 08:42, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
The show has been profiled on the the Veoh.com show "Viral", and the husband and wife creators were also interviewed by Yahoo. This may not make them The Beatles, but it shows that there is a buzz. Anyway, my wife can verify that I'm adorable, but I don't think that opinion is universal.Andrew Kirschner 01:02, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Don't Delete the article is just a stub and intended to be expanded on as I found more information. It was flagged for deletion while it was being written and was meant to support the existing article about cube news 1 that only referred to her as "Kim" and explicitly said that not much was known about her. I did some research and started to document what I found and linked cube news1 to it's creator.
    Drphallus 08:42, 21 August 2007 (UTC) — Drphallus (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
In further research I have found references to Cube news 1 and Kim in the wall street journal, Yahoo...twice (one was an interview) a small article in MySA and an interview in rumour mill news, and that is just the online references. There is a lot of offline work that she has been involved in too. There is no doubt in my mind that Kim has received enough attention to be notable
Drphallus 00:22, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Don't Delete According to YouTube's published numbers today, viewings of videos on her YouTube channel total 2,879,772. That would, in my view, be considered a "large number," although frankly I think that term ought to be deleted from the article as being rather vague. It does, however, establish an objective basis for her consideration here. She is also a member of the YouTube Partnership Program, consisting of individuals paid by YouTube for each hit, which puts her in a very select group of YouTube entertainers. I think an important point about Kim that is being missed by some of the discussants here is that she is riding the crest of a new entertainment wave: she has established a comic video vignette format that has significant appeal across all the usual demographic divisions and she is reaching this large and diverse audience via the internet. This interesting demographic is evident from checking the bios of the comment makers for her videos. Kim is wiki worthy. Verlayne 11:13, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per the nominator, this is not going to happen. Burntsauce 20:48, 27 August 2007 (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.