Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Comedy Institute

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 00:34, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

American Comedy Institute

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A non-notable comedy school with sources that mostly come from the school's website and its own YouTube channel. The Youtube links are obviously not independent. From what I could find about the school, all the articles that I've read that mention this school, only mention it in passing, and always included the founder of the school. There is nothing in third-party sources about what the school does outside of teaching comedy to students. There is no one article that's entirely about the school. This article fails GNG. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:44, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Aranya (talk) 03:31, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. Aranya (talk) 03:31, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete There are not enough secondary sources to show that this is a notable institution.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:32, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not notable yet. lorstaking 14:54, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
Delete - barely disguised spam. Getting onto TV talk shows and spouting PR are not reliable sources. Bearian (talk) 16:51, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I added one quotation from a NYT article and have found additional secondary sources on newspaperscom from around the U.S., though so far the news coverage I've seen is more about Stephen Rosenfeld than about the Institute he founded. Still looking... Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 19:04, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Draftify. I've listed 8 relevant articles from newspapers.com on the talk article's page, some with more than a passing mention of the Institute. I agree with the observations above, however, that this article is not ready for prime time, and needs to be de-spammed. The accreditation information, for example, is out of date, with Rosenfield listed only as a recent member of the board of NAST. Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 21:16, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing to draftify. The links you listed still won't help. And some of them I came across when I PRODDED the article and started the nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 21:45, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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