Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Top YouTube Channel Subscribers in Mainland China

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 23:30, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Top YouTube Channel Subscribers in Mainland China[edit]

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Completely unreferenced list of web content on a potentially fluctuating criterion. Lists of things by current popularity status are not the kind of content Wikipedia should be curating, as a rule, because it's subject to frequent change and thus not easily maintainable for accuracy -- and that goes double for when the content isn't even supported by any legitimate reliable sources to properly verify that the information is even accurate in the first place. Bearcat (talk) 23:00, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Internet and China. Bearcat (talk) 23:00, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Delete This is a list of useless information. PaulGamerBoy360 (talk) 23:12, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete This is a great example of an inappropriate cross-categorization. Clearly fails WP:LISTN. QuicoleJR (talk) 23:18, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete YouTube's been blocked in China since 2009, so these numbers are absolutely useless without any mainland numbers to speak of. Nate • (chatter) 23:20, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Since 2009 YouTube has been inaccessible from mainland China. However, YouTube can still be accessed from Hong Kong, Macau, the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone, specific hotels, and by using a VPN.

Even though YouTube is blocked under the Great Firewall, many Chinese media outlets, including China Central Television (CCTV), have official YouTube accounts. In spite of the ban, Alexa ranks YouTube as the 5th-most-visited website in China.(Wikipedia: YouTube Censorship In China) PaulGamerBoy360 (talk) 01:50, 30 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Whatever the case, the numbers are unofficial and 100% unverifiable (why would we account for numbers from business travelers at hotels?)). Nate • (chatter) 03:04, 30 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Um, they block youtube, so the subscriber numbers should all read zero. This is HOAX. Oaktree b (talk) 23:59, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 11:06, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete G3. InfiniteNexus (talk) 15:54, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This information is false considering that YouTube is blocked in China, and would not be that useful even if it wasn't. History person 2 (talk) 16:50, 1 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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