Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dixon D. White

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The result was delete. Sarahj2107 (talk) 13:09, 24 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dixon D. White[edit]

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I'm nominating this after sitting on it for a while, to see if additional coverage came available. It'd originally been nominated for a speedy, but there was enough of an assertion of notability to where it passed. The story behind this is a little unusual, but here goes:

In April 2015 a guy posted a video on YouTube about racism that received media attention. The coverage appears to be centered around the time of the video's release and there's really not a lot past that point in time. I think that this article is probably the most recent, from September 2015, and it's really more of an opinion piece where White is brought in to comment than about Dixon himself. Now what makes this a bit murkier is that someone posted to Reddit claiming that the video was all a hoax. It's validity is in question, considering that they backtrack eventually (after being questioned by other redditors) and try to say that they were only commenting on a blog post they found somewhere.

Hoax or not, my basic concern here is that ultimately this person appears to only be known for one video posted over a year ago. The coverage wasn't overly heavy and ultimately it never translated into anything more than your typical coverage of someone posting a viral video. If he'd gone on to post more videos that gained coverage over time that'd be different, but I don't see where this is the case here. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:10, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I simply don't think Dixon D. White is notable enough to retain as an article. PeterTheFourth (talk) 07:56, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - It's a "hoax" only insofar that Dixon is not a "real person", it's a character, which is a nuance that many seemingly had not grasped at first. The guy behind (whose real name I won't post on-wiki, possible BLPvio without a source?) still uses the Dixon name on Facebook and explicitly calls it his pseudonym. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 14:12, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Gotcha - thanks for clearing that up! Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:59, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. GSS (talk) 19:35, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. GSS (talk) 19:35, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as I myself would've also nominated had I found it today, simply nothing actually convincing and it's only coverage from the apparent events and such, nothing else convincing. SwisterTwister talk 18:26, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete non-notable individual.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:21, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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.