Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eric Dunn (Vine)

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The result was no consensus. with no prejudice against speedy renomination (non-admin closure) czar · · 05:53, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Eric Dunn (Vine)[edit]

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Non-notable indivual lacking Hits and GNEWs of substance. His vid boost high hit rates, but notability is not inherited or for that matter popularity is not an indicator or Wikipedia notability. References are primary, example of his work, or trivial. Appears to fail WP:BIO and associated guidelines. reddogsix (talk) 01:43, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Kind of a case of someone notable for one event only. One of his Vine videos garnered direct coverage in several reliable online sources (Gawker, MSN), but it really seems clear that this one video is the only thing driving any coverage in reliable sources. He appears to have been notable for a 1 week period in May, 2013, over this one video/event. Producing a Vine video with a ton of views is not (yet) in and of itself grounds for notability, as far as I know. ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 01:59, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Note The video you're talking about has 1.6 million views. All of his videos combined have 15 million views, proving that other videos on the channel are popular too. https://www.youtube.com/user/ericvdunn/videos?sort=p&view=0&flow=grid Soulbust (talk) 02:34, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I definitely understand that, but that is unfortunately not grounds for notability. We generally don't include biographic articles on persons notable for only one event, and the Youtube channel views don't really factor into notability. If you can find followup coverage, or anything that suggests he's still being covered in reliable sources for something more than the video from May, then you may have a better argument.ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡ bomb 02:40, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Michaelzeng7 (talk) 17:39, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Dusti^{*Let's talk!*} 05:19, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note / Keep Followup coverage has been added. Dunn's Vine account has reached 1.5 million subscribers/followers. The Wikipedia page has even been linked in Ref #12 (#12 as of August 9, 2013). Soulbust (talk) 20:32, 9 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's definitely helpful! I think this is a borderline case, but the evidence you've supplied of at least one instance of continued coverage past the bump from the first Vine of his to become a hit suggests that he may be a notable individual. I'd really like to see more than the one instance (I'm personally discounting most of the original coverage), but this is enough for me to be totally fine if this were to close as a keep or no consensus. Good stuff, thanks for following up! ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 17:41, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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