Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Provan

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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. Herostratus 03:12, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] James Provan

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The subject of this article is a student who made a video which some people thought was funny and so he got some media mentions in a "famous for fifteen minutes" style exposure. I do not think this makes James Provan notable. Sam Blacketer 17:25, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Note: has previously been nominated for deletion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Provan (student). Sam Blacketer 17:28, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Notability is (usually) permanent, and there are multiple reliable sources -- therefore I see absolutely no reason to delete, even if it was fifteen minutes of fame. Ten Pound Hammer • (((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps))) 17:34, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Wikipedia is not a mirror of everything which has 2 newspaper articles in a 2 day period. He has had his 15 minutes of fame for creating a stop motion video that people looked at on Youtube. Edison 19:08, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. I see this as a perfect example of why coverage in reliable sources should only be a presumption of notability. I find a pair of fluff human interest stories that have essentially the same content to be unconvincing evidence of notability. That being said, I could probably accept the notability of the pancakes song itself, given this coverage and its rise on the Israeli charts.--Kubigula (talk) 21:42, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. He's a YouTube celebrity who has had 3 videos featured and has been in the media multiple times. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.224.144.241 (talk) 01:06, 24 September 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.