Talk:Ian Benardo

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This is a biography of a living person and as such must keep a neutral point of view.

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Cnbrb (talk) 19:17, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Notability

OK, so there's a notability warning stuck on this article. I appreciate the reasons for this - but you could arguably slap this onto almost all the profiles in American Idol participants (or, let's face it, any reality TV participants) so I wonder why this one has been selected.

Wikipedia's requirements for notability naturally require source material. The trouble with a personality who features as an Internet phenomenon is the bulk of the secondary source material is going to be in the realms of the blogosphere or posted on the likes of YouTube. A narrow reading of this policy suggests that, even though this subject has appeared on So You Think You Can Dance?, American Idol, Larry King Live and features on hundreds of websites, blogs and online videos (just Google him), until someone writes an academic paper on him, he is considered not notable.

A wider reading of this policy would take into account the footnote: 'What constitutes a "published work" is deliberately broad.' So that's nice and vague then. The fact is, the subject is realatively well-known (better than a hundred other people profiled on Wikipedia whose names I can't remember becuase they are, er, not notable) but not widely covered in traditional analogue media. Nevertheless, the volume of coverage is what makes this article credible.

I'm not going to work too hard to protect this article, but I hope that, if the article cannot be saved, that the information is merged into a list article of some kind. Articles like this keep the fun alive in Wikipedia and I hope we don't lose this. Cnbrb (talk) 09:44, 31 May 2008 (UTC)