Smasher talk:IntroSpecktive

Deletion

Gonna have to say this but this page has to go, I fully support this deletion. S3AHAWK (talk) 20:50, July 12, 2020 (EDT)

Support as well, this article was deleted before and will be deleted again for the exact same reason. NPM Morr!? 21:26, July 12, 2020 (EDT)

Support Player has no relevance to the competitive scene. Page needs to go. Señor Mexicano (talk) 00:31, July 15, 2020 (EDT)

Support: Try creating a smasher article that has actual tournament results. A popular Youtube channel is insufficient warrant a page. MemeDedede (talk) 09:40, July 16, 2020 (EDT)

Bump S3AHAWK (talk) 00:46, July 22, 2020 (EDT)

The new notability policy seems to completely contradict the arguments made here. He's definitely been "contributing to the growth of the community" through his YouTube channel, and he is certainly a "content creator". I don't get the arguments here given this. Heavy oppose. --Plague von Karma 11:02, July 22, 2020 (EDT)

I feel as though many people forget that the notability guideline specifically says that notability is defined "for the purposes of this Wiki, as any article pertaining to the competitive community of the Super Smash Bros. series". IntroSpecktive's content creation and contributions to the community have nothing to do with the competitive scene which is what the wiki documents. As per current guidelines the subject in question is not notable. Señor Mexicano (talk) 15:11, July 22, 2020 (EDT)

Neutral. I don't see a reason to not include popular Smash YouTubers without a competitive presence, but at the same time Smasher pages are for competitive players, not content creators. Also, I don't want to go down the rabbit hole on defining what a "notable" content creator is, especially since the ones with a lot of subscribers such as Alpharad, Shofu, and Little Z have participated in legitimate tournaments and a subscriber threshold isn't really a good idea for notability. CookiesCreme 15:25, July 22, 2020 (EDT)

The question that needs to be asked is, has he ever been in a tournament notable by this wiki's standards? Not that I recall, but I may be wrong. If he has, Oppose. If not, Support. Sincerely, Samuel the Banjo-Kazooie Boss. 15:54, July 22, 2020 (EDT)

As per my latest edit summary on the page, bump again. S3AHAWK (talk) 15:59, July 25, 2020 (EDT)

third bump S3AHAWK (talk) 22:14, July 31, 2020 (EDT)

All right, I'm getting tired of this. I apologize if I'm forgetting something, but can we not just delete the page already? Support is nearly unanimous, with no reasonable arguments being made against it. Sincerely, Samuel the Banjo-Kazooie Boss. 00:50, August 1, 2020 (EDT)

Doing some quick research, I found Intro has no Smash.gg profile. Intro has a SmashBoards account and, as of August 1, 2020, he hasn't been seen in 4 years. So yeah, gonna reconfirm my support here. S3AHAWK (talk) 01:10, August 1, 2020 (EDT)

Aren't we supposed to delete this here talk page as well now that the associated mainspace page is gone? Sincerely, Samuel the Banjo-Kazooie Boss. 22:22, March 29, 2021 (EDT)

I say not delete yet and think this case should be brought back up, because I want to know since when was it decided that being a big Smash youtuber didn't count as any sort of notability. Plague is right here, and I've noticed the CCD article was deleted, as well as an attempt to create a MagicScrumpy article was deleted, which I find highly disagreeable. We even have a Youtuber category, which exists because youtube stuff is noteworthy. Plus I don't find this distinction with "contribution to the competitive community" worthwhile; the Smash community is the Smash community, and it's not like these people's fans weren't largely competitive players themselves, or that they didn't contribute by getting more casuals into competitive play. Omega Tyrant 00:04, March 30, 2021 (EDT)

Echoing OT here, it's pretty questionable that between two equally famous Youtubers, one gets to have a page because he got some mediocre placements at a tournament (that probably would not merit him a page otherwise), while the other who does not participate in tournaments does not. With that said, we should be probably more strict with articles on non-competitive people than we are normally, otherwise we are going to be swamped by pages about minor youtubers. --Rdrfc (talk) 05:07, March 30, 2021 (EDT)

I don't have a problem with a popular YouTuber being included once we've set guidelines. I assume they would be similar to adding a labber or director or something in that if you don't compete competitively you would need to have a strong case for notability. I don't think it would be beneficial for us to have a flood of YouTubers Wiifitkid (talk) 05:51, March 30, 2021 (EDT)

Allow me to take a look at where IntroSpecktive might fall under the guidelines of SW:NOTABLE as they currently stand.

SW:NOTABLE's guidelines for content creators refers to a person "ha[ving] contributed high-level content to the Smash community or has contributed significantly in other ways. For example, being involved in a highly regarded tournament-streaming team, discovering and reporting information about the inner workings of Smash including specific characters or mechanics, being a high level commentator, creating and uploading popular tutorial videos, being a highly regarded Smash modder, contributing to the growth of the community, etc."

Now, I just so happen to be a big fan of Mr. Colin's content, he's probably one of my favorite Smash-related channels. I would personally love for him to get have an article here, and I've tried to see how that might work out. But his content and the types of people who watch his channel are not going to qualify him - his channel is almost entirely nonsense comedy and skits, as well as the occasional commentary on an aspect of the Smash community, or videos on stuff completely unrelated to Smash. Almost every single one of his videos with over 1M views is a skit about one part of the Smash community's take on some other part of the community or another game entirely; his "serious" discussions perform relatively poorly by comparison, and ones that actually show off and discuss in-game mechanics (which are extremely scarce) perform even worse. Big-league players don't talk about him, and heck, he doesn't talk about big-league players unless his jokes call for it. So as far as I'm concerned, IntroSpecktive's content most certainly does not qualify for coverage under the "significant contributions" clause.

There is that second clause that provides for creators that "can prove legitimate regional or greater fame within the competitive community otherwise not covered by these guidelines." Now, I don't like these "generalisation" clauses because someone can work through the wording in a way that lets anybody in, but thankfully we've kept to a pretty decent selection of 'Tubers. So what this discussion comes down to, regardless of "significant contributions" (which, again, he doesn't have), is whether he's well-regarded enough within the community, and whether people talk about him. If someone can bring up sufficient evidence of notable people taking notice of him, then I will happily support bringing this page back per my interpretation of SW:NOTABLE. Otherwise, I maintain that the "YouTubers" category is strictly for otherwise notable Smashers who also just so happen to have channels, and that this page and any similar cases of pure-entertainment content creators with no notable tourney results should be discarded.

Hope you got the general idea of my argument through all that rambling. Sincerely, Samuel the Banjo-Kazooie Boss. 08:58, March 30, 2021 (EDT)
P.S. who is this "Plague" YouTuber? That page may not be needed either.