Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ben Going
I just found a link to a CNET news blog story called http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-6146319-7.html YouTube hosts New Year's Eve Bash.  Quote: ''Special video messages from YouTube celebrities, such as Boh3m3, Smosh, Terra Naomi, Renetto, Chad Vadar, and The WineKone, along with artists from WMG labels Atlantic Records, Warner Bros. Records and Warner Music International will be featured on the home page.''  According to Going at http://www.moviepicturefilm.com/inter.php?itemid=1162, he got paid for this, which might help him pass Wikipedia:Notability (web)''The content is distributed via a medium which is both well known and independent of the creators, either through an online newspaper or magazine, an online publisher, or an online broadcaster''  YouTube is certainly a well known medium, and this New Years promotion, plus Going's connections with the YouTube staff, http://www.moviepicturefilm.com/inter.php?itemid=1162 says he is in regular contact with a high ranking employee, argue against his output's being, from  ''Trivial distribution such as hosting content on user-submitted sites''.  The CNET link is another source, anyway.  Also: if we delete Ben Going, he would be the only "YouTube celebrity" on that link's list without a Wikipedia page, not that "well there are other pages like it" is the most substantial argument
— User:Ichormosquito, 17:31, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:WEB (Wikipedia:Notability)