Talk:Chuggaaconroy


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To the person who reviews the draft, I wanted to write a few comments on what the draft consists of, what has changed from the original article, and the sources on the article. First off, this was a draft I’ve been working on for several months and was based on the original Chuggaaconroy article which got deleted due to there not being a case for his notability, despite the fact that he had two articles which significantly covered him from Wired and the New York Times (as in, at least 100 words or more), among other sources. Following the WP:BASIC criteria and WP:WEB, I rewrote most of the article from scratch with new and previously unused sources. Here are my comments:

1: The Wired, New York Times, The Atlantic, The Irish Times, and The Independent are the main sources that support his notability. While the latter three are relatively brief, when combined with the extensive Wired article and the decently significant NY Times article, they should be enough to establish significant coverage. Also, sources from Sequart, Mashable, Reporter and an article from the University of Brasilia also give him significant coverage along with other sources. These should establish his notability as a Let’s Player who makes informative gaming walkthroughs on Nintendo games, under WP:WEB. As for sources from his videos I made sure to follow WP:VIDEOLINK - “Self-published videos may be used as sources of information about their creator if they meet the requirements seen at restrictions on using self-published sources.”

2: In lieu of the Videography section which was repeatedly deleted from the original article, I put a paragraph listing the games he has made videos of which have either received moderate coverage from reliable sources or were used for illustrative purposes, à la TheRadBrad.

3: One source that might be questionable is the Zelda Universe source which talks about Chuggaaconroy’s YouTube suspension in July of 2010. I couldn’t find any consensus on whether or not the source was reliable to use, and it seems that the site might not be independent of him (as he has had his walkthroughs used on the website before), but seeing as how the article seems mostly well-written and isn’t an inaccurate fact (it genuinely did happen to him, and he had talked about it in an interview here), perhaps this source can be used only to verify this fact. I can write that Zelda Universe is an affiliate of him, although he isn't an official member of the website.

But anyway, I believe this draft should at the very least give him notability as a well-known YouTube Let’s Player.