Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Megan Letter

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The result was keep‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:07, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Megan Letter

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Article's reception were filled with unreliable sources. Zero

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Keep per source table Nagol0929 (talk) 12:39, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Source	Independent?	Reliable?	Significant coverage?	Count source toward GNG ?
Source assessment table:
Bloomberg			Goes on about how she made money and about her Roblox career	✔ Yes
Buisness of buisness	Interview	?	~	✘ No
Forbes				✔ Yes
Wonder works studio			Career listing site	✘ No
Npr			Talks about Roblox not just Megan herself	✘ No
Cnbc	Interview			✘ No
This table may not be a final or consensus view; it may summarize developing consensus, or reflect assessments of a single editor. Created using {{source assess table}}.

Weak delete. CNBC is an interview, the Forbes is a contributor piece. Bloomberg is solid, but it's about all there is for sourcing. One more and we'd be at notability I think Oaktree b (talk) 13:15, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Women, Entertainment, and Internet. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 13:25, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Besides the articles already mentioned, I found [[1]] and [[2]]. Not convinced that this one passes GNG right now. Let'srun (talk) 21:06, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: per nom and discussion above. Idiosincrático (talk) 23:29, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:46, 7 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as per the good sources located by Cunard below. ~~Delete~~ as per the source list above, also the Bloomberg piece is also totally reliant on either an interview with Megan or an interview with the platform Roblox which are heavily associated with her so not Independent either.
HighKing⁺⁺ 11:11, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply
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Delete She is note a notable subject even for the limited media in which she appears. Not enough RS coverage of her own activities to merit an article. I vote to delete. Go4thProsper (talk) 16:16, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent
reliable sources. The subject passes Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Basic criteria, which says:
People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject
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- If the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability; trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not usually sufficient to establish notability.
Sources
1. Connock, Alex (2023). Media Management and Artificial Intelligence: Understanding Media Business Models in the Digital Age. Abingdon, Oxon:
  ISBN 978-1-0321-0095-1. Retrieved 2023-09-11 – via Google Books
  .
  The section about MeganPlays contains about 500 words. The book notes: "Megan Letter, previously known by her maiden name Leeds, started on YouTube in 2014 at university, posting videos of herself playing the life-simulation game The Sims. She earned around $400 a month, her YouTube success was modest and she wasn't earning enough to support herself full time (Zabasajja and Kharif, 2021). But by 2022, she was best known for her online name MeganPlays, a pink-purple-haired personality she created for role-playing on Roblox, the fastest-growing gaming platform for user-created games. ... In six years, earnings grew from $400 a month to a seven-figure influencer business, diversifying her YouTube channels, revenue streams and a venture into game design. She went from 240,000 subscribers (September 2018) to 1 million subscribers (September 2019) in just a year. She achieves some 40 million monthly views on her Roblox gaming channel alone (Stubbs, 2021). ... MeganPlays has a 90% female viewership, aged between 7–14 years. Most viewers are aged 9–10. Her content therefore matches the main demographic of Roblox (Sidhwani, 2021) and Letter has mastered the art of online fan engagement."
2. Zabasajja, Jennifer; Kharif, Olga (2021-04-27). "Roblox Queen MeganPlays Is Making Millions With a Blocky Digital Empire". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
  The article notes: "Letter is rare in that she’s an influencer, a gamer, and a developer, allowing her to cross-promote her products. “MeganPlays’s success is rooted in the fact that she spent time learning the ropes of effective content creation, such as tailoring the look and feel of her channel to a younger audience,” says Doron Nir, chief executive officer of StreamElements, which caters to video-content creators. “She diversified her focus to include game designing, and then combined these skills to launch a title that was well-received by both her own and the greater Roblox community.” ... She started making videos while studying fine arts at the University of Texas at Arlington, then began focusing on YouTube after graduation, playing Roblox games such as Adopt Me!, in which gamers can adopt pets."
3. Less significant coverage:
  1. del Barco, Mandalit (2021-03-09). "Roblox Goes Public — What's Roblox? Ask Anyone With Kids".
    National Public Radio. Archived from the original
    on 2023-09-11. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
    The article notes: "Megan Letter is a Roblox superstar, who famously plays "Adopt Me" with her virtual pet unicorn, Honey. She has more than three million subscribers for her daily YouTube channel "Megan Plays." The 25-year-old influencer from Dallas has other YouTube channels and a merchandise line. She and her husband Zach also run their own studio where they developed the game "Overlook Bay.""
  2. Megan Leeds, who attended the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), was covered in the UTA student newspaper The Shorthorn. From Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources#Student media: "given their local audience and lack of independence from their student body, student media does not contribute to notability for topics related to home institutions". Although these sources do not establish notability, I am including them here as they can be used to expand and source the article. The sources:
    1. Dilone, Alexa (2016-01-27). "Super Megan's World". The Shorthorn. Archived from the original on 2023-09-11. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
      The article notes: "Megan Leeds is not only a member of Zeta Tau Alpha but also an avid gamer with her own YouTube channel titled “Megan Plays.” The visual communications junior’s passion for gaming started when she was about 3 years old, when her father first introduced her to the world of video games, Leeds said."
    2. Huynh, Mandy (2021-06-26). "The building blocks of MeganPlays: UTA alumna shares her journey of YouTube success". The Shorthorn. Archived from the original on 2023-09-11. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
      The article notes: "Megan Letter, UTA alumna and YouTuber, started her YouTube channel in her Vandergriff Hall dormitory making about $15 a month in 2014. But 3.6 million subscribers later, she’s now making more than a million annually. Letter’s main YouTube channel, “MeganPlays,” has gone through numerous changes from when she started as a college student studying graphic design. The channel mainly included "Roblox" content, a hub for games created by players, but she has pivoted to more vlog-style content since May with occasional "Roblox" videos."
    3. Gibson, Susie (2014-03-26). "Students seek appropriate majors". The Shorthorn. Archived from the original on 2023-09-11. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
      The article notes: "Art freshman Megan Leeds switched from nursing to art because she said being passionate about what she’s doing is far more important than pursuing a career for money."
There is sufficient coverage in
reliable sources to allow Megan Letter, also known as MeganPlays and previously known as Megan Leeds, to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".
Cunard (talk) 09:38, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply
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Megan Letter received substantial coverage in a Routledge book and in Bloomberg Businessweek. Through these two sources, she meets Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Basic criteria and Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline. Cunard (talk) 09:38, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Please assess newly located sources.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:24, 14 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep. Evaluating the sources, I think this is still borderline for GNG. I will lean keep on the basis of
WP:BASIC which explicitly notes If the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability. The book is a solid source, so combining the non-interview portions of Bloomberg and NPR, I think we have BASIC. —siro χ o 03:02, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply
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Keep per
WP:BASIC, as pointed out by Cunard's above sources. PantheonRadiance (talk) 20:15, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply
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