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Deletion of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Eye_Honors
Hi, I'm curious about your deletion of the relatively new page related to the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking. It was an A7 - speedy deletion - "that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant". I don't remember the article in total specificity, but the Cinema Eyes have been a major development in the world of documentary filmmaking this year and represent a significant movement of filmmaking that is not journalistic or social consciousness-based. Here are just a few references:

http://www.indiewire.com/biz/2008/03/manda_bala_wins.html http://www.indiewire.com/ipop/2008/03/cinema_eye_hono_1.html http://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/2008/03/thoughts_on_the_cinema_eye_awa.html http://www.ifc.com/film/indie-eye/2008/03/the-firstever-cinema-eye-award.php http://www.thereeler.com/the_blog/cinema_eye_honors_open_wide_for_nyc.php http://weblogs.variety.com/variety_on_the_town/2008/03/kudos-keep-eye.html http://defamer.com/369688/ http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/cinema_eye_honors_nonfiction_moviemakers_20080314/ http://resources.renewmedia.org/2008/03/11/cinema-eye-honors-debut-in-new-york-city/

Full disclosure, I am one of the founders of the awards, but I do find it a strange "speedy deletion" - it wasn't like people got together in a living room and handed out prizes made of foil.

Thanks, ajschnack (talk)
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 * Your creation of all those pages set off my conflict of interest and spam alarms. I don't think that your awards are notable enough to each have a separate page, and I'm not sure how many of the sources you mentioned are reliable — they look like blogs to me — but I think a single page for all the awards might work. If you want to work on the article over a period of time without risking it being deleted, consider creating a user subpage where it won't be deleted. However, you may wish to consider writing about your award scheme on your own website and not Wikipedia. Stifle (talk) 08:20, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Hm, blogs at PBS and IFC and Variety aren't reliable? indieWIRE is not a blog, it's an online news service that feeds to the AP.  The person who created the awards pages was trying to build based on similar pages for other independent film awards.  If you can re-instate the page, I will ask them to consolidate to a single page.  Thanks.  Ajschnack (talk) 20:47, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Indeed, blogs are not reliable sources. What one page would you like restored? (Just to be clear, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, so the lists of nominees won't be included.) Stifle (talk) 20:50, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * If you can restore the main Cinema Eye Honors page, that would be great. I'll forward the information on and have them focus on the basic info and remove nominees, etc.Ajschnack (talk) 03:41, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

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