Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A Century of Cinema


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 22:35, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

A Century of Cinema

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I've prodded this with "The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing General notability guideline requirement nor the more detailed Notability (films) supplementary essay. WP:BEFORE did not reveal any significant coverage on Gnews, Gbooks or Gscholar.". It was deproded by User:Mushy Yank with the following comment: "gathers many major figures of the film industry". I am afraid that sounds like WP:INHERITED, We can discuss this further here, at AfD, but right now, this does not look like a notable film (documentary). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 19:06, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film and History. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  19:06, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
 * 'Comment Each and every one of the 50, 60? interviewees is such a major figure of the film industry that to see them all gathered on the occasion of and about the hundredth anniversary of their art makes this BFI production very seemingly notable. It’s not inherited notability, it would be just inherent to such an amazing collective display, I think. It could be an evident keep. But the C. Thomas who made it is not the one linked on the page and I can find no real evidence of the film except the BFI page. Not even a youtube link. Even the poster shows a different title. Doubts Has anyone seen the film?—MY OH MY 19:40, 11 February 2023 (UTC)•
 * @Mushy Yank This is likely a the sad and hardly unsual case of a work that could be important, but was obviously poorly marketed/archived and failed to become important. Or notable. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 04:21, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete Notability is not inherited. In order to have an encyclopedic article about this topic, we would need significant coverage in reliable sources about the documentary itself, not just the figures it covers. I looked for them, and didn't find any. Jfire (talk) 23:25, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Weak delete ("weak" because the criticism is more of the film than of the article). The film is absurdly USA-centric: had the makers never heard of films from France, Italy, Spain, England, Mexico, etc.? Did they not think of including Pedro Almodóvar, Alain Delon, Penélope Cruz, Sophia Loren, Claudia Cardinale etc. among their so-called celebrities? The film supposedly celebrated the centenary of something or other that happened in 1894, but what? The film industry is usually considered to date from 1895 (not 1894) with the work of the Frères Lumières such as L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat. In other words the film industry started in France, not the USA. Athel cb (talk) 11:37, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete, I'm not finding significant coverage of the article and nothing is leading me to believe that it exists. Horse Eye&#39;s Back (talk) 02:02, 13 February 2023 (UTC)


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