Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anarchic comedy film


 * 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. Regardless of the comments here, most of the article is a copyvio from allmovie and has been for most of its history. (i.e. this page). There may well be an article to be written on the subject, but you can't use any of this.

I recreated the title as a useful redirect to Comedy film, where it is mentioned - only to find that paragraph was a copyvio as well :-/  I have rewritten it. Black Kite (talk) 20:18, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Anarchic comedy film

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Contested prod. This article has been tagged as unreferenced for more than 5 years, and tagged for OR for more than 4-and-a-half years. What we have here is a lot of opinion, speculation, and original research for a so-called film genre that is not recognized by any established film sources. With no agreed upon definition, and no sources, editors are free to add whatever they like to the article, which they have been doing for more than long enough.  RepublicanJacobite  TheFortyFive 23:45, 8 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete No evidence or sources given to show notability. It reads more like someone's opinions. Kitfoxxe (talk) 00:13, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 01:30, 9 July 2012 (UTC)




 * Keep Yup, article has not been improved, but so what? Better we encourage WP:CLEANUP of this valid topic which has a number of quite suitable sources.     ... book and news searches for this topic that will require gleaning for information. My argument is, even if the article has been neglected, the topic itself is widely souracble and the article can be improved.  Wikipedia knows that is itself an imperfect, knows that it is itself a work-in-progress, and pretty has no deadline that an article be improved... just so long as sources exist and improvement is possible... sometime.  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 04:13, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. The phrase is used as a description, similar to "wacky comedy", but I'm not seeing any indication it is considered a notable subgenre by reliable sources. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:05, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Merge to Comedy film, where it already has a paragraph. I can't say that I agree with many of the unsourced claims in the article, so care should be taken with the merger, if it should come to pass. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:51, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * We do not require that reliable sources themselves consider it as a "notable subgenre". Wikipedia notability for even a sub-genre is dependent upon that topic being discussed and analyzed in multiple reliable sources. That said, this topic might reasonably be merged and redirected to a discussion of it as a sub-genre... but in another article.  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 22:56, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Reconsidering ... Clarityfiend (talk) 04:01, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. It was after taking a look at various search results, I realized we have options that serve the project far better than would an outright deletion.  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 16:18, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Needs improvement. Bearian (talk) 19:04, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:28, 16 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Possibly redirect or merge to Slapstick film, which isn't an exact match but covers a significant amount of the same content. Having an article on "anarchic comedy" may be defensible, as that term is more widely used, but I can't see evidence for the notability of this narrower topic (which includes film humor I'd describe as slapstick, visual gags, and caper comedy).  If this was sourced I'd confidently suggest saving the content, maybe moving to anarchic comedy. If someone wants to improve it, it could still be saved (I suspect that if you moved it without improving, someone would AfD it sooner or later). --Colapeninsula (talk) 11:25, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.