Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bloody Horror International Film Festival


 * 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, without prejudice against restoring to draft if sources meeting Wikipedia's criteria can be found. BD2412 T 00:57, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Bloody Horror International Film Festival

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No evidence this is a notable festival or award. No coverage in independent reliable sources. Praxidicae (talk) 15:11, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. Doesn't even appear to be a festival at this point - the website points you to their facebook page for basically all information, and looking over this year's facebook listings, they have "winners" but no screenings listed. No notability sighted. --Nat Gertler (talk) 16:04, 31 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. A-NEUN   &#10686;TALK&#10686;  16:54, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

I'm sorry but film festivals and independent film might not be your field of play. All the things you have listed above is completely false. It is a IMDB listed film festival. There you can see winners of 2019 and years past. Read IMDB's rules and regulations for adding a IMDB certified festival to their website. Please don't report wiki pages when you don't have done a background check. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tommyknockers99 (talk • contribs) 17:17, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not IMDb, and Wikipedia's standards need not be IMDb's standards, which accepts literally thousands of festivals. --Nat Gertler (talk) 18:07, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * You're right, film festivals aren't my forte but Wikipedia is. "It's on imdb" is the equivalent of "but it's on facebook!" Completely meaningless. Praxidicae (talk) 18:23, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * IMDB is a directory, not a conferrer of notability. Inclusion in IMDB means absolutely nothing about whether a film, a person involved in it, a production company or a film festival meets our inclusion standards or not. Bearcat (talk) 19:47, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:09, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:09, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

You say they list thousands of festivals which of course is true. There has been hundreds of thousands of film festivals through the years. To be listed on IMDB you have to be an established festival.

Praxidicae No it's absolutely not. You can't put up anything on IMDB, especially not film festivals. Please stay to your forte and don't report pages that is of use to the public. Please read the rules of IMDB when it comes to awards and festivals.

I'll put up some examples for you below.

Rules: Be current. Historical Events are not eligible at this time.

Be established for more than 5 years.

Have an official website.

Have a well-established jury or method of selecting winners. For example, anyone can start a website with voting mechanisms, and any would-be critic can select their favourite movies of the year and announce them on their own website or social media profile - these Events are not eligible.

Have received regular international or national press coverage (wide or trade). For example, a nationally broadcast awards ceremony or a festival award winner announced in recognized trade or other media publications would be eligible for listing. An Event with only local news, social media, fan or blog coverage is not eligible for listing at this time.

Wildcard: If the Event does not meet the above criteria, we will consider Events if they have generated a considerable amount of public interest. For example, if a festival premiered a movie that went on to win an Oscar, that Event would be considered for listing (please note, the Event should have played an important part in the movie's release, like a premiere - just screening it does not make the Event eligible unless the other criteria are met).

Why did you report this and call it "a not notable film festival" when it is following these rules of being established?

You have also claimed that they don't have a screening listed. Please watch their festival websites (Which 95% of all film festivals use) and you can see when their deadlines and screenings are scheduled. https://filmfreeway.com/BloodyHorrorFilmFestival

Please, in the future, don't report pages when you aren't familiar to the subject. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tommyknockers99 (talk • contribs) 19:23, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I checked the filmfreeway page. It has an event date but no actual, y'know, location. And lacking signs of significant coverage, it doesn't look like it qualifies for a Wikipedia page. Merely being an "established" festival in the eyes of IMDb does not make it notable. --Nat Gertler (talk) 07:34, 1 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. I looked for coverage in newspapers.com and got 0 results for the term. DiamondRemley39 (talk) 07:15, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 09:07, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. The referencing here is entirely to primary sources, not notability-making media coverage — and even on a ProQuest search for older coverage that might not Google, I still got not one shred of coverage about this, but merely a couple of stray references to bloody horror films in the Midnight Madness stream at TIFF. Film festivals are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because their own self-published web presence technically verifies that they exist — the notability test for a film festival is demonstrable significance, by virtue of having a volume of reliable source coverage in real media that passes WP:GNG and WP:ORGDEPTH, but none of the sources here are of the correct type. Bearcat (talk) 19:52, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - IMDB's inclusion criteria are not the same as Wikipedia's inclusion criteria. No coverage in reliable sources to establish notability. -- Whpq (talk) 14:05, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - per nom and discussion. TheAnayalator (talk) 22:14, 6 January 2020 (UTC)


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