Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Confessions of a Go-Go Girl


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The result was keep. Eddie891 Talk Work 11:32, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Confessions of a Go-Go Girl

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Procedural nomination from Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 March 4.

Donaldd23 had previously removed a notability tag saying it should be sent to AfD, but Bovineboy2008 boldly redirected it as non-notable. RfD consensus was to send to AfD as the redirect target did not mention the film and therefore inappropriate. Legoktm (talk) 04:15, 14 March 2023 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 05:56, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film and Television.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 12:54, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment: It is a shame there is not more coverage of fare like this, and any internet coverage gets harder to find if not impossible after 15 years.  There's a filmpedia fandom page on the movie but it only cites two reviews from sites i don't know.  The movie used to have its own lifetime page, here's the archive link.  Nothing too helpful there, but this one comment is an incredible reaction: "I recently retired from stripping for 12 years. I am 32. I have been in go-go as well. I can say from experience that there are way more drugs and drama in go-go as apposed to naked. I was stupid for a long time and ran with bad people, that stole from me, left me in the middle of nowhere drunk with $900 in my pocket. I wasn't smart enough to come up with a plan. I was obsessed with the "I'm better than you attitude." After my second DUI I realized what this job had made me, the influence those "friends" had on me. Everyone around me had their hand out. Then I got beat up by police, they tried to ID me walking in Atlantic City with a male friend. Thinking I was a hooker, and because I refused the female officer beat me up. And after a night in jail, $5 grand on a lawyer for 3 charges that were false, I got it. Just walk away, I was gonna RUN away from the whole job. My boyfriend of 3 yrs got put through all this - because I needed to make $1100 in one night?? It's not real, none of it. With this money- nobody ever talks about the strings it comes with. The price you pay. Making $2000 a week - IS too good to be true. This movie depending on your personal experiences is true.. And most of the girls I worked with were like Angela. I have $200 shoes I didn't buy. A dancer will tell and brag about that, but she won't tell that she has to go on a date or dinner once a week with the guy. To keep him spending. And when you stop the money stops. Walking away was very hard, I had to move in with my sister and my boyfriend and I are just dating now. I let the business take over my life. But I got out, penniless, but I am alive and not selfish, nice, and best all I respect myself for all I been through. Hopefully when I tell my story it touches one person, are puts one light on for a young girl that thinks there's no strings in dancing. It's starts with that first drink that leads to everyday."--Milowent • hasspoken  21:07, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep, per the sources given below. Meets GNG. Oaktree b (talk) 19:47, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources. The article provides 380 words of coverage about the subject. The review notes: "Starring Chelsea Hobbs (The L Word) as Jane, the aforementioned girl gone wrong, Confessions is a little more risque than traditional Lifetime fare -- considering that Hobbs and friends are dancing around in their underwear for a significant portion of the film. ... If it were to end there, we'd probably wind up with a happy ending - a confident young woman with a few dollars in her G-string. But no. As you might imagine, things get seamy when Jane's new friends turn out to be, shall we say, morally half-full. ... You'll have to watch the movie to see whether Jane snaps out of it, but one thing is for certain: With two hours of beautiful women go-go dancing, Lifetime's male viewership could be the highest it's ever been." The article provides 147 words of coverage about the subject. The article notes: "No full frontals in Confessions Of A Go-Go Girl (Really), a 2008 TV movie of numbing boredom – even in fast forward mode. Jane decides to give up law school for briefs of a different kind. “I want to act,” she says, go-going to pay her way through acting school after her parents take back her tuition fees.  “I wouldn’t know how to dance like that,” she says after seeing a gogo girl. Think yourself lucky, girl, it’s dreadful. ... Alas, these dancers go out with a wimper not a bang. Please, don’t wake me up before you go-go." The article provides 111 words of coverage about the subject. The article notes: "This is a little racier than the usual Hallmark fare. Chelsea Hobbs plays Jane McCoy, an aspiring actress who gets into go-go dancing because her snobby parents will pay for law school but not for a drama course. ... Might we be heading into Requiem For A Dream territory? Based on a true story."Less significant coverage:<ol> <li> The book notes: "Confessions of a Go-Go Girl (Lifetime, 8/16/2008, 120 minutes). Chelsea Hobbs portrays a college grad who ditches law school for the limelight, and as an aspiring actress finds herself on the wrong kind of stage while awaiting her big break—but she also finds that that's where the easy money is." The book lists the production companies and cast.</li><li> The article provides 53 words of coverage about the subject. The article notes: "Confessions of a Go-Go Girl: Lifetime continues its August series of lurid-topic movies with this new entry starring Chelsea Hobbs as a wannabe actress who tries to make a few extra bucks as a dancer, and winds up risking her soul in the process. Corbin Bernsen and Rachel Hunter co-star. 8 p.m., LIFE"</li><li> The article provides 60 words of coverage about the subject. The article notes: "A young woman (Chelsea Hobbs) defies her parents' wishes and chooses a show-business career over law school."</li><li> The article provides 71 words of coverage about the subject. The article notes: "When Jane McCoy tells her parents she's ditching law school to become an actress they react by pulling their financial support."</li><li> The article provides 77 words of coverage about the subject. The article notes: "It's a story that's been told before, but not your typical Lifetime movie. A young woman (Chelsea Hobbs) defies her parents' wishes and chooses a show-business career over law school."</li></ol></li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Confessions of a Go-Go Girl to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 07:56, 21 March 2023 (UTC) </li></ul>
 * Keep: nice work finding sources by Cunard!  How did you find these archived sources, if I may ask?--Milowent • <sup style="position:relative">has<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-3.2ex;*left:-5.5ex;">spoken  18:12, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi . Thank you for reviewing the sources and for the kind words. I found most of these sources through NewsBank. In this comment, I discussed how I search for sources for articles that have been nominated for deletion. Cunard (talk) 06:23, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep in view of the multiple reliable sources coverage identified above including reviews so that WP:GNG is passed and deletion is unnecessary in my view, Atlantic306 (talk) 01:43, 28 March 2023 (UTC)


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