Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Detective (2019 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 soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗ plicit  14:12, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

Detective (2019 film)

 * – ( View AfD View log | edits since nomination)

Film of unclear notability and uncertain release status. When I first encountered this a few days ago, it was still titled "upcoming film" rather than "2019 film", but the article had existed since 2015 and was being generically categorized as a "2010s film", so after finding a few directory entries which ascribed it a 2019 release date I moved it to "2019 film" -- however, another user has now questioned the accuracy of those directory entries, and suggested that it's still not properly verifiable whether the film has even been released yet as of 2022. But as always, Wikipedia does not want to indiscriminately maintain an article about every single film that enters the production pipeline without regard to whether it ever comes out the other end as a completed and released film or not, and there isn't nearly enough sourcing here to exempt it from the primary notability criteria for films at WP:NFO: four of the six footnotes are dead links, the other two are fairly short blurbs not substantive enough to secure permanent notability all by themselves, and even if the dead links prove recoverable by somebody with much better access to Bangladeshi media archives than I have, six footnotes still really wouldn't be enough "production coverage" to give an unreleased film an NFF-based exemption from NFO anyway. So I'm willing to withdraw this if somebody with better access to Bangladeshi sources can find solid confirmation that it actually has been released — but if the film actually has so little coverage that it's still in this much doubt whether it was ever actually released in the first place, then it's a film we really shouldn't have an article about at all, and even if it has been released, it still needs improved sourcing to support that anyway. Bearcat (talk) 13:38, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film and Bangladesh. Bearcat (talk) 13:38, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete I'm the "another user" refered to in the nomination. The dead links have been repaired. There are more sources available (like the three Bengali language ones in the external links section). And at least one source more recent than 2016 does exist: fleetingly describes the film in October 2019 as a film the director "is trying to make". The sources, however, are essentially all regurgitated press releases from the production company, gushing about how the film will be completed soon (that was in 2015). There is no independent analysis in secondary sources.
 * I concur with Bearcat that Wikipedia is not meant to be an indiscriminate database of all films that ever began production. An article should be more than just an announced list of cast and crew. Policy WP:NOTPLOT tells us that the encyclopedia should treat creative works in an encyclopedic manner, discussing their development, design, reception, significance, and influence. No independent, in-depth sources exist on which we could base such an article. --Worldbruce (talk) 14:49, 10 November 2022 (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.