Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Family Home Entertainment


 * 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 redirect to Artisan Entertainment. Based on the discussion here, it seems like there is no indication of notability, just of existence, which is not enough to justify an article. There is a redirect suggestion and another comment that moving the article to draft space to preserve the content; seems like a redirect would serve both purposes so this is what I am going for. I will also semi protect the redirect to prevent any premature (without better sources or a WP:DRV discussion) restoration of the article. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 15:25, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Family Home Entertainment

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The page has recently been subject to massive edit warring, in which IPs incrementally added some material and other users were reducing it to a redirect, saying in the edit comments that the article is not independently notable, however, nobody ever cared to bring it here. Rather than continuing edit-warring, we need to discuss whather the company has any independent notability. My quick search did not reveal anything useful. Ymblanter (talk) 07:33, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
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 * Comment: References are spammed with links to directories. There are a small handful of articles and books that mention the company in passing, so we know it exists, but that is about it. If sources can be found that write about the company in more depth, the article should be kept. Maybe move to Draft space until that is done. – Jonesey95 (talk) 12:37, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete: No evidence of independent notability. By their very nature, obscure entertainment companies are covered so little in reliable sources that they are inevitable WP:CORPDEPTH failures. A look a Google Books only furthers this impression; there are simply scattered mentions of "Family Home Entertainment" to specify the distributor of a film or in a film catalog. The article's current sources, while numerous, are all mentions in directories or trivial coverage amounting to a single use of its name to identify a film's source. —0xF8E8 (talk) 02:28, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
 * No, it shouldn't be deleted. I mean, FHE isn't an obscure company, and without an article for it, nobody (not even VHS buffs) would even know what the company is anymore. 47.34.190.100 (talk) 05:14, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Artisan Entertainment and protect I would suggest a redirect. I don't see enough to have a separate article on this company. It can be covered adequately in the successor company. I suggest redirecting to Artisan Entertainment (with history intact) and protecting the redirect. This allows anyone to add material from the history while the article is no longer disrupted. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 05:41, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
 * No, a redirect to Artisan won't help things. I mean, without an article for FHE, nobody (not even VHS buffs) would even know what the company is anymore, and it's NOT a predecessor to Artisan in general, it was a DIVISION of the latter since 1985 when Artisan was established as IVE to keep FHE and U.S.A. as its separate imprints. Do you not see the parent company history in the infobox? 47.34.190.100 (talk) 05:07, 6 September 2016 (UTC)


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