Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fear of Girls


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The result was delete. Legoktm (talk) 01:31, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Fear of Girls

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Article about a short film series, not properly sourced as having any strong claim to passing WP:NFO. The main notability claim here is that the first episode went viral, but that's not well-quantified by reliable sources -- of the seven footnotes here, one is just reduplicated repetition of one of the others, so there are really only six distinct sources, but three of those are its own self-published content about itself, one more is a Slashdot post, and the only two that actually come from real WP:GNG-worthy media are both just "local kids do stuff" in the local media of their own hometown, thus failing to establish wider significance. Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt this from having to have much, much stronger referencing than this is showing. Bearcat (talk) 20:13, 19 September 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 23:27, 26 September 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 22:00, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film and Minnesota. Bearcat (talk) 20:13, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Weak Keep. I also was able to find a multi-paragraph story:
 * , Johnson, Lisette. Jewish Exponent; Philadelphia [Philadelphia]. 22 Mar 2007: 42. That talks about about the the business viability of the online video market and the platform it's on: Ryan Wood's seven-minute short film was shown at the Toronto Film Festival. Then he posted it on a new kind of Web site that pays filmmakers - professional or amateur - each time viewers click on their work. and Nor would Wood disclose how much he earned from two films he's posted on the site, "Pitching Mother" and "Fear of Girls." Even though "Fear of Girls," his latest, is one of Revver's most-viewed films, with more than 9,500 hits.
 * It also seems like it got an additional one paragraph review/blurb in the Star (so same source as largely used but another writer): Arginteanu, Judy, et al. "item world; local news and views." Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN], 3 Feb. 2006, p. 02F. Gale General OneFile. Accessed 4 Oct. 2022.: The hip, 21st-century phrase is "viral internet marketing," but it sounds suspiciously like good ol' word of mouth. Whatever, it's responsible for the runaway e-success of "Fear of Girls," an endearingly comic 11-minute ode to nerddom .... by Wednesday it hit the No. 1 spot of top blogsites on Daypop.com.
 * This doesn't do much other than as a bit of extra, but it seems that the official Google Video blog did a short interview with Wood about it:
 * So, not super strong but it seems to just meet WP:GNG. Skynxnex (talk) 15:02, 4 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete. Fails WP:SIGCOV. The sources provided by Skynxex are merely passing mentions and do not rise to the level of analysis/detail that we would need to consider it significant coverage. None of the sources listed are about the series directly, except for the video interview which can not be used to prove GNG because as an interview it lacks independence from the subject. If we had some independent reviews of this web series that would be significant RS, but as it is there just isn't enough here to demonstrate notability.4meter4 (talk) 02:31, 5 October 2022 (UTC)


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