Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Feel-bad comedy


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The result was   delete. Gwen Gale (talk) 17:56, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Feel-bad comedy

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Highly subjective essay, with no referenced sources and a randomly assembled mini-list. Ecoleetage (talk) 02:45, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions.   -- --/M endaliv /2¢/Δ's/ 02:50, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions.   -- --/M endaliv /2¢/Δ's/ 02:50, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep if the article was expanded, included citations, and connected, but not merged, with Comedy, than I think it would make a pretty good article. Leonard^Bloom (talk) 03:12, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak delete -- I agree wholeheartedly with Leonard^Bloom about the possibilities, but Google doesn't have a huge number of hits on the phrase, which makes me think it's not sufficiently sourceable. Convince me otherwise so I can change my !vote.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 04:11, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment There are mentions of this term in some reliable sources (e.g., New York Times). However these may just be cursory, and also probably don't define the term. --/M endaliv /2¢/Δ's/ 04:17, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment/Reply — The way I see it, the term "feel-bad comedy" is although not well known, but as stated above in the New York Times, and this explains its lack of decent hits from Google (but it does retain a few, like this one). But, Google doesn't necessarily determine somethings notability. Sure, it's a good indicator, but when looking for notability on this case, I'm not going to go to Google; it doesn't yield anything except a couple blog posts, yet I voted keep (as I do on this one) because I feel it is notable. Another point: Although "feel bad comedy" isn't a reliable term, and the only hit I could find that showed decency was the New York Times, it could be said that this term is common sense; we know there are movies that present themselves with the intent to entertain, but also to depress, and this notion/idea needs an article. It's that simple. A case like this is rare; Google can not help with such an.. indepedent term. I hope that convinces you! I tried! Leonard^Bloom (talk) 16:46, 24 June 2008 (UTC)


 * redirect or merge with Black comedy. -- Ned Scott 10:48, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete unless sourced; appears to be original research at this point.-Les boys (talk) 21:18, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. I understand the concept, but I do not think the term "feel bad comedy" is used to describe it. As such, this article is OR and should be deleted. Doctorfluffy (robe and wizard hat) 17:51, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Isn't this a tragicomedy? Like Muriel's Wedding? Tragicomic is the term i know, this one is non-notable.Yobmod (talk) 15:24, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per lack of notability. Perhaps the term is used, but it does not seem to have been fleshed out by any reliable sources.  It would need to be more than a single source, though, to warrant an article.  If there is reliable sourcing, there can be a few sentences at comedy. — Erik  (talk • contrib) - 13:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)


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