Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fright Meter Awards


 * 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   Delete all. The consensus below is that the awards are not notable for Wikipedia purposes. Eluchil404 (talk) 04:42, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Fright Meter Awards

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Online awards of questionable notability, presented by a website of questionable notability. No indications of notability, no independent references provided. Google news search on "Fright Meter Awards" shows zero results. Standard search shows only 121 unique entries - the majority from primary sources - the rest mainly blogs and other primary references - no significant coverage from independent reliable sources found. MikeWazowski (talk) 22:58, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I am also nominating the following related pages for the same reasons: MikeWazowski (talk) 23:02, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

What would be needed to keep the page for the Awards, which are becoming recognized in the horror community? The DVD cover art for The Wrong House, which won a Fright Meter Award has a large mention of the award on it. Also, this year, recipients Pollyanna McIntosh (The Woman) and Lin Shaye (Insidious) acknowledge their win and provided interviews and have discussed the award. While they might not be as prevalent as some of the other awards, they are gaining attention. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Troyesc (talk • contribs) 23:25, 2 March 2012 (UTC) — Troyesc (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

Link to DVD with mention of Award: The Wrong House DVD

Mention of the Awards on Production Company site: The Woman  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Troyesc (talk • contribs) 23:36, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment: Basically in order to be kept, you need to show that this award is notable and passes WP:GNG, which requires that you show that this award has been mentioned in multiple independent and reliable publications. Brief mentions (such as quotes or mentions on DVD covers) don't count towards notability, nor does anything that was released by the people who run the awards show, such as press releases or websites. If the show's owners/representatives did an interview with an independent and reliable site (such as Fangoria or Dread Central), those interviews would count towards notability as long as they were about the award show and were in-depth. An interview that the show did with themselves or with a star that just got nominated or won one of their awards wouldn't. It'd be a primary source and you can only use those when there's multiple independent sources to back up the claims in the article. You've got to be aware that most awards shows/ceremonies don't pass the very strict guidelines for notability here, so you've got to be careful to find proper sources. I'll see what I can find, but no guarantees.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 04:26, 3 March 2012 (UTC)tokyogirl79
 * Delete: I did a search with and without quotations and found that this is just an award given out by a Blogger blog without any ceremony or trophy. Being a blog or not having the trophy or ceremony doesn't automatically disqualify it, mind you. There's just no coverage of this award in reliable secondary sources, which is what ultimately is needed to pass notability guidelines. I do see where a few blogs covered it, but this just doesn't pass notability guidelines at this point in time. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 05:21, 3 March 2012 (UTC)tokyogirl79


 * Delete all Awards Committee] is the best proof that it is just an internet vote. Google Search returns just 48 mentions on "Fright Meter Award", including the organising frightmeter.com and twitter. Clearly fails WP:GNG. Night of the Big Wind  talk  04:29, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 19:57, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
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