Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Independent movie boom


 * 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. While an article about this topic may well be written, the "keep" arguments ignore that the currently contested content is completely unsourced which means that, per WP:B (in particular WP:BURDEN), it has to go.  Sandstein  20:14, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Independent movie boom

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A bit of undercooked WP:OR that adds nothing to the comprehension of its subject. Ecoleetage (talk) 00:46, 2 October 2008 (UTC) 
 * Delete WP:OR, no reliable sources. States that "During this time it seemed more inependent films were made than ever" and "Film scholars have argued exactly when the start of the independent movie boom began, although most agree it was sometime in the 1980s". What's left of that article is more of the same. original research filled with weasel words. Doc StrangeMailbox Logbook 22:45, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Spot of Googling quickly shows up uses of the term to refer to a particular period of film history. Article is unsourced and needs cleaning up, but this is a viable topic, and the article is a viable stub in pursuit of that topic. Phil Sandifer (talk) 01:33, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  TravellingCari  20:14, 6 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Merge to Independent movie. Doesn't look like there's enough material to support this specific facet of the "independent movie" topic to warrant its own page at this time, whereas that page already has substantial historical perspective. DMacks (talk) 20:19, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge as per DMacks. Proxy User (talk) 21:24, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  23:44, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete since there is nothing to salvage from this article, and if there is any substance to this boom, discuss it at the article independent film. — Erik (talk • contrib) - 23:49, 6 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Merge To independent movie. rootology ( C )( T ) 17:46, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect to History_of_film, no real content here that's worth merging anywhere. --147.70.176.164 (talk) 22:54, 8 October 2008 (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.