Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Inside Out Film and Video Festival


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The result was keep. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 23:40, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Inside Out Film and Video Festival

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Article currently has no references. A Google News search turns up only 4 hits, only one of which discusses the festival in any depth (the article at Toronto.com discuses the festival's films, which verifies that it does indeed exist, but if the festival were notable, why aren't there more sources on it?). There doesn't seem to be any published material to support any of the extensive claims made in the article. Without more published reliable secondary verifiable sourcing, this looks like it doesn't meet WP:GNG. A loose necktie (talk) 17:37, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Yes, this does need additional references — but it's just an old article that was written to old content and sourcing standards, and hasn't been actively improved lately. For a film festival that's been around since 1991, however, a cursory Google News search is not going to be the be-all and end-all of whether or not the referencing exists to repair it with — Google News will only find references published within the last year or two, and will not find anything older, so one also needs to search archival news databases like ProQuest or newspapers.com, as well as books. Google News also does not scrape sources like Playback or the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, both of which have very definitely written about this. And on top of that, even on a Google News search itself, I'm finding a lot more than just four sources — I'm betting that nominator just searched on the exact phrase "Inside Out Film and Video Festival", and didn't try alternate search terms to see if sources like this and this and this wrote about it without actually using its full official name. Four sources? No: fifteen sources and counting, and I ain't even done upgrading it yet. Bearcat (talk) 19:18, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep WP:HEY upgrade from shows a clear pass of WP:GNG. Thanks for putting in the work to improve the article. Bakazaka (talk) 04:22, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep per HEY from Bearcat, clear notability. Nosebagbear (talk) 21:59, 12 April 2019 (UTC)


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