Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time


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The result was nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Donaldd23 (talk) 17:40, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

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Article fails WP:NFSOURCES. Hitcher vs. Candyman (talk) 22:04, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 22:31, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 22:32, 2 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep The spinoff film Find the Lady has reviews. Sequels/spinoffs don't usually happen unless the original film was notable enough. Finding reviews online today for a limited release Canadian film released in 1975 is difficult, but the fact it had a spinoff film. Seems a shame that a John Candy film is being questioned. (I know notability is not inherited, but it's John Freaking Candy.) Donaldd23 (talk) 00:33, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. The only actual problem here is that this article was created in 2006, a time when we did not have the same rules about citing sources directly in the article that we do today — at the time, as long as it was verifiable that the topic wasn't an outright hoax, you were allowed to start an article with no footnotes in it and it was simply presumed that footnotes would eventually get added. Yes, that was incredibly stupid of us, and left us cleaning up a lot of garbage, which is precisely why the rules have been tightened up in the intervening 15 years — but that also means you can't just delete a 15 year old article for lacking sources, without first checking whether sources are available to salvage it with or not. Which they are here: I've already added three solid sources to start from a Gerald Pratley book and a ProQuest search, and there are 46 more hits to sort through in a newspapers.com search (which I'll need some help retrieving, as search is free on there but retrieval isn't, so adding some or all of them will take a bit more time.) That's plenty enough for a WP:GNG pass: notability is based on the existence of suitable sources, not necessarily the current state of the article. Bearcat (talk) 14:17, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Sounds convincing enough Bearcat. I withdraw this nomination. Hitcher vs. Candyman (talk) 16:15, 3 December 2020 (UTC)


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