Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kosovo: Can You Imagine?


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The result was   keep. JForget 00:15, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Kosovo: Can You Imagine?

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This article has the same issues as the recently deleted article on its director, Articles for deletion/Boris Malagurski (see that page for details). It's presented as way more important than it actually is.

When you first look at it, you'll notice it cites articles from the Daily Telegraph and Human Rights Watch. But none of these sources mention the film or its director at all.

The article cites a brief statement by a journalist (Scott Taylor), which alone of course doesn't make the article notable, but which at least, along with other sources possibly could help establish notability. However, there is no source for the quote, and when I search for it, it's only mentioned on Wikipedia, Wikipedia mirrors, Stormfront ("SUPPORT SERBIA THREAD") and a blog.

Except an interview at a blog, the sources are not in English.

As far as the awards are concerned, it was established by the discussion concerning Boris Malagurski that they are not notable:
 * "BC Days Documentary Film Festival 2009" in Canada is just extremely obscure
 * "Winner, Silver Palm Award - Mexico International Film Festival 2009" may look impressive at first glance, if you don't know he was in fact one of 76 winners of that award, and only in the category "Student Films" along with 13 other student film makers
 * The fact that the film was screened at a film festival in East Sarajevo doesn't indicate notability either. Urban XII (talk) 12:26, 26 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom.  kedadi al  13:51, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Ondertitel (talk) 19:39, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions.  —PC78 (talk) 10:45, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep The nom's concerns toward article style are best addressed by cleanup and not deletion. Though not all certainly, many of the sources used appear credible and would seem to meet WP:GNG and thus WP:NF... and it must be remembered that documentarry films rarely get the coverge of studio financed blockbusters, so notability is not dependent upon popularity.  While the deletion of the article on the filmaker himself recieved input about its notability as a BLP, this is a different article and a different AfD about a different topic.  The earlier AfD made repeated mention of the non-English sources. Per WP:CSB, non-English sources are allowble if translations are properly attributed. Article will now be going through some cleanup. I'll report back. MichaelQSchmidt (talk) 20:52, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep as per MichaelQSchmidt. -- Cin é ma C 22:04, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Link [9] is non working, Link [10] roughly translates to the author notified us that he won an award at the Mexican International Film Festival and that his movie "Kosovo: Can You Imagine?" was proclaimed the best film at the Documentary Film Festival "BC Days". It also mentions that the movie made it into the final selection of the International Film Festival in Sarajevo. Link [11] contains a carbon copy of the information in Link [10]. --Radicale (talk) 20:07, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep The Ambassador's comment, the news coverage, and the awards, make it clearly notable. If you searched for its name in other languages, you'd surely find more mention of it.   D r e a m Focus  04:04, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
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