Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival


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The result was Keep, per newfound sources. Xoloz 03:10, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival

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Unreferenced article on a non-notable film festival. Could not find any evidence of non-trivial coverage on Google or Google News archive. MER-C 11:21, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak delete - I see a lot of blue links to filmmakers who seem to be able to rate their own articles who have participated, but as the nom notes, there's no coverage out there. I got 565 G-hits when searching 'Lausanne Underground Film Festival' - not a lot, really. Tony Fox (arf!) 19:31, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment try a search for 'Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival' as it is properly titled and you will find another 1000 references. Not sure the value of this number though.  The festival features films from all over the world.  Last years feature winner was an American film.  It is listed officially on the | Swiss Film Agencies list of Swiss film festivals.  It is featured in the Swiss French newspapers when it runs.  Again I think this is an attack because something isn't mainstream and well known.  Wikepedia is in danger of becoming a reference of only well known things.  That isn't much of a reference. User:Geoff13 User_talk:Geoff13 14:00, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
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 * Keep I think what Geofff found is sufficient, though the references need to be added. DGG 02:49, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep I agree with Geofff (and DGG...). Moumine70 10:01, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep agree with above Think outside the box 12:14, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Provisional Keep. It's the editors responsibility to source the article and even though Geoff's comments were made almost a week ago I see no change in the article. Geoff, its not an attack on non-mainstream things, its an attack on non-sourced articles. Would you fix it up?  Jody B   talk 13:35, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete I believe Geoff's only interest in keeping this is because he was using it as a source to keep his own articles. All supposed references are mainly directory entries, Wikipedia references, and other trivial sources. Actual Ghits are ~80. Phony Saint 14:52, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment JodyB I'm off to Hong Kong for a week today and to be honest my own article had multiple independent sources (references to about four film festival websites with articles about it, IMDB and its own website) and was still deleted partly because of it not having multiple independent sources and secondly because winning an award at LUFF was not notable. To be honest I don't think that was the main reason for its deletion.  I am not encouraged to contribute any further to Wikepedia. If Wikepedian's like Phony Saint do not want to learn anything about underground film it is their loss.  User:Geoff13 05:30, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep As per Geoff. cheers, Cas Liber | talk  |  contribs 13:55, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
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