Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of American films of 2018


 * 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 keep. clpo13(talk) 16:33, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

List of American films of 2018

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So what are going to do about this mess, huh. It appears this list was created simply for an unknown film whose “reference” is IMDb.... Well you already know the policy about IMDb. This list is not going to be updated with actual notable films like other countries and languages already have. We’re already in 2019. I think Wikipedia will be fine without having “list of American films of 2018” article because there countless other lists, articles, and categories that American films can and already do fall into. Because this ain’t it. Trillfendi (talk) 22:49, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

*Delete for now, unless someone wants to make it into a half-decent list, as in the previous years.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 08:52, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Mccapra (talk) 08:02, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * And now Keep per the excellent work done by to save the article. Nice one!  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 17:46, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 07:42, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 07:42, 12 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep - clearly the article needs a lot of work but it is a notable topic, article needs improving and not deleting Spiderone  09:59, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Draft move to draftspace as it is a notable topic but needs expansion and can go through the WP:AFC process, Atlantic306 (talk) 18:50, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:241:300:C930:F9ED:DB25:E38D:482C (talk) 21:51, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nomination.TH1980 (talk) 01:33, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep - WP:HEY I copied content similar to other year's lists (and removed the lone (non-notable) film). Not sure what the criteria of "American" is so I might have included too many. IMDb list 4000+ American films for 2018 so some might be missing too. StrayBolt (talk) 10:38, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * So instead of fixing the article you literally just created a WP:CFORK. That doesn’t help at all. That’s going to have to be undone. You can’t just copy one article and past it to the next.Trillfendi (talk) 17:04, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Until Wikipedia has better tools to filter tables or generate them from Wikidata, there will be violations of Don't repeat yourself. I started what has been done for other articles like List of American films of 2017 or List of British films of 2018. I did a first pass reducing the list to ones which said "US". I left the "Country" column until I knew if it was only-"US" or included-"US". The article can be expanded to include other info about American films. An alternative is to have the variety of style tables, as in other countries lists like List of Japanese films of 2018 or List of Australian films of 2018, but most of the content would still be the same. Maybe this should be worked out by WT:FILM. StrayBolt (talk) 20:02, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: To discuss the state of the article after substantial improvements on 17 January.
 * Comment. Just so everyone is aware, there is category covering every other year in American films Category:Lists of American films by year. It would not make sense to discuss this one but not the rest. Ajf773 (talk) 07:55, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   13:31, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. StrayBolt (talk) 19:25, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep, for now. Agree with and go for WP:MULTIAFD.  Immortal  Wizard  (chat)  20:13, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify, I am not suggesting MULTIAFD, but for improvements to WP like Category intersection or table filters to reduce the duplication of info. Views into these datasets would then become articles. Templates can be used now to reduce duplication and have only one source, in the same way this AfD is replicated in many discussions. StrayBolt (talk) 21:25, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
 * We can’t do 100+ AfDs at the same time.... Trillfendi (talk) 06:26, 25 January 2019 (UTC)


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