Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of British films


 * 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 delete. Dakota 22:20, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

List_of_British_films
Several reasons to remove this page: it's obviously listcruft; which films make the page and which don't is entirely subjective; to actually list every British film is absurd and unnecessary because this could just be a category instead. Stellis 01:41, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Full list would be extremely long. Category works better Bwithh 01:42, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per Bwithh M1ss1ontom a rs2k4 (T 01:47, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment Which films make the page isn't subjective at all; it's a list of British films. While the original author may have been subjective in hir choice of films, films are not subjectively British. Listing every notable British film would be an extremely long list, but probably possible with the help of IMDB, too. Imban 02:00, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Listcruft, unmaintainable. -Royalguard11 (Talk·Desk) 02:00, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Make a category for it. P.B. Pilh  e  t  /  Talk  02:58, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete listcruft. TJ Spyke 03:06, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep I see nothing wrong with this list. - Mike | Talk 04:10, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete A list of every British film ever made? Poppycock.--  the ninth bright shiner   talk 04:34, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Categorize. Delete. The list is too subjective as it stands, and if it were made complete, it would be far too long. --N Shar 04:35, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * There already exists a Category:British films. Andrew Levine 04:45, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, much better as category. Andrew Levine 04:45, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I believe most of the contained infomation is repeated in other articles. AQu01rius (User | Talk | Websites) 04:48, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete this has no inclusion criteria and would be ridiculously long (as well as inviting numerous nn additions which would be hard to control). Do we have a category for British films with articles? └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 09:36, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Re Imban above:  It's not that simple.  Films don't have nationalities.  Are we meaning films made in Britain (with US stars, director, producer, writers, money)?  Films made by British directors with British stars in Hollywood?  Films filmed in UK studios and on location in other countries, by American directors?.  It's all too complicated to bother and would produce an unmanageable list.  Emeraude 09:41, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete bit of a ridiculous list to have. --Alex (Talk) 12:40, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep if its good enough for a category, its good enough for a list. Jcuk 22:44, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Before voting/commenting I went and checked some the relevant articles and added, where appropriate, (I got to 1980's if anybody wants to continue) to Category:British films, many of the wikilinks are incorrect -going to books plays, characters etc, films are being added which aren't British (I used IMDb for definition - which refers to UK films, which also has it's own category), So unless supporters of the article want to do a complete re-write, I think deletion would be a kindness. --Richhoncho 23:43, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep I got to this page searching for "list of british films" so it would be nice to keep it, at least redirecting to the category page(i don't know if it's possible), other reason to keep it is that it's classified by year (witch may be useful).
 * Delete Why have a list where a category will suffice? Already, wiki has problems ensuring categories are correct and up to date. Admittedly, it's easier to create a list to modify all the entries in one go, but it defeats to whole purpose of wikicategories to have properly maintained lists and not categories. If it's useful for people to know which decade a film is from, I think that subcategories of for example '1980s British films' could be created. Ohconfucius 02:25, 26 October 2006 (UTC)


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