Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of British films of the 2010s


 * 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 all. I would close this AfD with consensus to merge, but there is no appreciable content to merge anywhere. I'll delete the articles; if anyone believes they are plausible search terms, feel free to re-create them as redirects. ‑Scottywong | squeal _ 04:35, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

List of British films of the 2010s

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These pages are a category (or disambiguation) masking as an article.

Also includes
 * List_of_British_films_of_the_1920s
 * List_of_British_films_of_the_1930s
 * List_of_British_films_of_the_1940s
 * List_of_British_films_of_the_1950s
 * List_of_British_films_of_the_1960s
 * List_of_British_films_of_the_1970s
 * List_of_British_films_of_the_1980s
 * List_of_British_films_of_the_1990s
 * List_of_British_films_of_the_2000s => Spudgfsh  ( Text Me! ) 16:53, 4 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Merge all the content into List of British films and redirect as possible search terms.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 19:24, 4 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Merge per Lugnuts's recommendation. We do not need to break out into decade. Consolidation is appropriate here. Erik (talk &#124; contrib) (ping me) 19:30, 4 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment what does having a list of other pages give you that a category does not? Even if you merge all of the pages onto List of British films that page is effectively a diambiguation page and/or a category masquerading as an article. It provides no other information than a list of pages would.  =>  Spudgfsh  ( Text Me! ) 20:14, 4 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Merge to List of British films, and same for any other country and delink in templates. @Spudg, it's intended as a dab page.♦ Dr. Blofeld  20:16, 4 February 2014 (UTC)


 * There's no masquerading here. Per WP:CLT, we can theoretically have categories, lists, and navigation templates for the same subject matter. (Though probably not navigation templates here since it would be too large.) It is acceptable to have a list of lists. Erik (talk &#124; contrib) (ping me) 20:21, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I appreciate your point but what would the merge onto List of British films give you over and above what having Template:British_film_list on the page currently gives you? => Spudgfsh  ( Text Me! ) 20:56, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Spudg, do us a favour and also put the other decade dab pages up for delete and they can also all be merged into the mother list. There's no point in having multiple dabs page, we can redirect the decade pages then.♦ Dr. Blofeld  21:03, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
 * They're all marked for deleting and pointing to this discussion. I just couldn't work out how to easily get the template for them.  A bit of lazyness on my part, sorry =>  Spudgfsh  ( Text Me! ) 21:07, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

No worries. Obviously for some of the countries in which we don't yet have enough films for by year, we currently use the decade pages to list all the films of the decade in and we don't want to nuke those! But for all of the decade pages which are currently dab pages to the years they should all be redirected into the main list of xxx films by country lists.♦ Dr. Blofeld  21:30, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I assume that there are other 'list of XXXX films of the yyyy's' for other countries (eg List of Italian films of the 1990s) that are of a similar nature. Making this change wiki-wide would be better as a discussion on a wikiproject like WikiProject Film where a consensus can be gained throughout all of the members.   =>  Spudgfsh  ( Text Me! ) 20:16, 5 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 00:04, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 00:04, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 00:04, 5 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Redirect They are lists of lists. Utterly useless but we might as well keep the pages as redirects.  Neonchameleon (talk) 00:57, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete all These lists of lists serve no useful purpose. The subject is much better covered by Category:Lists of British films by year.  We might have an equivalent list article for that, but it would be rather pointless.  The annual lists are useful, but the decade lists (and also decade categories) just get in the way of navigation, not help it.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:27, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
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