Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Film Directors with Statues


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The result was   delete. Tone 20:04, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

List of Film Directors with Statues

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Doesn't seem like a notable intersection. Prod removed by author without comment. Sources are entirely unreliable. Nominator said "I am going to try to find an appropriate page for it to be merged onto, and need some time to do this." on their talk page but I really don't think there's a suitable target. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 20:52, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete More like trivia than something of encyclopedic value. Regent of the Seatopians (talk) 02:36, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Utterly trivial. Anyone can commission a statue of oneself or of anyone one likes; this is not something that would be considered "encyclopedic". Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:59, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment It's a nice short list, quite informative for our readers, and is surprisingly well and properly sourced. The article lists only eight very notable directors... who did NOT commision these works.  HOWEVER... Woody Allen's statue is already mentioned and sourced at Woody Allen.  Luis Buñuel's statue is mentioned and sourced at Luis Buñuel.  Charlie Chaplin has statues of him mentioned and sourced at Charlie Chaplin.  Jacques Tati's stutues are mentioned and sourcd in Jacques Tati.  Laurence Olivier's statues are mentioned and sourced in the lede of the Olivier article and a second mentioned and sourced at Laurence Olivier. Andrei Tarkovsky's statue is mentioned and sourced at Andrei Tarkovsky.  John Huston's statue is mentioned and sourced in the lede of his article.  John Ford's statue is mentioned and sourced at John Ford.  I am not rushing to the fore to delete this one, as the list does serve our readers even though the information is contained elsewhere.  If kept, the title will perhaps require changing to reflect that these posthumous statues were not comissioned by the notables themselves, and that the statues indeed have their own independent notability through WP:GNG... and so we DO have a decent intersection of notability.   Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 01:19, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree - I see no reason at all to delete this page. KConWiki (talk) 02:41, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment I originally created this page and Jonathan de Boyne Pollard was nice enough to improve it. I created it for the same reason I have created any page, its something that I would like to read or see as compiled data since web sources were difficult and I wasn't going to google "statue of (Insert notable director)" for the hundreds of filmmakers who may have a statue in some remote part of the world that I would never have heard of otherwise. I had therefore hoped that the article would be expanded by others much like the List of directors that have appeared in their own films page was (I'm still appalled that that large list is up for deletion, which did cause me to be a bit suspicious of all this). I do admit that I'm disappointed that either these are the only 8 (9 if you count Stallone, which I assume is frowned upon since he commissioned it and I'll just leave alone) statues of directors exist or I'm just the only one who finds this interesting. Either way, I'd like to see it stay for the simple reason that I find it interesting, but I'd have a lot of trouble arguing with a vote here. I will however say that I have no intention of being bullied by people who seem to think that a shiny bright star on their User page gives them the right to make decisions on their own. Yinzland (talk) 19:00, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:DIRECTORY which states: "Non-encyclopedic cross-categorizations, such as "People from ethnic/cultural/religious group X employed by organization Y" or "Restaurants specializing in food type X in city Y". Cross-categories like these are not considered sufficient basis to create an article, unless the intersection of those categories is in some way a culturally significant phenomenon." Big Bird (talk • contribs) 18:36, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
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