Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of films featuring May-December romances (2nd nomination)


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The result was keep. Phoenix -  wiki  20:58, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

List of films featuring May-December romances
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An indiscriminate list based around a dubious neologism. We don't even have an article for 'May-December romance', so it seems absurd to have a list of films that feature them; and without any clear criteria for what constitutes such a romance, any decision to add/remove a film to this list is ultimately arbitrary. In other words: this list is unverifiable, non-neutral and basically entirely original research. Terraxos (talk) 21:27, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment May-December romance redirects to Age disparity in sexual relationships. Obviously the naming of the article according to a neologism is poor and needs to change. I think the article could be imporved but I cannot see anyway this can ever have any solid criteria. Terms like social disapproval are weasely -- neon white user page talk 03:16, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep The last time this was put up for AfD, I added about thirty refs for the films, and that seemed to satisfy people. I'm a bit lazy to do that again, but MDRs in film and otherwise are discussed in a lot of scholarly articles, especially ones interetested in feminism.  I don't have the energy to create a page all about it, or add another bunch of refs, so the best I can do in 30 seconds of google searching is point out this google news search which seems to point to the "neologism" being quite common.  Also, it's actually a term that dates from at least the 1940's, and is probably a lot older, so our rules about neologisms don't really apply.  I think I'd call it more of an old saw, if anyone is old enough to know that term for "saying." - Peregrine Fisher (talk) 03:24, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I accept I was wrong to call it a 'neologism', but I still don't think it's an appropriate title for the page. If it is kept, it should be renamed to something neutral like List of films depicting a relationship with a significant age disparity - which shows what a silly topic for an article this really is, IMO. Terraxos (talk) 04:29, 10 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep and do not rename. Keep for the reasons of Peregrine Fisher.  Do not rename because WP:NAME says an article should prefer what the greatest number of speakers would recognize.  In film, these romances are known as "May-December" they are not known as "Films depicting a relationship with a significant age disparity".  What is the supposed non-neutrality of "May-December" anyways?  I'm really quite curious to hear that one. --JayHenry (talk) 05:37, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable, sources are available, and the name is the customary one. It is not indiscriminate, since it is limited to major films which have a WP article. DGG (talk) 19:09, 10 January 2008 (UTC)


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