Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of films in North Carolina


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The result was delete. Sr13 06:10, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

List of films in North Carolina

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Indiscriminate collection of information. An article about the film business in North Carolina would be encyclopedic. This is not. Corvus cornix 02:43, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete not encyclopedic. Oysterguitarist~Talk 02:50, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete no citation... and no differentiation between film filmed in NC or about NC... This is the type of article, however, that I would be willing to reconsider my vote on.Balloonman 03:00, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak delete as I believe this is a topic that could be sourced, although unless the list is limited to productions in North Carolina it would be unencyclopedic trivia. There are few enough US/NA films made outside of Hollywood that this shouldn't be unmanageable. The present article, however, isn't worth keeping in its present state. --Dhartung | Talk 03:26, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film and TV-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 08:09, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of North Carolina-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 08:10, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. A list of films by filming location is largely trivial information.  If it were a sufficiently rare occurance then I could see a blurb about it on North Carolina, but when the list becomes too large for the parent article, it is likely an indication that the distinction is no longer notable.  Ark yan  &#149; (talk) 15:48, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete because Wikipedia is not a directory. This is bad precedent to create "List of films in State".  There is no encyclopedic worth for this listing, especially if a movie is filmed in a studio in that state, which would be just like filming in a studio in Hollywood (with unnecessary differences in budget detail).  If a film is known for its North Carolina locations, then it can be described on the respective film articles.  There's no reason to create an otherwise indiscriminate list. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 19:23, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, although if the state is really the third-biggest location in the U.S., an article could be written. Other location articles exist, as shown at Category:Lists of films by location (I don't know how to properly format the category link, help would be appreciated). Noroton 21:52, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, on second look, more than half of the articles in this category Category:Lists of films by location are "List of films set in ...". Maybe more should be checked out for possible deletion. Noroton 21:58, 21 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete very poor written article, unsourced except the link.--JForget 23:17, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete quite different from films set in (which are keepers in my book). Because so much of modern film making is parceled out all over the place (special effects in California, filming in studios in North Carolina perhaps, but on location maybe in New York, editing in Washington state, etc., you get the point...) a film by where its made becomes a quagmire of most movies being "made" virtually anywhere and having little or nothing in common. Carlossuarez46 00:24, 22 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep because the title is worthy of an article and the article is brand new and might just improve. IMHO, to be a keeper, the article needs to list only films where significant parts were shot on location in NC, and it needs to tell what the location is, not just list the title of the film. Capmango 04:31, 22 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I disagree that the title is worth keeping. Like others have said above, it's not clear what context it's supposed to be for.  Films set in the state, or films shot in the state?  These are not always one and the same.  Furthermore, whose definition is it going to be to determine what a "significant" part filmed in North Carolina is going to be?  Are flashbacks to a character's history in New Orleans acceptable?  There's no set criteria for an indiscriminate list.  It would be better, per WP:NOTE, to find significant coverage in detail about the topic, such as a book about North Carolina's presence in Hollywood, not a list thrown together by the editors themselves to synthesize an argument. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 17:06, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Good point. Better title would be List of Movies Filmed in North Carolina.  List of Movies Set in North Carolina could be a separate article.  Both of them would be good Wikipedia subjects. Capmango 04:45, 23 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete per above. It's awful. The JPS talk to me  22:04, 24 June 2007 (UTC)


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