Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of films never released on DVD


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The result was   delete. — Jake   Wartenberg  03:45, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

List of films never released on DVD

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Indiscriminate and trivial list that is never likely to be completed.  Lugnuts  (talk) 08:15, 18 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. Many films have no doubt never been released on DVD, and for no reason other than a lack of demand or interest. Per nom this is indiscriminate and trivial, and sourcing would be a nightmare. Searches on Amazon to see whether or not a DVD is available doesn't come anywhere close to WP:RS. PC78 (talk) 12:46, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete A list based on a negative qualification is almost always a bad idea. What might work is a category for notable films never released on DVD, so that if a film was important enough for its own article that could be noted. Northwestgnome (talk) 14:46, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete I'm sorry, but this is a bad idea because of the impossibility of making it accurate, and then maintaining it. Considering all of the thousands of titles that came out on VHS during the 1980s and 1990s, and the task of checking to see which of those are not yet on a DVD, it's a task that nobody has the time to take on. Mandsford (talk) 15:27, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete essentially a list criteria based on relative lack of notability, with no hope of it being complete, and no hope of it ever covering the subject objectively, due to it likely focusing on peoples favorite films that werent released, and not the obscure ones that have WP articles. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 15:36, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Unsourced CRUFT. Hell, just the list of films that have been lost (meaning they will never be on DVD, or any other media) is already huge. Add in other films not released for various reasons, the list grows. Eventually DVD will be phased out and the list will stop shrinking (for example, Twlight Zone: The Movie never got a DVD release, only VHS and Blu-ray Disc). Warner Bros. alone has hundreds of movies not released on DVD.  TJ   Spyke   15:40, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions.  —PC78 (talk) 17:35, 18 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete altough it seems a good idea and could be useful, the acutally abilty to lsit ever film not on dvd would be impossibel as you would also have to prove it was not avaiable in any region and not jsut one region as the page is seeming to suggest.-- Andrewcrawford ( talk  -  contrib ) 18:34, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete I think it would be impossible to make a list of every movie that is not on DVD. Warrah (talk) 22:34, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: Fails WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Joe Chill (talk) 22:46, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete An unmaintainable list. Edward321 (talk) 23:23, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete for all above reasons. Listcruft and completely impossible to maintain. And furthermore, some films (particularly older Bollywood movies) may be available on DVD in some countries but not in others. Tris2000 (talk) 11:35, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete because by fundamental fact we cannot source lack of news, ie it's impossible to prove permanently that something never happened. Sources can be provided that a DVD is released and they are then permanent, meaning that we don't need to keep providing updated sources proving this to be true. Even if we were to obtain a reliable source stating "Film A has never been released on DVD", this source could potentially be obsolete immediately and we would have to keep obtaining new sources that state the same information as time goes by. Big Bird (talk • contribs) 16:31, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete for every logical reason already given. LargoLarry (talk) 17:19, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: There are only 9 films on the list, so presumably the list will soon be down to zero.--Milowent (talk) 20:37, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Is Snow Day (film) out on DVD yet? Hint hint. Mandsford (talk) 13:55, 21 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - per TJ Spyke, and also the fact that some DVDs are released only in certain regions, making it more difficult to track, plus there are movies made in many different countries that are never released in any form in English speaking countries, which will make it even harder to track, plus all the non-notable films that get made all the time (a 20 second student documentary, for example)... Rlendog (talk) 17:45, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.