Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of top Telugu-language films


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The result was   delete. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  04:25, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

List of top Telugu-language films

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Since the phrase "critically acclaimed" is so incredibly vague and often used as a means of promotion, I believe this article fails the WP:NPOV policy even if it was referenced. Also, we already have the list Telugu films of 2008, and similar ones for every year since 2000 and every decade before that. Since all the listed films are in that list too and since they've got articles, it's a duplicate too. Mgm|(talk) 14:06, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Commment Looks like it's trying to mirror these articles.  Lugnuts  (talk) 16:59, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep This strikes me as a legitimate topic, and the author has a record of contributions to Bollywood topics, so I think that this will develop into a good article. I would point out to the previous posts that a list of Telugu-language films is most certainly not a mirror of a list of Tamil-language films.  Telugu and Tamil, like English and German, are separate languages even though there are some commonalities.  Neither do I believe that the fact that we have a list of Telugu films in 2008 means that a person cannot make a list of award-winning or highest-grossing films in the Telugu language; certainly, we wouldn't apply that rationale to our lists of Hollywood films.  Finally, let's be clear that "Bollywood" is the term for films made in India, but there is no such language as "Indian", and the movies are made in a variety of languages for a variety of people.  Though most people haven't heard of it, the Telugu language is understood by 75,000,000 people.  Mandsford (talk) 17:26, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I was asked to address the other part of the nomination, which is whether the author's use of the phrase "critically acclaimed" is a violation of NPOV. If it is, it is a semantics problem easily fixed by editing.  My preference would be "award winning" or "nominated for award", which reflects critical acclaim without interjecting one's personal opinion.  Generally, there are two different measures of success for a movie-- it is popular with the general public, which is measured monetarily; or it is popular with the critics, which is measured by an award process.  Ultimately, I think that what is sauce for the Hollywood goose is sauce for the Bollywood gander.  Mandsford (talk) 14:13, 9 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep on the basis of Mandford's argument. I don't usually like to just say "per", but there's nothing more that needs to be said. DGG (talk) 18:44, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. If this were a "list of highest grossing Telugu films" or even a "list of award-winning Telegu films" then I wouldn't have a problem with it, but it's not. What, pray tell, is supposed to be the definition of a "top film"? Even if it were given an appropriate rename, this is just a short, unreferenced list of "critically acclaimed" films, where just about any film could claim to be critically acclaimed by someone or other. No objections to a proper list with defining inclusion criteria, but this is not it. PC78 (talk) 00:36, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions.   —PC78 (talk) 00:37, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per PC78. While a similar list with defined inclusion criteria could exist, this one does not follow the applicable guidlines.  Eluchil404 (talk) 00:48, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Should be very easy to find Telugu-language scholarship to support this list. --Mr Accountable (talk) 06:30, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - amorphous, unencyclopedic, unverifiable, and POV. Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 14:37, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - no criteria to define "top": quality? gross? googlehits? mentions in the press? critical acclaim? -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  23:47, 13 February 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.