Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Perspective (short film)


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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗ plicit  03:43, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Perspective (short film)

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Article about a short film, not reliably sourcing any strong claim to passing WP:NFILM. The only notability claim being attempted here is that it won a couple of awards at small-fry film festivals, which is not an automatic inclusion freebie -- the ability of a film festival award to confer notability on its winners attaches to a narrow tier of prominent international film festivals on the order of Toronto, Berlin, Cannes or Sundance that get widespread media coverage, not just to any random film festival whose awards have to be sourced to the festival's own self-published website about itself because media coverage is nonexistent. But this is sourced exclusively to primary sources that aren't support for notability at all (the websites of the film festivals, the director's own press release announcing his film, Q&A interviews in which he's talking about himself in the first person in limited circulation local interest magazines, and I've also already stripped citations to Instagram and YouTube), with absolutely no evidence of WP:GNG-worthy media coverage about the film shown at all. It's also a likely WP:COI, as it was initially created as a straight copyvio by a virtual WP:SPA whose only other edit history apart from this has consisted entirely of trying to create an article about the filmmaker — see Articles for deletion/Dylan Duff and Articles for deletion/Dylan Duff (2nd nomination) — and trying to add Dylan Duff's name to other articles. Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt it from having to clear WP:GNG on the sourcing. Bearcat (talk) 03:39, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 03:39, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. I wish the director well but this short just doesn't pass notability guidelines at this point in time. Most short films never do, as they typically don't get the type of coverage needed to pass NFILM or GNG - and that is including the ones put out by big studios with major actors. Offhand it looks like the page for Teens 101 needs to be reviewed as well, since it looks to have some of the same issues with sourcing and so on. ReaderofthePack (formerly Tokyogirl79)  (｡◕‿◕｡)  13:06, 19 May 2022 (UTC)


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