Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Self-referencing movie


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The result was   delete. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:13, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Self-referencing movie

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This one appears to be veering too much into WP:DICDEF territory, compounded by not meeting WP:RS standards. The list itself seems extremely incomplete, too. Pastor Theo (talk) 02:05, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not only is it like a definition, it almost seems to be a made up term. It's a movie that has a character say the title. Aren't 2/3s of movies named after a quote from it anyway? Yeah, in Forrest Gump someone says the title character's name. This is nothing unique whatsoever. Reywas92 Talk  02:23, 1 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. Fails the "is this interesting?" test. This is little more than a Family Guy joke. Hairhorn (talk) 02:28, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions.  -- TexasAndroid (talk) 03:23, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete dicdef at best, trivial, undefinable and pretty much unending at worse. -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 03:40, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete But sir, what if he has total recall? JuJube (talk) 03:54, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, I don't see much point in this list. Saying the film's name in the film doesn't sound like a thing that would make a film more notable. J I P  | Talk 04:16, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete This seems like a joke. Any movie titled by the name of the main character is going to fit this definition, as well as lots of others with no intention by the film makers. I am sure there have been a few movies that admit they are movies, for instance Spaceballs. These should be the subject of this article, and were what I expected to see in it.Northwestgnome (talk) 14:29, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete The definition posed is that a movie is "self-referencing" if "one of the characters in the movie says the title of the movie". In other words, the script happens to include a word or phrase that can also be found in the title, which always happens except in those instances where it does not happen.   Where this really gets silly is when a character in the film is named Barbarella, Zoolander, Goldfinger, etc.  If the example cited (with video link) was really self-referencing, Donald Moffat would say "These drug cartels represent a clear and present danger", and then he would look at the camera and wink.  While this would make a good game to play on a car trip, it's not the basis for an article.   Mandsford (talk) 14:37, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Triviacruft. List includes films that cannot help mentioning their title because they are about items/people with the same name. Doc StrangeMailbox Logbook 14:51, 1 June 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.