Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Split Decision (unreleased 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  14:50, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Split Decision (unreleased film)

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Article about an apparently unreleased film, not properly referenced as notable enough to exempt it from the primary film notability criteria at WP:NFO. As always, we do not want to indiscriminately maintain an article about every film that enters the production pipeline without regard to whether it ever comes out the other end as a finished and screened and distributed film or not -- with some exceptions for very high profile projects, our notability criteria for films generally require a film to have actually been released to the general public. This, however, is a ten-year-old project whose article was clearly created to help promote the film's efforts to find a distributor -- it was created by a virtual WP:SPA whose edit history concentrated almost entirely on this film, the filmmaker and the subject, and it somehow manages to contain a detailed synopsis of the film's content despite the lack of verifiable evidence that anybody without a direct personal conflict of interest ever saw enough of it to write a synopsis. For sourcing, we have one piece written by the filmmaker (thus not support for notability), one Q&A interview in which the filmmaker is discussing his interest in boxing in the first person (thus not support for notability), and one very short blurb about his efforts to complete it (thus not substantive enough to carry this film over NFO or WP:GNG all by itself if it's the only non-primary source the film has.) I'm willing to withdraw this in the unlikely event that somebody can actually find evidence that it actually has been released which Wikipedians have somehow missed for an entire decade, but neither the substance nor the depth of sourcing on offer here suggest a reason why this film should be deemed permanently notable in the absence of any evidence that it's ever been released. Bearcat (talk) 14:23, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film, Cuba,  and United States of America. Bearcat (talk) 14:23, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete The film is pretty much dead, I can't find anything on it. Should it get released, the article can be recreated. Oaktree b (talk) 15:10, 3 July 2022 (UTC)


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