Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Still Life (1974 film)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.  

The result was Keep Non-Admin Closure. Tiddly -  Tom  07:13, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Still Life (1974 film)

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Delete contested prod; this article offers no sources that show that this film meets WP:FILM Carlossuarez46 (talk) 20:00, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep - (Btw, your link is for WikiProject Films.) This film has been directed by one of the foremost members of pre-revolution Iranian cinema, it has won significant festival prizes (Silver Bear at Berlin, 1974). The article was created because it is about to be included on the WikiProject's "Core" list, and we wanted all list topics to at least be at Stub level prior to starting editing contests intended to encourage the expansion of Core articles. As a rule, I generally do not AfD films that the most cursory of Google searches shows to be notable, even if the article is miniscule. By all means give it maintenance tags up the wazoo, but requesting deletion of a clearly viable subject is a waste of editing time and reeks of SNOW. Thank you, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 01:31, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong keep as per Girolamo S. --Merovingian (T, C) 01:34, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep per Girolamo and WP:SET; its notability is easily determined, but the article could reflect that a little better. — Erik (talk • contrib) - 02:07, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Content issues aside, clearly a notable film. 23skidoo (talk) 03:32, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Article is essentially a stub about a significant film. —SlamDiego&#8592;T 11:46, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Very weak keep The nomination is clearly in good faith, so a speedy keep would not apply. Furthermore, this article would qualify for speedy deletion if criterion A7 applied to films as there is not even a claim of notability.  From what I can tell, Still Life won a few moderately important awards at a major film festival, but it is now largely forgotten.  A search of Google for "Still Life" and "1974" found very few pages referring to this film.  A search for "Tabiate bijan" found mostly directory listings that confirm the film's existence but not its notability (beyond its awards).  The awards may just be enough to make the film notable, but I see no evidence that this is a core film in anything other than a very narrow category.--FreeKresge (talk) 17:48, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep awards are notability, notability is permanent, and being a "core film"" is way beyond the WP standard.DGG (talk) 05:36, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


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