Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Superstar (2009 film)


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The result was keep. Geschichte (talk) 09:03, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Superstar (2009 film)

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Fails WP:NFILM and lack of WP:RS — Amkgp 💬  15:40, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. — Amkgp 💬  15:40, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Iran-related deletion discussions. — Amkgp  💬  15:40, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete. Not a notable film, failing WP:NFILM. Stefka Bulgaria (talk) 16:00, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete does not meet our notability guidelines for films.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:31, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete The title of this movie and one of the characters' names reminded me of Hannah Montana. Cyrus = Superstar. :) But anyways, this is not a notable film, the bland title makes it difficult to search, there may be coverage in Arabic but I can't read Arabic. Presented sources do not establish notability. And the "film Irani" part is just omg. It should be the following: "Superstar is an Irani film." Little nitpick, I know, but an encyclopedia shouldn't contain mistakes like this one. Update: corrected that. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 12:36, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep as it is definitely a notable film with reviews by The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Reader, La Weekly as linked at Rotten Tomatoes here as well as a review in Variety. Clearly passes WP:NFILM criteria 2 as well as WP:GNG imv Atlantic306 (talk) 01:26, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 00:40, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per Atlantic306, reviews in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Reader, and L.A. Weekly are clearly enough to demonstrate notability. Devonian Wombat (talk) 01:43, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * But none of them provided the links to the article to improve. — Amkgp 💬  11:42, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Here, here and here. The Chicago Reader one is dubious as to whether or not its SIGCOV, but it doesn't matter, it passes WP:GNG anyway. Devonian Wombat (talk) 19:43, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – bradv  🍁  07:06, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
 *  Weak Keep I've added the LA Times, Chicago Reader, and LA Weekly reviews to the article and cleaned it up a smidgen but from reading them, it does seem like it only got reviewed by virtue of having a famous Writer/Director. The current sources in Farsi (not Arabic, ) appear to be from a user generated source like an IMDB-analogue, which isn't great - ideally there'd be some coverage from an Iranian newspaper or something. I'd also note from fa.wiki that this film has won a handful of awards. --Paul &#10092;talk&#10093; 11:12, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - Per added sources by editor Paul Carpenter. BabbaQ (talk) 00:44, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep for the reasons of those who want this article kept, but could still use improving by expanding it with more information. Davidgoodheart (talk) 03:58, 17 December 2020 (UTC)


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