Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Take 21


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The result was soft delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. 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. Star  Mississippi  01:32, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Take 21

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Poorly sourced article about a defunct amateur film festival. As always, every film festival is not automatically entitled to have an article just because its own self-published website formerly offered primary source verification that it existed -- the notability test requires WP:GNG-worthy reliable source coverage about it in media independent of itself to establish its significance. But the only (deadlinked but waybackable) footnote that's ever been added here was an event calendar listing, not analytical coverage about the festival -- and even on a ProQuest search for other sources, I only found the festival's own press releases about itself and a few stray glancing namechecks of its existence in coverage of other things or people, with virtually no substantive coverage that had the festival as its subject to fulfill either GNG or WP:ORGDEPTH. For added bonus, the article was likely written for at least semi-advertorialized purposes, because until I saw it a few minutes ago it was shot through with dozens of WP:ELNO-violating embedded links to profiles for almost every film named in the article body on an offsite directory or streaming platform, which is not how Wikipedia articles about film festivals are supposed to be written. Bearcat (talk) 20:51, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film, Events,  and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 20:51, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * DELETE No mentions in media about the festival that I can find, it's been defunct for over a decade now, this was some attempt at PROMO that never worked for notability. Oaktree b (talk) 02:52, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
 * This described someone involved in the event, but it's not sigcov Oaktree b (talk) 02:53, 29 April 2023 (UTC)


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