Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart


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The result was keep. Sourcing has been identified Star   Mississippi  03:16, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart

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Deprodded because "reviews usually available", but I was unable to find any digging through newspapers.com or proquest. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 18:08, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film, Television, Africa,  and United Kingdom. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 18:08, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment I did find one review at CineMagazine . Not enough on its own, but perhaps a start? Donald D23   talk to me  19:16, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment. I deprodded this because it aired on BBC2, the highest-status UK channel for this sort of educational programming, which usually receives reviews for all its new content. Espresso Addict (talk) 00:00, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Did you find any such reviews, though? Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 00:38, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Quite a few short reviews in a Proquest search, yes. (49 hits for "The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart", though some are duplicates and others Daily Mail). Espresso Addict (talk) 02:08, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.  The article provides 582 words of coverage about the subject. The article notes from Google Translate: "More than nice are the extra pieces at the end of each episode, which show what a challenge it is to collect high-quality images of (often timid) wild animals. The shots behind the scenes make it clear that the life of a cameraman in the untouched wilderness is not always a bed of roses."  The article provides 229 words of coverage about the subject. The article notes: "At the conclusion of The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart - take a look behind the scenes. Cameraman Gavin Newman has spent several years developing a remote underwater camera which he calls ‘Nemo'. He is about to send it on its maiden voyage on a descent into the cracks in the floor of the Southern Red Sea where no human eyes have seen before."  The article provides 128 words of coverage about the subject. The article notes: "It is home to some extraordinary wildlife and striking geological features, all of which is vividly captured in this first-rate program. With its sumptuous photography, unobtrusive narration and avoidance of rounding up the usual wildlife suspects, it's a textbook example of what nature shows should be."  The article provides 130 words of coverage about the subject. The article notes: "The rarest footage of all is of the Kipunji monkey, never before filmed, which is on the brink of extinction. There is precious little narrative in the film, but with so much beauty and peace that it doesn’t much matter."  The article provides 82 words of coverage about the subject. The article notes: "Accordingly, this BBC Worldwide documentary features some amazing landscapes, even if it does not quite reach the heights of some of the spectacular nature documentaries of recent years."  The article provides 123 words of coverage about the subject. The article notes: "Otherwise it is the usual impressive footage – cheetahs bringing down Thomson's gazelles, elephants knocking down trees, giraffes devouring thorny acacia trees and a mother lion digging up warthog piglets to feed to her cubs. The commentary is by Ghanaian-born Hugh Quarshie, whose mellifluous tones are the equal of Attenborough's."</li> <li> The book provides 86 words of coverage about the subject. The book notes: "This effort is a natural outgrowth of the fact that the valley is topographically distinct, something well shown in the 2010 BBC movie The Great Right: Africa's Wild Heart, a film narrated by Hugh Quarshie in three episodes built around the themes of fire, water, and grass. The film describes the highest mountains and deepest lakes of Africa, all found in the valley, along with the ash layers from active volcanoes that encourage the grasslands and provide the forage needed by the massive herds of game."</li> <li> The article provides 74 words of coverage about the subject. The article notes: "This documentary about the Great Rift Valley in East Africa proves there is no need to anthropomorphise the wildlife. Instead of cheesy manufactured storylines, it relies on intriguing facts, breathtaking footage and poetic narration from the velvet-voiced Hugh Quarshie."</li> <li> The article provides 95 words of coverage about the subject. The article notes: "Australia's outdoors always does well when it comes to its good looks - we've always known that. But wait until you see what Africa is bringing to the table."</li> <li> The review notes: "Yet another spectacular natural history series from the BBC, with the emphasis here as much on the landscapse of Africa's Great Rift Valley as the wildlife that inhabits it."</li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 07:16, 16 May 2022 (UTC) </li></ul>
 * Keep in view of the significant coverage identified above that includes reliable sources such as broadsheet newspapers, magazines and books so that WP:GNG is passed and deletion is unnecessary in my view, Atlantic306 (talk) 09:46, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep according to the coverage in reliable sources. Huggums537 (talk) 02:48, 20 May 2022 (UTC)


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