Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Philippines in American movies and television


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The result was   delete. Tim Song (talk) 03:36, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

The Philippines in American movies and television

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This is a poorly written unsourced "Philippines in Popular Culture". The entries here are mostly passing mentions of the country in the theme of "Woah look! someone spoke Tagalog in this movie!" and does not satisfy our notability standards. The other entries, if sourced in the future, is better off added to their main article. By the way, I'm disclosing that I'm from the Philippines so I hope this would prevent Reverse discrimination arguments. Lenticel ( talk ) 01:32, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philippines-related deletion discussions.  --  N / A  0  01:33, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete as nothing but trivia. A valid article on this topic may be acceptable, but it would have to be rewritten from scratch as nothing here meets our standards of reliable sourcing, summary style, and original research.   Them  From  Space  01:44, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Everything in here actually meets our standard of notability, because it's limited to those notable works that have a WP article, which is the standard of notability! If for some of them it's doubted that the Philippines have a major role in the plot or setting, the individual item can be discussed on the article talk page.  DGG ( talk ) 08:26, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Ideally, some of the elements of this article should survive somewhere, and I am loath to judge a page by its awkward title. We could stand to lose the entire television section, which is mostly uninteresting "in popular culture" tidbits, and have a good article about the many Hollywood movies that were filmed in the Philippines.  As the article points out, a lot of American movies (particularly war movies) were filmed there, and the context for that can be enriched with sources.  Among the factors that made it attractive as a location were a pro-American government, lower cost of living (including lower wages for Asian extras), and cities, jungles, rice paddies, mountains, etc.  I would hate to see the information lost.  Mandsford 13:31, 4 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete this is basically a stealth 'in popular culture' article, and as written is 100% trivia. I actually think a decent article could probably exist about this topic, if written in prose, well sourced, and without trivia.  However, that would be a completely different article with none of the present material. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  17:55, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:TRIVIA and WP:NOTDIR. This is a non-encyclopedic cross-categorization article.  Similar to Aardvarks in Norwegian newspaper articles or Garlic in South African CD cover art.  Any shred of encyclopedic content can be moved to the main article on the film or TV show.    talk 23:06, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep I think the article stinks, but that doesn't mean it cannot be improved. How the U.S. movie world views the Philippines is interesting, since the Philippines was a U.S. colony for about a half-century before the Japanese invasion in World War II, and after the war its politics and culture were dominated by U.S. influences. This could use some Pinoy power to clean it up. Don't be in such a rush to get rid of it. Regent of the Seatopians (talk) 23:51, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per Starblind. If an article could be made, then let's wait. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) 05:26, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Starblind actually voted to Delete, so how can you "Keep per Starblind"?   talk 19:02, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.