Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Sheep Thief


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The result was no consensus. (WP:NPASR). North America1000 23:51, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

The Sheep Thief

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Page was created by SPA/COI who has only ever made promotional edits on film director's page and associated subjects. There are no references. There's almost no content to it. Fails notability - won some very low level awards, with the best being 2nd place in a particular Cannes award - for which only 4 out of 54 (including this) of the top 3 films have articles (2 of the other 3 have significant other reasons for notability). Rayman60 (talk) 14:58, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Expanded and citations added.  Schmidt,  Michael Q. 22:33, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 05:17, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions.  Human 3015   It will rain    08:23, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions.  Human 3015   It will rain    08:23, 17 January 2016 (UTC)


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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Redirect (& possible merge of whatever is sourcable) to filmmaker Asif Kapadia (and yes, his article itself needs work). Though there are exceptions, short student films, even grad films, rarely achieve notability.  Schmidt,  Michael Q. 14:29, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 04:09, 24 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Upped to weak keep as I could not let this rest. Looking, I was surprised (as many short films never receive such mention) to find the filmmaker and his grad film written of in enough sources so I was able to take the article from this to THIS. That his grad film received a number of awards and television screenings causes me to believe it is a lot more notable than I originally assumed, as when even a young man's grad film receives a  Grand Jury prize at Festival de Cannes, it gets attention. More to do... more to do.  Schmidt,  Michael Q. 22:15, 30 January 2016 (UTC)


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