Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/World of Comedy Film Festival


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  03:37, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

World of Comedy Film Festival

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Fails WP:GNG. Surprisingly for a festival that has run so long, it gets no gnews hits. LibStar (talk) 01:32, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 01:37, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 01:37, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment: a Proquest search returns about a dozen results from 2002-2010 with "World of Comedy Film Festival" in the title, and about 50 related to the name in some way, but I have no access to the associated articles to determine if they're sufficient to make this topic notable (though I suspect they do). Mind  matrix  02:30, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete: I took a look and could find nothing about them in RS. Also, their official website is now just advertising.  So it seems the festival no longer exists, and it's very unlikely it will ever become more notable.  -- Bob drobbs (talk) 03:29, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. I did do the ProQuest run Mindmatrix suggested, but after reviewing the results I'm just not convinced that there's enough meat on the bone here. The largest percentage of them are just event calendar listings, rather than substantive analysis of its significance, and the relatively few hits that are actually genuine bylined journalism still don't really add up to much more than reverifying that it existed — the Rob Salem cite that's already in this article is the strongest hit in ProQuest too, while most of the rest are just short blurbs or glancing namechecks of its existence in reviews of films. The hits dry up after 2010, which means this has been defunct for a decade and that's why nothing Googled — and while I'm not suggesting that "it's defunct" should be a deletion rationale in and of itself, I'm just not really finding evidence that it got enough substantive coverage even when it was active. Bearcat (talk) 19:06, 11 November 2021 (UTC)


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