Wikipedia:articles For Deletion The Idea (2006 Film)

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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 00:54, 13 October 2015 (UTC) reply

The Idea (2006 film)

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Delete for lack of significant coverage. The article only cites related sources (the firm's own web site and production company) or film directories like IMDB. I was unable to find any review of the film. It does not appear to have received any awards. Difficult searching given the title, but even focusing on the director did not yield a review. I did find it in directory listings, listed in the director's biography, and offered for sale. At the Institute of Contemporary Arts directory I discovered that it had been shown at the 8th BFM International Film Fest. There was a brief one sentence note in May 2006 here about its future production. That's it, basically no coverage. Fails the general notability guidelines, fails WP:NFILM. Note: The article was created in June 2006‎ by editor User:Halaqah, same name as the production company. -- Bejnar ( talk) 22:05, 5 October 2015 (UTC) reply

Delete or redirect to Owen 'Alik Shahadah, if the director's article survives AfD - although that appears to be unlikely. Like Bejnar, I couldn't find anything to show that this film was ultimately notable enough for its own article. It's incredibly difficult for short films, let alone short indie films, to gain enough coverage and this film appears to be no exception. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:32, 6 October 2015 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 19:27, 9 October 2015 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 19:27, 9 October 2015 (UTC) reply

Delete. Shorts are often difficult to source with online sources, unless they won a major film festival prize (the short film circut has dozens of minor festivals). I tried to find sources for The Idea + Owen 'Alik Shahadah but without any luck. Fails NFILM/GNG. -- Sam Sailor ^Talk! 19:53, 9 October 2015 (UTC) reply

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Delete, for even though this film topic is not completely unsourable, [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] none of the available sources give enough analaysis or commentasry to show this film as meeting WP:NF. In this short film lacking separate notability, we do have enough verifiability to consider a sourced mention within articles on Sona Maya Jobarteh or Tunde Jegede or Halaqah Media. Schmidt, ^{Michael Q.} 22:04, 9 October 2015 (UTC) reply
Delete for now as there's nothing to suggest better. SwisterTwister talk 05:41, 10 October 2015 (UTC) reply

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.