Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Father of Racism

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was Delete. Jerry delusional ¤ kangaroo 00:28, 16 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Father of Racism

No notability asserted; virtually nothing about the film is mentioned in the article itself, and absolutely nothing referencing a film appears in the external links and references. Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 02:31, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: If the New York Times describes something as an uproar and if said film is about a notable figure, I'd be very cautious about calling it non-notable. I've asked the original creator to provide additional references to back up a film is actually in production. If this fails, I'd prefer userfication over deletion.- Mgm|^(talk) 09:02, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is that the uproar that the NYT discusses is never mentioned as having to do with a film - it has to do with flyers. Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 09:26, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and Comment. There appears to be no reliable evidence the film actually existed, let along passing Wikipedia:Notability_(films). The NYT article and two other (Spanish language) sources concern flyers and nothing else. Also suggest concurrent deletion of Taina_Mirabal as her only notability is through this film. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Phil153 (talk • contribs) 11:22, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No evidence that the film exists or ever will. Also Delete Taina_Mirabal whose only claim to fame is directing this nonexistant film. Edward321 (talk) 15:05, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - discussion in The New York Times clearly meets the requirements of WP:V. Clean up the links section, though. *** Crotalus *** 20:21, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - There is no discussion in the NYT. The article in question only mention flyers calling him "The Father or Racism". It never mentions a movie called "The Father of Racism". Phil153 (talk) 23:19, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:MOVIE. This article claims four sources, but one (El Diario La Prensa) is a broken link, the one from the New York Times does not mention a movie (just fliers), and the Inwoodite blog post is just a reiteration of the New York Times article. That leaves just the one article in the Spanish-language paper from the Dominican Republic, which I don't think is enough to establish notability for an as-yet-incomplete film that is not even listed in the Internet Movie Database yet. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:47, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. —PC78 (talk) 12:07, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per that it doesn't exist. Ryan4314 (talk) 07:52, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as unsourcable. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 03:46, 15 December 2008 (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.