Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Trial: The Eric Garner Story

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The result was keep‎. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 21:33, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

American Trial: The Eric Garner Story

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Article about a film, not properly referenced as passing WP:NFILM. As always, films are not all "inherently" notable just for existing, and have to meet certain specific criteria to qualify for Wikipedia articles -- noteworthy film awards, a WP:GNG-worthy volume of third-party coverage and analysis (e.g. reviews by professional film critics, etc.) about them, and on and so forth. But the notability claim on offer here is that the film exists, which isn't automatically enough in and of itself, and the referencing is entirely to Q&A interviews in which the filmmaker is talking about her own work in the first person, with absolutely no evidence of independent third-party analysis about the film shown at all.
As it's not a film I'm personally familiar with, I'm perfectly willing to withdraw this if somebody can improve the referencing, but the filmmaker just talking up her own film in her own words doesn't get the film over the notability bar all by itself, if that's all the coverage it has and nobody without a direct personal stake in the film has independently written about or analyzed it in the third person. Bearcat (talk) 19:03, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film and United States of America. Bearcat (talk) 19:03, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Crime, Law, Police, and New York. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:22, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
• Keep Was WP:BEFORE followed in this nom?

  See the following in-depth coverage, which I found in 20 minutes or so:

  • Defore, John (May 18, 2020). "'American Trial: The Eric Garner Story': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
  • Choudhury, Bedatri D. (October 11, 2019). "A Movie Envisions the Trial that Eric Garner Never Had". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  • Newcott, Bill (June 4, 2020). "Review: American Trial: The Eric Garner Story — Movies for the Rest of Us with Bill Newcott". The Saturday Evening Post. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  • Sandoval, Lapacazo (May 21, 2020). "American Trial: The Eric Garner Story". Los Angeles Sentinel. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
  • "AMERICAN TRIAL: THE ERIC GARNER STORY -- An Innovative But Dangerous Hybrid Documentary". disappointment media. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  • "Eric Garner's widow finds healing in fictional documentary six years after his death". The Washington Post. July 17, 2020. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  • Moore, Roger (2020-05-18). "Movie Review — "American Trial: The Eric Garner Story"". Movie Nation. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  • Snipes-Garner, Esaw; Garner, Emerald. "Eric Garner's widow and daughter discuss film 'American Trial'". TODAY.com (Interview). Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  • Ferguson, David (2020-05-21). "'American Trial: The Eric Garner Story' Review". International Policy Digest. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  • Fafner, Hans Henrik (2020-06-12). "Breaking the blue wall of silence". MODERN TIMES REVIEW. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  • Rampell, Ed (2020-05-18). "What if They Were Held Accountable?". Progressive.org. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  • Harris, Shani (2019-11-13). "Eric Garner's Family Pushes for Anti-Chokehold Bill After Screening of American Trial: The Eric Garner Story". The Root. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  • Anderman, Nirit (June 2, 2020). "New Documentary Offers Delayed Justice for Eric Garner". Haaretz. Retrieved March 19, 2024.

  Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 20:13, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

• Keep thanks to Curb Safe Charmer's sources. The Hollywood Reporter and The Saturday Evening Post suffice as nationally recognized reviews, and the coverage in The Los Angeles Sentinel is substantial. Toughpigs (talk) 20:54, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
• Keep The sources provided by Curb Safe Charmer are more than enough to satisfy WP:SIGCOV. A. Randomdude0000 (talk) 00:05, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
• Keep. Plenty of reviews; plenty of coverage. Persingo (talk) 08:31, 20 March 2024 (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.