Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anastasia 1997

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The result was move to The Secret of Anastasia and redirect to UAV Corp. Regards, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 16:41, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Anastasia (1997 Russian film)[edit]

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mere plot summary and there are no substantive non trivial articles about this zero-budget, possibly pirated film. Rasputin72 (talk) 09:11, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments I'm having a very, very hard time distinguishing between Anastasia (1997 film) and the nominated film when looking for references. A Russian speaker may be needed. Bradjamesbrown (talk) 09:27, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. -- Bradjamesbrown (talk) 09:28, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. -- Bradjamesbrown (talk) 09:28, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Not a pirated film, but a real one. The only clue offered by the article was its distributor. With that lead, I found that the article title above is incorrect and will lead to many false results. The 1997 film distributed by the article's listed UAV Entertainment is actually called The Secret of Anastasia, not simply Anastasia. The correct title leads to a less confusing search. Further, it is not a Russian film, simply an animated film with Russia as its backdrop. There are a couple spots online where comparisons are made between the ~~Disney~~ FOX film and this one both coming out the same year. Producer Bill Schwartz must have had appoplexy when he realized ~~Disney~~ 20th Century Fox was releasing a film at the same time as he and with the same topic... of course, with his releasing two days before ~~Disney's~~ FOX's, he may have done so intentionally so as to capitalize on the ~~Disney~~ FOX publicity. I can only suppose the article author misunderstood the proper way to title an article. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 18:41, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, there were at least three cartoons about Anastasia released in 1997. Here's the other one. Such knock-offs are pretty common, actually. Golden Films has probably released its own version of every story adapted by Disney. (Though for the record, the big screen Anastasia film of 1997 was made by Fox, not Disney.) Zagalejo^^^ 06:43, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Made the correction above. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 05:26, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget 00:48, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Set redirect to the sourcable UAV Entertainment after first moving to the proper title of The Secret of Anastasia so as to preserve the history AND the actual title. While Bill Schwartz and the company are sourcable [1], this article is not. I gave it a decent cleanup and searched far and wide for sourcing, but there is an unfortunate lack. No shame in admitting defeat. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 05:10, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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