Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Night of the Strangler

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The result was keep. Spartaz ^Humbug! 15:41, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Night of the Strangler[edit]

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Doesn't appear to pass WP:GNG with no coverage. Also does not pass WP:NFILMS. KingAndGod 18:49, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. samee converse 21:01, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The film was widely distributed in its time under various titles and was recently broadcast on Turner Classic Movies as part of a themed night of crime films, as noted by host Ben Mankiewicz. It is documented at IMDB.com and the TCM database and is listed at the Rotten Tomatoes film review site and is commercially available at Amazon.com (with six customer reviews). Numerous clips from the film are posted to YouTube. It features a noted performer, Micky Dolenz, shortly after the height of his career. There is plentiful discussion of the film on the Internet at film blogs (and many images, particularly of its contemporary promotion) and I was surprised to find no page here as yet after seeing it broadcast as most similar exploitation films I've looked up seem to have entries.

TCM's article can be seen here:

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1389818%7C0/TCM-Underground-in-April.html

Joe Suggs (talk) 14:08, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Coverage is light in internet-accessible sources, but sources do exist (as is generally the case for films that get a legitimate theatrical release). I don't typically work much with films beyond the silent era, ~~but I'll see if I can't at least tidy this one up a little.~~ Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 13:36, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That was easier than I expected. The article has been cleaned up and sourced. Besides being a vehicle for Dolenz, it was the film debut for two other notable actors, and has received at least brief mention in an academic film history work as part of the early 1970s trend towards blaxploitation films. It is virtually certain that other contemporary sources exist, especially period reviews, although I'm less skilled at finding 1970s periodical sources than 1920s ones (and the litany of titles here makes searching noisome). In any case, the most widely-distributed prints now are all under the title The Night of the Strangler, and so this article should be moved to that title, but I'll wait to do so until after the AFD closes (assuming this closes Keep). Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 15:25, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep had given up on this as couldn't find much but the above editor has found a number of reliable sources such as reliable book coverage and they have used them to make a big expansion and improvement of the article raising it from a stub to at least start class if not C class and they have demonstrated that it passes WP:GNG Atlantic306 (talk) 14:20, 18 April 2018 (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.