Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Synapse Films

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 keep (tagged for cleanup). This is a non-admin close. Black Falcon ^(Talk) 05:20, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Synapse Films

Notability not asserted. Not enough reliable Google hits to judge notability. Written as an advertisement. soum (0_o) 04:42, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep many films that appear to be popular in a movie subculture. In a current googlenews search I get 5 hits about its success and movies[1][2] plus decent amount of ghits. Notable, and not spam. Arbustoo 05:18, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete unless better sourced IMDB and fansites are not a source for notability, and a regional paper isn't enough. I think there might possibly be reviews, but you've got to find them. DGG 03:42, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep per Arbustoo. Clearly they have produced notable works. Tag as an {{ad}} or fix. John Vandenberg 09:34, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, WjBscribe 00:09, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete as it doesn't seem very notable, but may be better if better sourced and rewritten. — Wenli 01:12, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - The Fangoria source (number 2) above plus this second Fangoria source are sufficient to convince me that the company has sufficient notability. It does need to be re-written to be less adverspammy and must be completely sourced. Otto4711 01:29, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep --Remi 01:52, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: AfD is not a vote. Please qualify your statement with "why." --Kinu ^t/_c 01:59, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Looks like an advert, but definitely can be improved. Sr13 (T|C) ^ER 03:44, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The article is a bit spammy and needs to be properly referenced, but this is a well-known DVD label, which has a good amount of non-trivial coverage.[3] [4] In addition, a Google search for synapse dvd finds hundreds of reviews for the company's products (DVD's). DVDVerdict.com alone seems to have reviewed 33 of them.[5] Prolog 07:32, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and Rewrite Needs serious rewriting but notabality is certainly established. --St.daniel ^talk 11:02, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, and a prediction. Based on spammy tone and redlinks, there will soon appear articles on each of the principals of this company, and each movie's article will soon contain a link to this company. As far as the hundreds of reviews mentioned above, they are reviews of the movies, which are not a creation of the company unless Synapse has changed them somehow, they are just selling them. --killing sparrows^(chirp!) 11:09, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment. DVD reviews almost always contain either a review or a summary of the film too, but these still are DVD reviews. Anyway, even without these, notability has been established per WP:CORP. Prolog 13:37, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment. Although not mentioned in the article, Synapse do produce documentaries on underground movies along with the likes of Anchor Bay and Blue Underground. As for the redlinks, I agree that the owners of the of the company are not notable enough to have articles on themselves and therefore sould be de-linked, however Document Of The Dead is a reasonable well known documentary on the making of Dawn Of The Dead. ~ SEEnoEVIL punch the keys 14:39, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Passes WP:CORP, properly sourced. I don't believe there's anything in deletion policy suggesting that speculation over an article's potential for unencyclopedic forks represents valid grounds to delete it. RGTraynor 14:54, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep- meets WP:CORP but could do with some tidying up. Retiono Virginian 16:34, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Seems to meet WP:CORP IMHO. mako (talk•contribs) 17:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and rewrite. Although relatively unknown in mainstream movie fan circles, Synapse are popular with the fans of the cult movie circuit. ~ SEEnoEVIL punch the keys 14:31, 1 May 2007 (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.