Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Video Yesteryear

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. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:21, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Video Yesteryear[edit]

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Contested proposed deletion. PROD reasoning was the usual, lack of reliable sources. A ref from Billboard magazine was added after the prod was removed. While that is a reliable source, the coverage is a trivial directory-type entry and does little to nothing to establish notability. Beeblebrox (talk) 05:28, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep notable enough. They seem to be no longer with us but they did restore tons of silents over the years (their IMDB profile says they distributed nearly 200 films. They were also one of the biggest players in the old-time radio cassette market in the 80s. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 20:55, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, is there anything besides IMDB, (which we cannot use as WP:RS) that can be found to establish notability and verify the article content? In the vast scheme of things, distributing 200 old films that are in the public domain does not actually strike me as a notable accomplishment. Anyone who wants to can distribute these old movies, of which there are thousands. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:59, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This New York Times article confirms the basics, I'm sure there's more as the bulk of their activity predates the web. Keep in mind they were actually restoring these movies using a patented process and adding their own original music, in a pre-digital era when it was very time-consuming and expensive to do so. It's not comparable to downloading some AVIs off archive.org and selling CDRs of them at the flea market or whatever. Chaplin movies may have been pretty niche during the video boom of the 80s but Video Yesteryear made the most of that niche for all it was worth. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 21:30, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - a better Billboard reference is this one which is more substantial coverage. Newspapers have also reviewed their offerings: [1], [2], [3]. -- Whpq (talk) 16:13, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:42, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:42, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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