Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electric Purgatory

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 Delete. Cbrown1023 21:38, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Electric Purgatory[edit]

Non-notable documentary. A Google search for "'Electric Purgatory' -wikipedia" yields 570 hits. The top hits are the movie's website, a MySpace, and various directory entries. Consequentially 03:40, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. MER-C 06:11, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Some of the subjects of the film are notable ie. Fishbone, Vernon Reid. I found a Variety review, a Berklee school of music press release advertising a talk with the filmmaker, a few film festivals [1] [2] another review... I think this is sufficient notability for a recently produced independent documentary -- reviews & film festivals seem the basic qualifications, as well as the notability of the film's subject Dina 16:55, 7 December 2006 (UTC) I'm throwing any other feasible sources I find onto the article's talk page. Dina 17:03, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Um, just because it has notable subjects doesn't mean anything. I could make a documentary about the most notable people and it still wouldn't warrant an article or assess notability (the notability is on the subject of the article, not the subject of the article's subject). Cbrown1023 22:53, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, my argument wasn't "just" that it had notable subjects, it also offered reviews & film festivals. What criteria is being used here to decide the notability of this film? Documentaries, with a few notable exceptions, are rarely blockblusters, yet obviously many rise above "you tube" status. What criteria would a notable independent documentary fulfill that this one fails to? I'm open to to being convinced, but frankly, the nomination somewhat mistates the google hits (there's a Variety review and the "directories" are the schedules of film festivals that this film has been in) and there are no other comments of substance. Dina 03:00, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per above. Cbrown1023 22:53, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, ---J.S ^(T/C) 04:00, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - a documentary is simply not going to garner the same sort of press coverage that a feature movie will. Depsite this, it is featured in a review by two independent sources (Variety, and Houston Press), and is also given more than a passing mention in the Boston Globe article about the Roxbury Film Festival. -- Whpq 22:21, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom FirefoxMan 16:50, 15 December 2006 (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.