Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Home Team (1998 film)

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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn with no remaining delete proposals. (non-admin closure) Atlantic306 (talk) 02:06, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Home Team (1998 film)[edit]

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Fails WP:NFO, WP:NFSOURCES and WP:SIGCOV. Found only one review (needs two in order to be eligible) on Rotten Tomatoes. Nothing else suitable enough was found to pass WP:NEXIST in a WP:BEFORE. The Film Creator (talk) 16:04, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 17:31, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I can only conclude that as in the case of another article I created, imdb didn't have enough information and I saw Wikipedia as a place I could provide the information to anyone who wanted it. The other film that was deleted had more information on imdb than on Wikipedia at the time of the deletion.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:58, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: I added some more sources. The late 90s is a bit of gap in sourcing in 2022 due to so many newspaper archives being paywalled now, but I found a few things in a quick check to get started. The great Steve Guttenberg has carried many a poor movie.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 16:51, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I am now convinced this film, despite apparently being terrible and a flop, is notable. I've added enough so show that. But here's something funny too. Vchimpanzee, when you created this article, it looks like you happened to use the film article you'd previously edited earlier the same day as a template, Under Suspicion (2000 film). (This edit: [1] was the prior edit). I typically do the same thing. You left in Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman (and other producers of that film) as producers on the Home Team article from the old article, and no one ever caught this. (I've made the same error before, I am sure.) As I'm reading up on this movie today, I'm like "how in the world did Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman fund this pile of crap? Personal favor to Steve Guttenberg?" But then I couldn't find any real source for such famous backers. I don't think this has really been noticed, but in a December 2021 article from a radio station (KEEL in Louisiana USA), they reference Freeman and Hackman as the producers of the 1998 Home Team (which is about soccer) in discussing a 2022 film also named "Home Team" (which is about football). Though clearly unrelated, this article claims the new Home Team is a "soft-reboot and semi-remake" of the 1998 version. I'm dying laughing, but I've also corrected the issue.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 19:12, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I usually catch these problems.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:20, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

We will never be perfect around here, you do excellent work from what i see!--Milowent • ^hasspoken 19:23, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I withdraw this nomination per WP:NEXIST and per User:Milowent’s article improvements. The Film Creator (talk) 15:23, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciate that! I do understand why you nominated it, it did need some work.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 17:23, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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