Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Memories of Murder (television movie)

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. Spartaz ^Humbug! 03:59, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Memories of Murder (television movie)[edit]

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Non-notable made-for-TV movie. Fails WP:NFILM and WP:GNG. Article is unreferenced, and no reliable sources which establish notability were found during a quick search. SnottyWong ^verbalize 17:48, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:10, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:10, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as article fails notability criteria for films. Armbrust ^Talk _Contribs 21:16, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete unless sources, such as full reviews, can be found. This has been released to the home video market (you can buy a VHS from Amazon), but some brief searching failed to find any reviews or other indicia of notability not mentioned in the article. Eluchil404 (talk) 02:28, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Update. With some better searching I found one review.[1]. I suspect somebody with better google-fu or access to full 1990's newspaper archives could dig up a couple more. It gets passing mention as the first example of the now ubiquitous Lifetime original movie genre, but very little substantive coverage. Eluchil404 (talk) 02:35, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep per additional sources added to article. Eluchil404 (talk) 05:37, 29 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep No difficulty finding sources. Note that it has an alternate title which may help searches. Colonel Warden (talk) 16:26, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per sources found by the Colonel. Dr. Blofeld 16:30, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Google-fu, hi-yah! There you go, more than enough references. There were more to find and I didn't even try the other name, but I have to get off the internet now, so i'll have to leave it at this. Silver seren^C 21:49, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Snow keep per diligent research and improvements made by editors Colonel Warden, Silver seren, and Dr. Blofeld, in showing just how easy it was to fix. Deletion is never the only option, and it always improves the project to try a bit harder to seek those better options. Kudos to them all. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 02:11, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Based on references found. Use Google news search before you nominate something. Search for the name of the film, and if necessary, add in the name of the director or one of the major stars. That allows you easily find any results out there. Dream Focus 21:51, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No need to get snippy. I did do a search. It's clear from the comments above that other people did a search and didn't find anything initially. It wasn't until someone did a more thorough search (under an alternate title, which was not mentioned in the original version of the AfD'd article) that sources were uncovered. Anyway, if there's anyone you should be getting snippy with, it's the author of the article. The article would never have been nominated if the author had found and added any sources. Fwiw, I withdraw the nomination given the sources that were found and added. SnottyWong ^comment 22:31, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't search under the alternate name. All the sources I found for the article were under the main title. Silver seren^C 22:41, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Likewise here. Just Google news search for "Memories of Murder" and you get plenty of results [2], one of the first ones a detailed review in Entertainment Weekly [3]. Snippiness is in fact in order. Dream Focus 04:58, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep being the first of the Lifetime movies is a notable, if highly dubious, honour. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 22:54, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Especially when it seems to have been a really bad movie. :P Silver seren^C 00:28, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep It may be rubbish but its notable rubbish.Slatersteven (talk) 20:01, 31 August 2010 (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.