Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The King's Stamp

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Anarchyte (work | talk) 11:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The King's Stamp[edit]

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First reference is to a listing in a film guide; second reference is to a Wordpress blog. Google search turns up a number of promotional results and offers to purchase the sound track, but no significant reliable independent coverage. Nominating or deletion with no prejudice against recreation once appropriate sources can be identified. KDS4444 (talk) 13:36, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A perforated argument

There are SCORES of references to the 1935 stamps on the internet. I have added some more and could add another half dozen - but that would start to look a bit silly. Picknick99 (talk) 14:00, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Let's keep in mind: this is not an article about the stamp, this is an article about a film which is named after the stamp. You could add a thousand reliable references about the stamp, and that would not make the film notable. KDS4444 (talk) 06:03, 13 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep the BFI reference seems rs, have added this review here seems enough for a close pass of WP:GNG Atlantic306 (talk) 02:48, 13 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:15, 19 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:40, 19 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:40, 19 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Described by the BFI as "the GPO’s most widely-seen production, indeed one of the most widely-seen films ever in the UK," the film is of historical importance. What's more, a Gbooks search for the film yields coverage like this, this, this -- granted none of them are massive Ghits but I do believe the film is historically notable, even if it doesn't exactly meet WP:NFO. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:53, 23 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: as one of the pioneering documentary films made by the GPO film unit whose films were added to Unesco's memory of the world register from the British Film Institute must make this notable enough to be kept. Besides which it not just tells the story of the stamp in question but provides a history of the democratisation of the British postal service from the mid-19th century major revolutionary postal reforms to the rise in stamp collecting as well as the George V's own interest in stamps, being one of the world's most famous stamp collectors, who amasses the Royal Philatelic Collection. It features the first film score by Benjamin Britten. It certainly has enough source to verify its notability. ww2censor (talk) 10:30, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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