Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St. Joseph, Days of Civil War

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The result was delete. Secret ^account 03:39, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

St. Joseph, Days of Civil War[edit]

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No evidence this movie gained widespread distribution or won awards. Does not appear to satisfy WP:N, and certainly fails Wikipedia:Notability (films). Nothing at Google news archive or IMDB, for instance. The only ref in the article is the film's own website, which is a deadlink. The creator of the article has the same name as the film's writer/director/producer. The article has been tagged as "unreferenced" for 5 1/2 years. Edison (talk) 03:20, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 13:28, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Missouri-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 13:28, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 13:29, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military and combat-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 13:29, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. No sources, heck, it doesn't even seem to have an IMDb page. The article gives the name of the director as Jim Conlon, and the guy who created the article went by the name of Jimconlon. Probably promotion. Taylor Trescott - ^{my talk} + _{my edits} 17:27, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete but perhaps redirect somewhere. While the film exists and Jim Conlon is a Missouri documentary filmmaker who does have just one IMDB credit acting in another St.Joseph area documentary film.[1], his educational documentary film[2] was aired on television, but it seems destined to be screened only libraries.[3] Coverage of this film seems more limited to it having inspired "local" reenactments.[4][5] Certainly there must be some other place within Wikipedia, perhaps in an article on that area's history, where this might be mentioned? Schmidt, ^{Michael Q.} 05:44, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I'm the AFD nominator. It's not that I don't like the film. It seems to be a relatively low budget documentary, and in a clip of a train wreck on Youtube it shows as well as many historical reenactment films one might see on the History Channel. A nice effort, by a talented director, who knows how to do more with less, and a film which would be quite watchable, but we don't keep articles just because we like the subject. Edison (talk) 14:44, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Response: I would not wish you or anyone presume that a "like" or "not like" had anything to do with my delete... And would wish only that my suggestion toward possible mention elsewhere of a verifiable history re-enactment film that lacks enough notability for a separate article is in consideration of serving the project and its readers... nothing else. Schmidt, ^{Michael Q.} 19:48, 20 August 2013 (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.