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The result was delete. postdlf ( talk) 15:36, 23 October 2014 (UTC) reply

An Acrid Yarn

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Non-notable film with no secondary sources, an IMDb profile and an official facebook page do not indicate a topic's notability BOVINEBOY 2008 15:18, 14 October 2014 (UTC) reply

• Delete: Sadly no evidence of meeting WP:NFILM. No significant coverages to WP:RS that validate the subject notability. WP:NYF Perhaps WP:TOOSOON. Wikicology ( talk) 17:06, 14 October 2014 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 22:01, 14 October 2014 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 22:01, 14 October 2014 (UTC) reply

• Delete. All I found was one passing mention in a book and an article about the filming- not enough to really show that this film would pass notability guidelines. Unless other sources can be found, this just seems to be a fairly non-notable film. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:10, 20 October 2014 (UTC) reply
• Keep. Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia. Most of the articles I created and that were originally submitted for deletion have since flourished to lengthy, fully established articles. The fact that some 'editors' keep wanting to delete article is the main reason why I don't spend more time actually editing articles and contributing to them: I simply do not want to waste my time in developing an article than another 'editor' will simply delete in a few key strokes. Give this article a chance. AugustinMa ( talk) 13:44, 20 October 2014 (UTC) reply

• It's not a paper encyclopedia, but we still require coverage in reliable sources in the here and now. Saying that other articles were nominated for deletion and survived doesn't automatically mean that this film does pass notability guidelines. (See WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS.) It may be that the pages weren't deleted because someone wanted to give you more time to work on them or it could be that the films pass notability guidelines in ways that this film does not. To be honest, I think that most of the reason the bulk of the other pages you've created haven't been deleted is because they haven't really been noticed yet, because nobody followed up with a full AfD, or because someone else stepped in to help show notability. I don't mean that to sound harsh, but I want to stress that you must establish notability by way of coverage in independent and reliable sources. There's really no other way to do this and we cannot accept on your say-so that notability exists and that it will be eventually provided if we only left it standing. The long and short of it is that if there are sources that show notability, you need to provide them and make them visible on the page before this AfD concludes. Don't assume that someone else will come in and rescue the article. Sometimes this happens, but in many instances it doesn't happen, mostly because the editors can't find anything but also sometimes because some editors only do a fairly casual search for sourcing. I want to repeat that: You should not rely on other editors to provide sourcing for articles and establish notability. I can't stress that enough because it's a lesson I learned the hard way because I had articles I created or heavily edited come up for deletion in various formats and I was eventually told that the impetus was on me to provide the sourcing because my hands were the first or most frequent ones to touch the article. I don't want to discourage you from editing- that's not the point of this- but I do want to make sure that you understand that the reasons so many articles were nominated for deletion was because you did not add sourcing and establish notability to begin with and instead left it for others to do. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:03, 23 October 2014 (UTC) reply

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