Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boarding House Blues

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The result was keep. SouthernNights (talk) 17:39, 9 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Boarding House Blues

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Fails the requirements of WP:NFILM, lacks significant coverage in multiple independent secondary sources. IMDb is not an acceptable or reliable source. Dan arndt (talk) 23:54, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. Dan arndt (talk) 23:54, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - This film has over 15 incoming links and it features involvement of several notable actors and filmmakers which have their own articles. This is a strong indication of sufficiently significant attention. The fact that the film is included in the Black Film Archive shows that this attention persists over time. --Bensin (talk) 11:22, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This film is listed in at least 16 other databases according to Wikidata here. --Bensin (talk) 19:29, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Star Mississippi 03:15, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Passes WP:SIGCOV and WP:NFILM with multiple academic works addressing the topic "directly and in-detail" in google books. See for just some of the examples: Icons of African American Comedy, page 28, What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing, page 269, Beyond Blaxploitation, page 166, The A to Z of African American Cinema, page 36, Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema, page 37, Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States, pages 33-36, etc. Clearly WP:BEFORE was not followed.4meter4 (talk) 03:43, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Hold on, 4meter4, "directly and in detail"? The first link to "Icons of African American Comedy" is barely a passing mention; the next link is to a brief mention of the film in a section of a book that is about the Berry Brothers, not this film; the next link is to a paragraph about the career of the actress Moms Mabley, not this film; the next link is to an entry in an A-Z guide that has only a routine directory-like entry for the film listing performers and director, nothing more; the next one is an exact repeat of the A-Z guide entry, not a new reference (I am concerned you did not notice this) ; the last is an extremely brief mention in another published piece which is, again, about Mabley, not this film. All of these combine to show evidence that the film existed, and that it had some famous people who participated in its creation, but the apparent dearth of actual discussion of the film itself is a strong argument against its notability, wouldn't you agree?

Also: what part of WP:NFILM does this film meet? I have looked over the criteria there and this film doesn't look like it meets ANY of the points mentioned which would qualify it under this SSG. Can you specify which one(s) you believe it meets? A loose necktie (talk) 08:09, 4 July 2022 (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.