Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spirit Diaries

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 06:16, 11 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Spirit Diaries

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Article about a YouTube documentary series, not properly sourced as passing WP:NMEDIA or WP:NWEB. The attempted notability claim here is that it won an award at a minor film festival, which is sourced to the festival's own self-published content about itself rather than any evidence of reliable source coverage about it -- but the extent to which any award constitutes an article-clinching notability claim is determined entirely by the extent to which that award gets media coverage to establish that it's seen as a notable award in the first place.
And aside from that film festival, the only other source used here at all is IMDb, which is not a WP:GNG-building source either, and there's not a single reliable or GNG-worthy source being shown at all
Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt this from having to have real coverage about it in real media. Bearcat (talk) 01:05, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Websites and United States of America. Bearcat (talk) 01:05, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Löschen - only sources are unreliable IMDB and 'Prison City Film Festival' which doesn't even have a Wikipedia article. Probably a UPE sock anyways, may warrant recreation down the road given its recency. Sungodtemple (talk • contribs) 02:16, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
There are a lot of smaller film festivals like that which aren't really big enough for there own article on Wikipedia, but some short films will start at those small festivals and snowball up to larger ones. It's not common and shouldn't be used as a basis for WP:NMEDIA but it is something to just keep in mind when evaluating short films. In my previous career I worked on a lot of short films so all of this is just my opinion and antidotal. It is absolutely not policy. Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 19:08, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Sungodtemple. I'm certain that this is a paid editor/sock as they made 10 minor edits so that they could publish directly to mainspace. JML1148 (talk | contribs) 02:54, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Paranormal-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 08:03, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Imdb isn't a valid source, rest is simply coverage in non-RS. I can't find mention of them. Oaktree b (talk) 16:41, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Soft Delete Does not pass WP:NMEDIA, if it had been to more festivals and/or won larger awards at festival I could see it being notable or at least really really close. Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 19:04, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. The person who loves reading (talk) 21:46, 10 June 2023 (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.