Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prankstar

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The result was merge‎ to Tom Green. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:46, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Prankstar

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Article about a film that was never completed or released, not properly referenced as passing WP:NFILM criteria. As always, films that have never been released are normally not notable enough for Wikipedia articles at all -- and while it's possible that there could be occasional exceptions for unreleased films that have generated an unusual volume and depth of reliable source coverage and analysis, that's not in evidence here at all: three of the four footnotes are primary sources (Tom Green's own self-published website and the self-published website of the studio that tried to make it) which aren't support for notability at all, and the only one that comes from a media outlet is a Q&A interview in which its existence gets briefly namechecked but which isn't about the film in any non-trivial sense, which isn't enough "coverage" to get the film over WP:GNG all by itself.
This just doesn't have enough notability-building coverage in proper reliable sources to earn an exemption from having to have been completed and released. Bearcat (talk) 18:23, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film and United States of America. Bearcat (talk) 18:23, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge "Little is known about the film". It can be a one-liner in the main Tom Greene article then, using the AV Club source. I don't see anything about this unreleased film. Oaktree b (talk) 19:45, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting. If you are proposing a Merge, please specify the target article. Thank you.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:04, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Oaktree did specify a target article for a merge: Tom Green. I certainly have no objection to that. Bearcat (talk) 15:19, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Tom Green - The film is already briefly mentioned in the main Tom Green article, using the above mentioned AV Club source. All that really needs to be added there at this point is a sentence stating that it was never released, which would not really require a merge to do. Rorshacma (talk) 16:32, 2 July 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.