Project:Requests for deletion/Requests/2020/War of God (1976 movie)
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The outcome of this request for deletion was to File:Symbol keep vote.svg Keep. Consensus exists that the subject meets our notability guideline. Vermont (talk) 14:11, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
War of God (1976 movie)[change]
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TDKR Chicago 101 has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: I find the notability of this page to be in question due to the lack of sources, no English wiki and any reliable references to this film. Searching up online all the sources are mainly wikifandom pages TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 11:30, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
Please discuss this request below, but keep in mind that you shouldn't vote on everything and that there may be options other than "keep" or "delete", such as merging.
Discussion[change]
- I seem to have a choice between War God (1976), ‘關公大戰外星人’ (for example here), and God of War (1976), 戰神, ([1]). This does not address the general issue of notability, and if we consider sites which allow user-contributed content as reliable (probably not). Anyone with notions of Chinese able to clarify what the title should be? --Eptalon (talk) 18:01, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
@Eptalon: 2nd one is correct one (per my skimming), may be wrong. I see some sources in the zhwp/zh-yue wp article, some seems okay. If I have some time I will look into the sources in depth but maybe someone else (perharps Chenzw) will get to it eariler. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 18:27, 12 October 2020 (UTC)- @Eptalon: Pardon the above. I had seen through the sources in zh, apparently War God is the title when the movie was broadcast in Hong Kong and at the same time, in Taiwan the same movie is broadcast as God of War. I will go with Weak Keep here per these sources. Apple Daily is a reliable source and cover this in relatively depth[1] and there is a sort of gold horse award mention (didn't win any but a passing mention). [2].Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 11:08, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
- File:Symbol keep vote.svg Keep per Camouflaged Mirage. --IWI (talk) 11:17, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
- Weak keep - there is some evidence of significant coverage (and even a cult following) for this movie, which can be described as a Taiwanese version of Godzilla, except that the featured character is a Chinese war god. To clarify the contents of the 2nd link which Camouflaged Mirage gave, this movie is not being nominated for the 2020 Golden Horse Awards (and as far as I can tell, was not nominated in 1976, either), but is instead being screened as a remastered version during the same Golden Horse Film Festival.
- I am voting for weak keep because as the Golden Horse Awards press release concedes, this film only recently gained renewed attention from Internet communities (no specific group cited). While WP:NFILM does talk about movies "screened in a festival, at least five years after initial release.", I don't think that in this case it follows that this movie is "historically notable". --Chenzw Talk 12:17, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
- Yes, I should be clearer. Chenzw explained well about the 2nd source which I just state in several words. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 13:31, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
- I am voting for weak keep because as the Golden Horse Awards press release concedes, this film only recently gained renewed attention from Internet communities (no specific group cited). While WP:NFILM does talk about movies "screened in a festival, at least five years after initial release.", I don't think that in this case it follows that this movie is "historically notable". --Chenzw Talk 12:17, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
- Keep The stated reason, "the lack of sources, no English wiki and any reliable references to this film," doesn't support deletion here. There is a pattern here of nominating articles with limited coverage in English when there is clearly coverage from reliable sources in local languages that is easily found if one looks at wikis other than English. (Thank you, eptalon, Camouflaged Mirage, and chenzw.) Most of the notable people, films, books, and events around the world will not have much or any coverage in English. If that is all we look for, we will just be extending the already well-documented biases of Wikipedia. --Gotanda (talk) 00:01, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
- File:Symbol keep vote.svg Keep I added the refs. Meets WP:MOVIE. The article has now 2 independents and reliable sources, with significant coverage. ✍️A.WagnerC (talk) 22:36, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
References
- ↑ "彭浩翔數碼復修Cult片王 千嬅、樂仔聲演關公大戰外星人". Apple Daily 蘋果日報 (in 中文). 2010-04-23.
- ↑ "金馬影展重現亞倫帕克七部傑作 奇片《關公大戰外星人》修復登台". 台北金馬影展 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (in 中文). 1909-02-18. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
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