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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 21:16, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of Smartphone Films[edit]

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List of just two films, on a fairly trivial characteristic of their cinematography. Smartphone cameras are just digital cameras, resulting in films no different than any other film shot on a digital camera -- so it's certainly an interesting thing to mention in the film's article, but it's not a reason to compile a list of them. Especially a list that pretends that smartphone cinematography is unique to India, when it's very much not. Bearcat (talk) 01:15, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom's reasoning as well as the fact that it fails WP:GNG. MarnetteD|Talk 01:39, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:49, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:49, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep smartphone cinematography is not only unique to India, even in Europe and many countries also. Out of India, many filmmakers considering, smartphone cinematography is very unique to them. I have just created an article about Smartphone Films and please note the article. There we can see, who were more interested with smartphone movies. In this present time, the page 'List of Smartphone Films' maybe very short. but, in feature surly it will be expanded. So, if Wikipedia can exist the page please keep it here.Undaporiyal (talk) 04:16, 10 August 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Undaporiyal (talk • contribs) 02:02, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What you haven't shown is sources which demonstrate that "smartphone films" are a thing people are analyzing and thinking about and watching and discussing as a group. We don't care about, or categorize, or list films by, what type of camera was used to make them, because that's not a WP:DEFINING characteristic of the films. Bearcat (talk) 02:16, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to say that I am no more able to argue or discuss about Wikipedia policies, because of my illiteracy. But, I want to mention here that this page List of Smartphone Films only point out about the List of such these specified films. Here no more discussion. about smartphone films.Undaporiyal (talk) 02:52, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I remember that Tangerine (film) was noteworthy for being filmed on a phone. This talks about that and also mentions Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan. There are a few lists here. here, here, and here. While this and this aren't lists, if the aforementioned lists suffice, this can be added per WP:LISTN. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 02:58, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nominator. Clearly not a notable topic for a list. Ajf773 (talk) 07:58, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Agree with the nom, fails WP:GNG. Shellwood (talk) 10:47, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Smartphone Films is a topic made up of an editor here. Movies may be made using various gadgets, this doesn't make de facto "new types of film", unless we start seeing this type appear as a specific type of film in the mainstream media or press. We should not invent such "new types of film" here, nor make lists of the said type. Hoverfish Talk 17:55, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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