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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 04:10, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping (film)[edit]

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Article created by now-blocked WP:COI. Sources don't demonstrate WP:NOTE as either non-WP:RS or non-WP:V (the one "press article" cited is really a link to the production company's web site, and searching that paper's archives didn't turn anything up). While the subject of the film is certainly notable, WP:BEFORE does not show any sources to comply with significant coverage in independent sources about the film itself. Unable to find evidence meets WP:GNG or WP:NFILM. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 17:48, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:51, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Delete per WP:G11. Substantially created by blocked editor who unambiguously intended it as promotion. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 21:56, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: It looks like part of this is copyvio from the DVD jacket synopsis, so it could be speedied as copyvio at the very least. However overall the issue I'm running into with sourcing is that the majority of coverage for this tends to cover the performer and the performance pieces that he occasionally does, not the documentary film in specific. I found the Boston Globe review, however the other reviews listed in the press release look to be reviews of the guy's overall performance of this character, which he's done as performance art for years. For instance this is listed in the press release as a review, however it's clearly a review of a performance art piece done in 2000 at a Starbucks. He might have recorded some of this for his documentary, but this isn't mentioned in the article. Honestly, I don't see where there's really enough here to justify an independent article, as the bulk of this could likely be covered in a small subsection in the main article for the character. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:35, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Basically, there's technically enough here to pass NFILM but not enough to really show how this would build upon the pre-existing article. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 15:23, 4 March 2017 (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.