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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 21:24, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sam Bahadur (film)[edit]

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WP:TOOSOON article about an as yet unreleased film, not reliably sourced as the subject of sufficient coverage to divorce its notability from the primary inclusion criteria for films. As always, we do not necessarily want to indiscriminately maintain an article about every future film that enters the production pipeline -- with rare exceptions for films that garner a lot of coverage during the production process (e.g. Star Wars or Marvel films), we're normally only interested in films that have actually been released, and can show notability factors like having been reviewed by professional film critics and/or winning or being nominated for major film awards. But the release date here is still TBA, and the sourcing consists of two unreliable sources that aren't support for notability at all and two very short blurbs that aren't substantive enough to deem this as having already cleared the bar. Obviously this is without prejudice against recreation in the future if and when the film has been released and clears the notability bar accordingly, but nothing here is enough to deem this film already notable today. Bearcat (talk) 19:22, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:22, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:22, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I think this is a candidate for delete as the article is based on proposed announcement. I feel article for announced or not released films should not be allowed.Advait.kansal (talk) 08:34, 13 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Draftify would be my vote. Has notable people associated with it so it might become notable. Nomadicghumakkad (talk) 18:46, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The problem with the draftify solution is that one or two more citations and the editor will resubmit their article to move to article space. And then we have this discussion all over again. Platonk (talk) 07:16, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Fails GNG and NFF. Per Notability, future films: "Films that have not been confirmed by reliable sources to have commenced principal photography should not have their own articles, as budget issues, scripting issues and casting issues can interfere with a project well ahead of its intended filming date. The assumption should also not be made that because a film is likely to be a high-profile release it will be immune to setbacks—there is no "sure thing" production." Platonk (talk) 07:16, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: The production does not seem to meet WP:NFF guidelines yet. -- Ab207 (talk) 15:00, 16 October 2021 (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.