Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The MySpace Movie

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. - Mailer Diablo 15:14, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The MySpace Movie

Non-notable movie, with neither an IMDB profile [1] or a Rotten Tomatoes profile [2]. Hasn't been mentioned in any non-trivial, notable media sources; and only 198 unique Google results, most of which are links to forums, blogs, and myspace profiles. [3]--TBCTaLk?!? 03:31, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Wikkipedia has an article on Gary_Brolsma of "Numa Numa" fame but another internet video with well thought out direction and great satire is not applicable for a database on almost anything? Wikkipedia never claims to NOT include privately developed movies (such as popular flash movies) and shouldn't delete an article on a pretty popular film. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.213.251.246 (talk • contribs)

• Keep. If you do a search for "Myspace: the Movie", there are mentions of it in the mainstream press: Boston Globe, SF Chronicle, NY Times, and Time. Most of the references are just mentions of the movie, or about the creator (rather than being about the video itself), but I do think that this particular web video is at least as notable as some of the other Internet Phenomena that are here. --- The Bethling^(Talk) 06:09, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete no IMDB entry, which is my bare-minimum inclusion standard for movies. Press mentions are brief and fleeting and don't even come close to adequately referencing the rather lengthy article. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 11:21, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Articles about this in The Washington Post [4], Rolling Stone Magazine [5], Esquire Magazine [6] and numerous other mainstream outlets. MySpace's founder Tom has referred to the movie. How many more references are needed? David Lehre has already been deleted although I think merging it with the movie article would have been better. I get 50,000 google results for "david lehre" and most of these seem to be this David Lehre and the MySpace Movie. A quick check of YouTube shows that the video has been viewed over 600,000 times on YouTube alone (not counting Myspace video plays etc), is number 40 in the all time YouTube favourites and has been rated 1722 times at four stars. [7]Citizensmith 13:46, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I think it's notable enough to be worth keeping. Trebor 15:30, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete No references are mentioned in the article itself as is required. The article reads like advertisement/promotion (maybe another viral way of "getting the word out"?). The minimal Ghits for what is primarily an internet-driven phenomenon indicates low notability. Zunaid 15:33, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Well then why not add the references, tidy it up but not delete it? As noted above it has got a considerable amount of media attention in prestige publications - internet driven or not.Citizensmith 15:41, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Comment. I went and added the references to the reactions section. The article does need quite a bit of work to bring it to Wikipedia standards, but I think that the subject is worth keeping for now. -- The Bethling^(Talk) 21:48, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom and Zunaid. --Aaron 16:42, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - It's notable enough, and as mentioned above, cited in popular culture a lot. If it's really necessary to move the article then Merge, but I do vote Keep.Srxcef 21:44, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep if its notable for USA Today[8] its notable for wikipedia. Arbusto 23:13, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

After checking the "eggtea" Youtube reference in that article via Google I see it did have over 7 million plays on that account. See Google cache [9]Citizensmith 23:31, 20 September 2006 (UTC)]

• Strong keep per media mentions. --badlydrawnjeff talk 10:58, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep God, I want to vote delete so badly as more myspace cruft but the mainstream media attention is hard to ignore. 205.157.110.11 09:48, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Internetcruft, myspacecruft. Unless the reference in the paper was on the front page. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk) 05:17, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
• keep please media mentions demonstrate notability erasing this makes no sense at all Yuckfoo 20:54, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I googled MySpace: The Movie and got 45,600,000 results. So what is all this nonsense about it not being notable enough. All of you who want to delete the article need to get your priorities straight. You hypocrites don't have any qualms about their being such an overlong article about Slashdot trolling phenomena. --Adamv88 01:09, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

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.