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The result was delete‎. Sandstein 14:36, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of Sammarinese films of 2014[edit]

List of Sammarinese films of 2014 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Unsourced list of unclear necessity. Standard practice of WikiProject Film is that a country gets one base list of its films first, with separate by-year lists spun off only when that base list has become too large and needs to be chunked out for size management purposes -- but specifically in 2014, one user undertook a misguided project of creating standalone "list of country films of 2014" for every single country where they could find even one film to list, which has never otherwise been done for any other year before or since.
But this is a list of just one film that doesn't even have an article to link to, and San Marino doesn't even have a base list at all -- it's such a small country that it's deeply unlikely to have any significant film industry of its own, and is likely at best an annex to the Italian film industry (even the one film listed here is tagged by IMDb as a San Marino-Italy coprod), so that we don't even have a Cinema of San Marino overview, or a Category:Sammarinese films category, either. So no prejudice against the creation of List of Sammarinese films if somebody with some knowledge of the subject can be arsed to find more than one film to list in it, but we don't need a 2014-specific list, and with just one unlinked film here I can't mentally justify moving this to the general title myself if I can't find any other films to add to it. Bearcat (talk) 14:24, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film, Lists, and Europe. Bearcat (talk) 14:24, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom, no need to list a single non-notable film. I would recommend mass-deletion/redirection of most of this user's 2014 articles, few of which make any sense as standalone pages. Reywas92^Talk 15:50, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. Why state that it produced over 200 films in that year if you're only just going to list one film that doesn't even have an article? Makes no sense to me. Hell, even the IMDb source only has one entry, so I have no clue where the 200 figure came from. Sadustu Tau (talk) 17:00, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect the "200" figure may have just been uncorrected copy-pasting from the creator's boilerplate starter text, because it does seem incredibly implausible that a tiny country with only one-fifth the population of my own not-especially-large hometown actually produced that many films in one year when even the US generally only pulls off about 600. Also, even List of Italian films of 2014 features exactly the same "over 200 feature films" claim too, while also not listing anywhere near 200 films either, which bolsters my suspicion that the creator just copy-pasted boilerplate text without adjusting it. Bearcat (talk) 17:36, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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