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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 02:39, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

100 best films of Mexican cinema (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log • AfD statistics)

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Purely WP:POV article as is. I'm skeptical as to whether any article which focuses on the list's cultural impact could be written, as I doubt whether this has the cultural relevance and garnered the response that some other lists have (such as the Rolling Stone (magazine) lists The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time). The group which put together this list -- the Mexican Cinema Club -- don't have an article yet, and while that doesn't necessarily mean they aren't notable, it should be noted. After some googling I've not managed to find much relevant content to support its inclusion - only some links which don't really meet WP:RS (such as [1]). I do concede that the language barrier may be impeding me here, though. Nonetheless, I think the contents fails WP:NOTOPINION, and the list fails WP:GNG.

What's more, this currently copies the list, and there are copyright concerns associated with that, too. Similar concerns were outlined with the RS lists, and the arguments can be read here. AllynJ (talk | contribs) 16:05, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Clearly violates POV and other guidelines mentioned by the nom. Artem Karimov (talk | edits) 19:20, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Reproduces an entirely subjective list of the Mexican Cinema Club. Carrite (talk) 20:00, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Turns out that this was a list published in 1994 by the Mexican magazine Somos (or perhaps Somos Mexicanos[2] (translation available) on the occasion of its 100th issue, and cited by the club 16 years later, but I have my doubts on the notability of the list (the magazine itself is, or was, probably notable), and it's not clear where the titles came from. A search of news doesn't turn up any reporting of the list [3]. I don't see a problem in someone mentioning the list and throwing in the link in the article Cinema in Mexico. I hate to see information lost, given that Wikipedia fairly well ignores its own rules when it comes to English-language entertainment, but I can't see the list itself as a stand-alone article. Mandsford 21:02, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:15, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:15, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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