Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Exclusion (film) (2nd nomination)

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The result was redirect‎ to Deepa Mehta as an acceptable ATD. Owen× ☎ 17:35, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Exclusion (film)

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Article about a film that has never actually been released, not properly referenced as passing WP:NFF criteria. It is true that Deepa Mehta announced about 15 years ago that a film about the Komagata Maru was entering development -- but it's never actually been completed or released at all, and certainly not in 2014 as this article claims (per this article, which states that the film was "still in the pipeline" as of 2019.)
But the references here are mainly primary sources and dead links, which are not support for notability — and the only nominally acceptable source is a brief glancing (and likely erroneous) namecheck of it in an overview of Mehta's entire career, not coverage about this film. And while a bit of reliable source coverage can be found about her announcement that this was going into development, there's not enough of that to suggest a reason why a never-finished film could remain permanently notable despite its failure to ever come to fruition: there's no evidence that it even entered photography at all, and the search string "Deepa Mehta exclusion" mainly just brings up references to the narrative themes of Beeba Boys and Funny Boy.
So this film was simply never completed or released at all, and thus isn't permanently notable as an unrealized project. Bearcat (talk) 16:05, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film, India, and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 16:05, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Deepa Mehta -My, oh my! (Mushy Yank) 20:21, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Fails WP:NFILM. The film was never made. It never even reached principal photography. In 2006, Deepa Mehta was doing the planning and research and not all the cast were confirmed such as Amitabh Bachchan who the maker had a wish list to cast him. 4 sources on the page, source 1 is just an entry , Source 2,3 is 404 page not found and source 4 is unreliable with just a passing mention incorrectly calling it 2014 film. No need to have a page on the film that does not even exist. RangersRus (talk) 13:53, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I can't find reliable sources that discuss this film being released or even going into principal photography so I have to agree with RangersRus. (It's not even on IMDb.) Two sources in the article are dead links and the other two are trivial mentions and not necessarily reliable source evidence that the film was made. Dclemens1971 (talk) 16:36, 22 October 2024 (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.