Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Critical documentary

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 19:45, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Critical documentary

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Is this a case of WP:NOTESSAY or WP:NOTDICTIONARY? This is the only contribution of the creator - sounds like he heard the term and decided it needed an article Gbawden (talk) 08:18, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, borderline speedy - Fails WP:NOTDICTIONARY and probably WP:MADEUP. The author has apparently read the phrase 'a critical documentary' (about a documentary film that was critical of Wal-Mart) and interpreted it as an established phrase. Many documentaries are critical of something. Finding something bad that you want to be more widely publicised is part of the genre. There's no specific genre of 'critical documentaries'. Blythwood (talk) 10:38, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. /wiae /tlk 12:08, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete When my PROD was removed, the excuse was that there were references to be found in Google books, but doing a search there finds largely "crtical" just being used as an adjective describing a documentary, not a separate genre. The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film has the phrase but once, Creative Documentary: Theory and Practice has it twice... and these are books that show up high on the search results, and would seem the very thing to cover the topic should it be a real genre. Even if it were a genre, this essay is largely word salad, and would have to be nuked down to being nothing more than a definition. --Nat Gertler (talk) 18:03, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Risk Issues and Crisis Management in Public Relations (page 122) doesn't give a definition of critical documentary at all, it merely uses the phrase. Media and Left mentions "the revival of critical documentary filmmaking", but has nothing else to say on the subject. The article itself is incomprehensible; no amount of copyediting could fix it. Delete per WP:NONSENSE Mduvekot (talk) 16:19, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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