Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/End Day

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The result was keep‎. $Salvio giuliano$ 15:03, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

End Day

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No compliance with the criteria of significance. No reviews or awards. No WP:NFILM.--Тихонова Пустынь (talk) 10:15, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film and Television. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 11:05, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
~~Weak delete~~. I found this article in The Guardian about how it got pulled from schedules after the Boxing Day Tsunami, this recent article about how it was one of Gareth Edwards' first films, and a couple of very short pieces like this one. I don't think that's quite enough to establish notability, but could be persuaded if there is another good source. MCE89 (talk) 11:38, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. The two additional book sources found by Cunard below are enough to persuade me that this satisfies GNG. MCE89 (talk) 14:31, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.
1. Banks-Smith, Nancy (2005-03-17). "The inedible journey". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2025-07-28. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
  The review notes: "End:Day (BBC3) was surprisingly exhilarating. It just zipped along. You feel that the end of the world, however discouraging, will not be dull. Dr Howell, a personable scientist in specs, who appeared on the cover of clever magazines, made several Groundhog Day attempts to fly from London to New York. First a tsumani struck the east coast of America, then a meteor hit Berlin, then a pandemic reached London, then Yellowstone Park erupted. Oh, those poor bears. Undeterred by these disasters, Dr Howell finally made it to America and ended the world himself by starting a particle accelerator experiment. This released a killer strangelet, which devoured the earth. I know, I know. It says here it's a hypothetical form of matter composed of a particular flavour of quark. After each doomsday catastrophe, real scientists insisted with what one could not but feel was misplaced cheeriness, that it was only a matter of time. They were, however, sceptical about the strangelet. Me too."
2. Artemyeva, Olga (2025-07-04). "The Director of 'Jurassic World Rebirth' Got His Start With This Forgotten End of the World Documentary". Collider. Archived from the original on 2025-07-28. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
  The article notes: "Edwards' first major and very representative work was End Day—a 2005 docudrama that offered the audience five different, but all very plausible, scenarios for an apocalypse. Produced by the BBC, it had a very modest budget and a concise runtime of only 48 minutes, but that didn't stop it from packing a significant punch, as all the doomsday versions in it are realistic and mostly based on actual facts, which still makes the effect of the film much stronger than any special effects could. ... But while End Day does contain a cautionary tale about being mindful of nature and everything that still remains unknown about it, as well as an effective parting pun about the conceit of some representatives of the scientific world, there isn't much hope here in terms of what humanity can do in the face of the apocalypse. Which just makes the film's already deep impact more profound—pun intended."
3. Murphy, Patrick D. (2017). The Media Commons: Globalization and Environmental Discourses. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-04103-7. Retrieved 2025-07-28 – via Google Books.
  The book notes: "One of the more interesting of these was the BBC 2005 docudrama "End Day," which presents Earth's demise with five different endings, "each predicted by scientists." "What's the worst that could happen in just one day?" asks the promotion's voiceover. The answer, apparently, is a global pandemic starting in the United Kingdom, a meteor storm crashing to earth in Berlin, a giant tsunami hitting the U.S. East Coast, the explosion of a supervolcano in Yellowstone Park, or a particle accelerator experiment gone wrong that creates an Earth-devouring black hole. The stories (plural, as there are five versions) follow a particular morning in the life of Dr. R. Howell, a scientist who wakes up in a London hotel prior to a controversial experiment that he and his team are set to conduct that, according to the news program playing in the background, "could cause the destruction of the Earth." Each twelve-minute segment of the docudrama presents in Groundhog Day-like fashion the same morning but casts the events in five different ways to profile how each one of the different Earth-ending disasters might unfold. These various versions all present the experts and officials who address the public during the unfolding crises as reassuring figures under pressure who are ultimately misguided, however, as they have greatly underestimated the true force and impact of what's in store. In each scenario, television plays a significant role for how the day's events are framed and interpreted."
4. Larsen, Kristine (2019). Particle Panic!: How Popular Media and Popularized Science Feed Public Fears of Particle Accelerator Experiments. Cham: Springer Nature. p. 49. ISBN 978-3-030-12205-8. ISSN 2197-1188. Retrieved 2025-07-28 – via Google Books.
  The book notes: "A far lower budget fictionalization summarizing many of the most popular end of the world scenarios is End:Day, a 2005 BBC docudrama directed by Gareth Edwards. The program follows a series of parallel scenarios affecting one day in the life of Dr. Ron Howell (blending original drama footage with interviews of scientists from previous BBC science programs). Howell, the deputy director of the world's largest particle accelerator at the TBM facility near New York (probably based on the RHIC collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island), attempts to fly to New York from England for the opening of the facility. He finds his travel plans thwarted by a variety of end-of-the world scenarios: a mega tsunami devastating New York City, a killer asteroid hitting Germany, the Yellowstone supervolcano erupting, and a highly contagious virus. Howell makes it to New York in the final segment, because the doomsday scenario is, in fact, his accelerator creating a black hole (called "one of the most destructive forces in the universe"), a strangelet (having "the power to devour the earth"), or both (as both scenarios are mentioned in the fake newscasts) [6]. ... Given the powerful images the viewer has just seen, it is quite possible that Close's assurances will either be ignored or viewed with suspicion."
5. Additional sources:
  1. Hooks, Barbara (2006-05-11). "PAY TV - Sunday". The Age. Archived from the original on 2025-07-28. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
    The article notes: "All good things must come to an end - including planet Earth. But how? If this BBC special is right, it won't be with a whimper but a jolly big bang. End Day dramatises four scenarios for our planetary demise - mega tsunami, comet or asteroid attack, killer virus and science gone wrong in the form of a failed particle acceleration experiment. Between scenarios in this scientific Ground Hog Day, geologists, doctors and scientists put each disaster in the context of history and outline the chances of it happening. Only three out of the four are possible, even probable. But as Dirty Harry said to the punk: "Do you feel lucky?" "
  2. Drake, Kimberley (2005-04-21). "End Day". Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 2025-07-28. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
    The article notes: "After dropping it from the schedules earlier this year, BBC3 are giving this disaster docu-drama another try. Five apocalypse scenarios are seen through the eyes of a man who relives his day five times as he attempts to travel to New York (a kind of doomed Groundhog Day). CGI effects are used to dramatise each Armageddon: a tsunami, a falling comet, a supervolcano, a lethal virus and a black hole. Cheery stuff."
There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow End Day to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".
Cunard (talk) 08:26, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per above rationale. --BrayLockBoy (talk) 01:49, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Coverage listed above is enough for GNG. Somebodyidkfkdt (talk) 14:50, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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