Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hit Girls
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The result was redirect to Maria Tran#Acting career. Owen× ☎ 12:57, 26 July 2025 (UTC)
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Fails WP:NFILM. PROD was removed when a review was identified, but that review comes from a BLOG, which is not a WP:RS. DonaldD23 talk to me 12:10, 19 July 2025 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film and Australia. DonaldD23 talk to me 12:10, 19 July 2025 (UTC)
- Redirect to Maria Tran#Acting career, where this is mentioned and seeing as she is all of the director, producer, writer and main performer. Agree that it isn't a notable "film?" and I can barely find anything supporting notability. Bungle (talk • contribs) 12:53, 19 July 2025 (UTC)
- Keep: One criteria for notability for films reads as follows: "The film features significant involvement (i.e., one of the most important roles in the making of the film) by a notable person and is a major part of their career." The film-maker in this case, Maria Tran, is considered notable and this film is the first example of her being a co-director. If her career is notable, which it is, then this film is notable as an initial major step in that career.Perry Middlemiss (talk) 22:32, 19 July 2025 (UTC)
- Well... the catch here is that if the film was that major and formulative for her, there would be independent coverage for the film. In other words, in order to bypass WP:NOTINHERITED you'll have to show where there's coverage establishing that this film was major and important to their career. It's kind of a given that a notable director/actor/etc will put out work early in their career and learn from it - to show that it was a major milestone for their career you will still need coverage focusing on the movie. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 12:33, 22 July 2025 (UTC)
- Now, this hasn't gained a lot of coverage. I found no coverage in Newspapers.com, so I'm looking for reviews and the like. I did find a review from Asian Movie Pulse - the site didn't look like much, but I do see where it's used as a source in academic/scholarly books put out by Taylor & Francis, Edinburg University Press, and Brill. It was also used in a book by Heidi Honeycutt, who has a fairly good pedigree as a genre journalist (Fangoria, Rue Morgue, etc). So I'd say that it would be usable as a source - that's just a single source, though. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 12:41, 22 July 2025 (UTC)
- Well... the catch here is that if the film was that major and formulative for her, there would be independent coverage for the film. In other words, in order to bypass WP:NOTINHERITED you'll have to show where there's coverage establishing that this film was major and important to their career. It's kind of a given that a notable director/actor/etc will put out work early in their career and learn from it - to show that it was a major milestone for their career you will still need coverage focusing on the movie. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 12:33, 22 July 2025 (UTC)
- Redirect to Maria Tran#Acting career. I wasn't able to find anything else to help establish notability. The impact of the film on her career is also not firmly established. There aren't really many articles that explicitly mention this having a huge impact on her career. Even her own website only mentions it in passing. Do I think that it had a huge impact? Yes, absolutely. But the places that mention this are more self-published sources and I wasn't able to establish reliability for them like I was for Asian Movie Pulse. Even if I could, the mention is more in passing and as mentioned prior, there would need to be more substantial coverage about its impact to really show that this is an exception to WP:NOTINHERITED. To be honest, that part of NFILM is more meant to cover people like say, Steven Spielberg and his early film Firelight, which would later influence him to make Close Encounters. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 13:05, 22 July 2025 (UTC)
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