Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Morevna Project

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Mackensen (talk) 23:24, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Morevna Project

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doubtful notability, ru-wiki article was deleted because of that Postoronniy-13 (talk) 10:57, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:48, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:48, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment: We do not operate en.Wikipedia by the different rules and policies set by other wikipedias. As this topic has received coverage,[1][2][3] we must judge here by our own notability standards. If the GNG is seen to be met, no matter what hapened at ru.Wikipedia, we would then opt for keeping and tagging for improvements. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 20:48, 25 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Cheers, Riley Huntley 00:10, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Theo polisme 23:27, 2 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - All the Google news links except the first one repeat the same thing "This article is part of an on-going series on the challenges I've faced in producing two free-licensed movies, Marya Morevna, through the Morevna Project and Lunatics, which we are working on as Anansi Spaceworks." and the last result is another brief mention. Additionally, it seems the author of all those entries is Terry Hancock who is connected to the Morevna Project, making it a primary source. Really, all I'm seeing is that the project's purpose is to work on a film adaption of the folk tale, they are working independently and using open source software but no other significant work, from what I'm aware. My own search provided this announcement seeking new artists. SwisterTwister talk 01:55, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per SwisterTwister above. --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 22:49, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per SwisterTwister above (I found similar results). Mr T ^(Talk?) ^{(New thread?)} 15:20, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Morevna Project is active and (IMHO) quite relevant to both free software and free culture. They just released their first finished animation demo, which is a 5-minute segment of the longer story. I'm not sure if it's valid to call me a "primary source". I have written about the project a lot; I have been in contact with the project leader; and I have contributed English-translation assistance. If that is sufficient to be considered a primary source, then it seems to me that this creates a significant disadvantage to open projects which accept such outside contributions. I covered Morevna Project because it is a landmark for free-culture and free-software film production, like the Blender Foundation "Open Movies" and like Sita Sings the Blues. Morevna is unique in its association with Synfig and in the fact that it is a film project following an open-source collaboration method. It has also been written about by a number of other sources, including LibreGraphicsWorld, LWN, and TET (I found these on the first page of a quick Google search). The demo film was also publicly screened recently. Although the article now correctly notes the use of non-free music in the demo, this is also true of both the Blender Foundation movies and "Sita Sings the Blues". We're still waiting to see a film project with a completely free soundtrack, although that is one of the goals on my own project. Digitante (talk) 22:11, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Per previous delete comments, my own searches find the same. Also, the Libre Graphics and TET sources mentioned are blog posts. I'm a bit dubious of the reliability of the LWN cite, but it's probably the best of the bunch. All in all, still well short of substantial coverage from reliable sources. If a better case can be made, now or in the future, happy to revisit. --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 14:08, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete for topic's failure of WP:N... HERE. While a decent article may well be possible in the future, the topic lacks enough independent coverage for inclusion. I did not want this deleted solely because it was deleted on some unrelated ru.Wikipedia elsewhere by some other set of rules, and wish to thank those above who looked at the topic through our own considerations. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 21:51, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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