Talk:Economics film genre

This article was nominated for deletion on 18 January 2025. The result of the discussion was redirect.

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Evidence of essay approach

This article started as completely unsourced as seen here. Then editor Casualorangejuicefan got involved, leading to the article looking like this. It seems fine at first glance, but it turns out that this is the editor's essay as evidenced at User:Casualorangejuicefan/sandbox. A closer look at the article shows extensive POV writing using sources that do not actually comment on economics films. @Mushy Yank: See aforementioned. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 12:30, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've started removing completely-unsourced content. The "sourced" content do not appear to about economics films at all but are rather WP:OR used by the editor to make their own arguments, which is completely inappropriate. I suspect that after removing all of the OR claims, this topic will be stripped down to almost nothing. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 12:38, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This may be a good source, but I am not sure if there are any more like it. I saw some sources that study economical elements in certain films, like this, but that does not make them economics films per se. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 13:10, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. The idea that economic topics have been portrayed in film is uncontroversial, but "economics in film" is not the same as "economics film"! Sources about the former do not establish that the latter exists as a genre. XOR'easter (talk) 19:19, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If the list gets deleted, maybe it would be worth creating a stubby economics in film article? And put this one up for AFD? I feel like there is no value in this one's page history. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 02:34, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]