Deletion of The Lone Ranger (film project)

Comment: per the |notability guidelines for future films, which states not to have a stand-alone article until the start of filming. The "film project" articles are not supported by guidelines; they are the so-called occasional exceptions that need to be justified. (For example, ''The Hobbit'' had a stand-alone article due to  since there was much more coverage than normal, with a lot of reported-on activities.) This ''Lone Ranger'' project has been in development since 2002, over nine years, and news coverage of this non-topic is appropriate in the broader article about The Lone Ranger. The point of the threshold for the start of filming is to have a near-guarantee that a film ''will'' be made. Can anyone imagine an article created for this project back in 2002? It would be an article that would violate the spirit of WP:CRYSTAL over the years, constantly anticipating for a film to be released to no avail. An article about a fictional work is supposed to discuss its reception and significance. The start of filming as a threshold is very early since outsiders will not be able to assess it for a year or two, so to have an article even before that threshold is extremely premature
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NFF||WP:SIZE)

Comment: Edison's points were adressing a premature userfication in that an article should not be moved during the course of an AFD, and that per  what is currently in mainspace at The Lone Ranger#Planned Lone Ranger film is enough mainspace space about this project, for now, until such time as an independent mainspace article might be merited.  His points were not addressing |incubation for continued work out of mainspace, which reasonable option is entirely supported by guideline and serves to improve the project
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NFF||WP:INCUBATE)