Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bill Sharkey's Last Game
Deleting films from early cinematic history simply because the pre-internet newspapers that wrote about them are now dust, or that the film magazines that wrote of them did not survive two world wars, does an incredible dis-service to the encyclopdia. This is not as if these were films from some indie from last year that were never seen or written about.  For Hod's sake, we're talking about films 100 years old... films that represent the birth of an entire industry and ushered in the careers of dozens of notables.  Who wants to claim that some of these are not in a national archive?  Who wants to claim that no University ever has used these representative examples of early American cinema in their courses on early American film and cinema history?  Who can claim with a straight face that these films and actors were never covered by popular press 100 years ago. I have a realistic and reasonable presumption that such sources did exist at one time, even if some are dust now. Sheesh. These films singly and as a group represent a unique accomplishment in cinema (its birth), are milestones in the development of film art (US cinema), and contributes significantly to the development of a national cinema (US cinema).  These films features significant involvement by notable persons and are major parts of dozens of careers... not a doubt in my mind, even without having driven into Los Angeles to the USC Film Library.  And hey...these films were successfully distributed domestically in a country that was not then a major film producing country, as the US film industry was barely born in 1909, and were produced by this country's equivalent of a major film studio (and some of these studios are themselves now dust). |NOTABILITY IS NOT TEMPORARY
— User:MichaelQSchmidt, 16:13, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NTEMP (Wikipedia:Notability)