Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Lone Ranger (film project)
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
— User:Erik, 11:51, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:NFF||WP:SIZE (Wikipedia:Notability)