Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Historical deviations in Gladiator (2000 film)
only'' content backed by |reliable sources that comment on the film through a historical lens to Gladiator (2000 film).  Hard to believe that those who are voting "keep" do not see that the article is mostly |synthesis because most of the sources in the article are not even related to the film.  It's basically akin to picking up a history textbook and investigating the fallacies of a ''creative work'' on your own, so the claim that the article is "well-referenced" is flawed.  For such a high-profile film like this, there will be commentary by historians on the film itself, as evidenced by the smaller number of sources in the current article.  There are also similar sources at the film article's historical section... when proper clean-up is done to purge synthesis, all useful information can be kept in that particular historical section.  There is ''also'' the concern that this article is a  since it focuses on how this film (remember, it is a creative work) does not match up to actual history and does not say what, if anything, Ridley Scott got right about depicting the time period
— User:Erik, 16:16, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:SYN||WP:POVFORK (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)