Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Animal Trilogy

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. In light of " I was initially going to propose a merge, but looking into it more, I agree with the nominator that this current article is fairly worthless when it comes to information on the trilogy, as it is just information, and sources, on each of the individual movies and not on the trilogy as a whole, thus merging seems somewhat pointless" and because there is no consensus on a redirect target; people can add redirects at editorial discretion. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:29, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Animal Trilogy

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This is merely a content fork of paragraphs from the articles for the individual films. None of the sources, or this article discuss this so-called "trilogy" in depth. There may be a case for an article that considers the artistic merits of the trilogy as a whole (properly sourced of course), but this is not it. WP:TNT applies here, as this article is pretty worthless as it stands. --wooden superman 09:16, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 09:39, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Italy-related deletion discussions. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 09:39, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I don't see sources referring them as series. If this is an uncommon name for the three movies by the same director, then a sentence the director's own article should suffice, there is no need for an additional article to explain a simple noun. Viztor (talk) 10:40, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Dario Argento. The "Animal Trilogy" is definitely a commonly used title for the three movies, as plenty of references can be found that refer to them as such. However, nearly all of these don't talk about the trilogy as a whole in any meaningful way - they talk about the individual movies that are part of it, while referencing the fact that they are dubbed "The Animal Trilogy", but that's it. I have only found one source that actually talks in-depth about the trilogy as a whole, which is here. And, while decent, I don't feel that this is enough to support an article. However, the term "Animal Trilogy" should definitely be kept as a Redirect to the director's article, and the information on the trilogy that is already in that article can be bolstered. I was initially going to propose a merge, but looking into it more, I agree with the nominator that this current article is fairly worthless when it comes to information on the trilogy, as it is just information, and sources, on each of the individual movies and not on the trilogy as a whole, thus merging seems somewhat pointless. Rorshacma (talk) 15:48, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Actually, I would redirect to Giallo#Titles because this particular "trilogy" of unrelated films started a fad during the 1970s and 1980s, which is best discussed in that article, because it isn't confined to the one director. See ISBN 9780786486090 p. 71 and ISBN 9781461664161 p. 170. Uncle G (talk) 01:57, 22 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.