Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Films featuring a white protagonist in Africa (2nd nomination)

Films featuring a white protagonist in Africa

Deserves second consideration after no consensus result last time. Generally trivial list, should probably be merged into any of the popular culture articles on film or books. Bulldog123 22:36, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as listcruft. Do we need to create Films featuring an Asian protagonist in Africa as well? eaolson 23:14, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as listcruft per WP:NOT#INFO. Why people insist on creating all these lists? Under what possible conceivable situation would someone actually search for this? Why not create Films featuring an LGBT protagonist in Africa? --Nonstopdrivel 23:16, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, if you can find academic sources for that topic. WP:NOT#INFO says nothing about "listcruft". The list is evidently useful as credible people have studied the topic and written or filmed about it. Once the article is improved, it can be linked more heavily from related articles. –Pomte 03:38, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete Perhaps this information could be useful in another article; the theme appears to be "ethnic stereotypes", with a white person portrayed as explorer, missionary, etc.; it goes off on so many different tangents that I'm missing the point. Maybe a list of films set in sub-Saharan Africa would make more sense. There is some merit in studying race as a factor in casting of films--such as the roles assigned to African-American, Asian or Hispanic actors, etc., in American movies. This article will probably disappear, but I urge the author to save it and retool. Mandsford 23:58, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as far too trivial. Why not make Films featuring an American Indian, left-handed protagonist in Oklahoma? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps)))} 00:08, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, if you can find academic sources for that topic. –Pomte 03:38, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - the topic is the subject of multiple reliable sources discussing the sub-genre. That articles on other ethnicities on other continents don't exist has no bearing on whether this article should exist. Otto4711 01:03, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- It's not a sub-genre. It's more like a phenomena in film. But why should it be separate from the other phenomena? Most of which are in XX in popular culture articles. Bulldog123 01:46, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep for the exact same reason as last time. Over the next two days I'll work on making the article more coherent with citations to the already-linked sources as well as adding more sources. –Pomte 03:38, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- It's not the quality, it is the content. Bulldog123 03:48, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]