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Comment Re:Everyone is interested in something different (Score 2, Informative) 720

Let's get some things straight:
  1. Wikipedia is not "run" by admins or by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is run by thousands upon thousands of users, all of whom have a voice. Since it is open for anyone to join, anyone having a problem with Wikipedia can influence Wikipedia policy by being directly involved. "Calling for policy change" from outside Wikipedia is pointless. Anthropomorphising Wikipedia is pointless, too. Wikipedia is you.
  2. Speedy deletion is reserved for special cases (patent nonsense, vandalism, experimentation gone wrong, etc). It is never used to enforce notability. Every case of something being considered non-notable goes through the full deletion process, and the decision on whether or not to delete is made by consensus following a lengthy (7-day) discussion. Articles are not suddenly deleted for not being noteworthy. If someone does speedy delete an article for this, it's a breach of policy and an admin can be contacted to sort it out.
  3. Even if it attempts to contain the totality of all human knowledge, Wikipedia has to have limits as to what gets included. Would you consider an article on each of your toe clippings from last week worthy of inclusion? The line has to be drawn somewhere. Where it gets drawn is a subject of constant debate and refinement. As per (1), you are welcome to engage in that debate.
  4. If you read the guideline for notability, you would see that it is strongly tied in to verifiability. If you add vast amounts of content to Wikipedia without bothering to reference any of it, don't be surprised or angry if it gets deleted. Without references, it is extremely difficult (and sometimes impossible) for other editors to verify that what you contributed is true, and this opens the way for the inclusion of false information.
As for your article, it doesn't cite a single source, and seems not to be anything other than a plot summary from the movie, so looks like it will probably be deleted. If you really want to save it, all you need to do is to put in some references to sources besides the movie itself, and call attention to that in the AfD discussion.

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