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The result was delete. Sr13 06:09, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of films about trains (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

WP:NOT violations. The list also seems to think that every movie with a train featured in it is about trains. Bulldog123 17:05, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong delete as nom Bulldog123 17:06, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film and TV-related deletions. -- Jacek Kendysz 17:12, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. As per nom. Wikipedia is not a directory.--Edtropolis 17:36, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete what makes a film "about" trains seems to be entirely subjective and hence POV and OR. E.g., Murder on the Orient Express (I'm an Agatha Christie fan) is about a murder with a contained group of suspects a scene à faire in Christie's writings – there are at least three other stories about murders on trains, The Mystery of the Blue Train, 4.50 From Paddington, and The Plymouth Express, some of which have been made into films, and plenty of others on isolated islands, archaeological digs, on planes, or in closed rooms). In any event, whether its "about" trains is in the eye of the beholder, about as much as the movie Titanic is about cars because the steamy love scene occurs in one. Carlossuarez46 18:16, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete- per all of the above. Eddie 18:19, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete due to omitting of The Station Agent. I mean, per above. Propaniac 18:55, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete insubstantial list. Like I've said in previous list AfDs, the role of trains in films would be more appropriate as prose with real-world context, as opposed to a list of trivia. There is no definition for what films would be appropriate to list, so the list is entirely subjective. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 19:11, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as listcruft per above. --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 19:44, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Indiscriminate list, apparently just featuring an appearance by a train is enough for a film to be included. Masaruemoto 00:12, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Delete Notwithstanding the fact that this is actually a list of any film at all in which at least one train appears, List of Films about x articles are inherently going to fail WP:UNENC unless x is something absolutely extraordinary. Trains are not. A1octopus 18:45, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. WP:NOT and WP:OR. Since when are films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind about trains? Since never. Indiscriminate list of every film that even shows a train = not fit for an encyclopedia. María (críticame) 15:25, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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