Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Gus (1976 film)


 * 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. BD2412 T 03:52, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Gus (1976 film)
I PRODded this as it only has one, totally unremarkable quote "Ready, Gus. Oich!". The tag was removed without comment so i am bringing the page to VfD. — Abramsky (talk) 08:56, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 09:00, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:31, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott (talk) 14:37, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep: I have not seen this film, so I do not know if the quote is "totally unremarkable". (For those who have seen the film, it may be memorable. ) I do not see any harm in keeping this page. ~ DanielTom (talk) 17:19, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I think the question is, would it ever appear in a dictionary of film quotes? My belief is that it would not.--Abramsky (talk) 11:31, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 * One way I've described it in the past: if a quote is dependent on a context that must be seen or heard, it's not a good quote for a purely text compendium. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 11:04, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
 * The solution is to add an explanatory note (so that the quote's relevance can be better appreciated), not to delete the page. (For example, "Mother." alone may not seem a notable quote [or a "good" quote, as Jeff puts it], but it appears in Last words in Game of Thrones media, with a note explaining its context, and no one would think of deleting it.) ~ DanielTom (talk) 12:11, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
 * It is not the case that no one would think of deleting the last words. ~ Ningauble (talk) 13:16, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Not sure that's the best example to argue for inclusion, as "Mother" is neither much of a quote nor even original in its context. Heck, I recall seeing Daffy Duck say that many times as violence was done to him in WB cartoons that are older than most Wikiquotians, and he's probably referencing even older black-and-white film scenes. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:04, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. As I have often observed, quotations are by their very nature taken out of context, and good quotations are precisely those whose memorability transcends context. This one does not. The harm in keeping pages like this has, alas, already happened a long time ago: a great many contributors have gotten the impression that the purpose of Wikiquote is to memorialize shows, or memorable moments in shows, rather than to memorialize brilliant and famous quotations. The pervasiveness of this sort of activity prompted my very first comment on Wikiquote policy almost five years ago, and it continues on many days to completely dominate the Recent Changes log. ~ Ningauble (talk) 13:16, 16 July 2013 (UTC)