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Delete. Given the buried lede that this was "originally shot for CBC Television", I was able to find verification in
ProQuest that it aired on Doc Zone in 2011 (meaning, in turn, that the claim that it was an American documentary film which premiered on CNBC in 2012 was just plain incorrect on all three counts) — but what I got is five different reprints of a single wire service article, which means I can add one usable source rather than five. But individual episodes of television documentary series are not "inherently" notable enough for standalone articles as separate topics from the overall series, this one doesn't have the Canadian Screen Award or Emmy nominations that would be needed to clinch it as automatically more notable than other episodes, its own self-published press releases are not notability-supporting sourcing at all, and one hit of real newspaper coverage isn't enough to turn the tide. If I were able to build out a comprehensive episode list for Doc Zone the way I've been able to for its more contemporary successor series CBC Docs POV, then I'd suggest redirecting it there — but I can't (even on
CBC Gem, all that's left of Doc Zone is a small handful of episodes from the final season, with nothing before that available at all), and I don't see a pressing need for this one to be singled out in that article for special mention in the absence of a comprehensive episode list, and without such a mention I can't justify a redirect either.
Bearcat (
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16:58, 8 June 2021 (UTC)reply
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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.
Delete. Given the buried lede that this was "originally shot for CBC Television", I was able to find verification in
ProQuest that it aired on Doc Zone in 2011 (meaning, in turn, that the claim that it was an American documentary film which premiered on CNBC in 2012 was just plain incorrect on all three counts) — but what I got is five different reprints of a single wire service article, which means I can add one usable source rather than five. But individual episodes of television documentary series are not "inherently" notable enough for standalone articles as separate topics from the overall series, this one doesn't have the Canadian Screen Award or Emmy nominations that would be needed to clinch it as automatically more notable than other episodes, its own self-published press releases are not notability-supporting sourcing at all, and one hit of real newspaper coverage isn't enough to turn the tide. If I were able to build out a comprehensive episode list for Doc Zone the way I've been able to for its more contemporary successor series CBC Docs POV, then I'd suggest redirecting it there — but I can't (even on
CBC Gem, all that's left of Doc Zone is a small handful of episodes from the final season, with nothing before that available at all), and I don't see a pressing need for this one to be singled out in that article for special mention in the absence of a comprehensive episode list, and without such a mention I can't justify a redirect either.
Bearcat (
talk)
16:58, 8 June 2021 (UTC)reply
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