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The result of the debate was keep, now that it's reliably sourced.—Silly Dan (talk) 14:46, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Brian De Palma (talk - history - links - logs)
Havac said I should VfD this on IRC. Allegedly, De Palma helped write the opening crawl for Episode IV; other than that, he has no notability. Now, the citation for the claim is his IMDb page, where it's under the trivia section; not really a trustworthy source. However, the BBC's article also supports the claim, which is trustworthy. So, I must say I'm leaning towards keep. -LtNOWIS 19:11, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
- I'm not voting yet, but I would like to remind everyone that perfectly legitimate news sources have a long history of taking and running with unfounded rumors from Internet sources they consider to be trustworthy. They do this because they needn't fear being caught with egg on their faces, because no one cares. Except us geeks. Gonk (Gonk!) 19:54, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
- Delete; just seems useless and somewhat unrelated. Chack Jadson Talk 20:00, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
- I'd say keep: current evidence shows that he had something to do with the films. Of course, we should either delete it or rewrite and recategorize it along the lines of our England article if the claims in the article can be shown to be false. Does the claim appear in any print sources on the making of the films, I wonder? —Silly Dan (talk) 22:15, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
- Keep. I added a source (Insider 94), and I bet the Making of Star Wars can confirm it too (which I'll soon look into). -- Ozzel 23:00, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
- Keep... whether or not he helped write the opening crawl, I think his role in the auditioning thing is enough for him to "deserve" an article here. KEJ 23:02, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
- BTW, we now have solid proof that he helped write the opening crawl based on a direct quote from Lucas. -- Ozzel 02:17, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
- Considering he wrote some of the most famous lines in Star Wars, keep. Thefourdotelipsis 02:29, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
- Per Ozzel and Fourdot. jSarek 02:37, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
- Verified = keep. Green Tentacle (Talk) 08:38, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
- Keep—I find your desire to delete this article disturbing. Atarumaster88
(Talk page) 14:39, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
