Talk:Mark N. Hopkins

Deletion? Really??

Unfortunately, I don't really have the time to fight this battle, but someone needs to fight it, IMHO. (I tried, unsuccessfully, to access the previous talk page.) It seems -- on the face of it -- a whimsical (and wrong) decision to delete the Hopkins' page. Hopkins directed and produced the following documentary which now links back to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_in_Emergency Furthermore, the film has more than one page on the Doctors Without Borders site. This is one of them: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/living-emergency/ The reason that was given for the (2nd?) deletion proposal is the following: "Minor filmmaker, with a biography filled with thinly sourced puffery." -- which is highly subjective, at best. I dare say the world might be a better place if we had more "minor filmmakers" like Mark Hopkins -- and "more…puffery" of the sort displayed on this page. Time permitting, I'll contact "Giant Snowman", but someone needs to go on record as objecting to this "request for deletion" that -- quite frankly -- defies logic. Given what I'm seeing here (review linked info), it would seem that my first objection to this, several days ago, should have been enough to put this matter to rest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion Unfortunately, it seems that we have another proposal for deletion. I will follow up… This article should not be deleted. Elizabeth Blandra (talk) 19:48, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

To be worked into body of article

1) A 2012 Hopkins' documentary short: https://player.vimeo.com/video/48447764 An Africa That Can Feed Africa 2012, and this http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FQOCk2hGuy8J:www.newsecuritybeat.org/2013/03/africa-feed-africa-removing-regional-barriers-trade-food-staples/+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari "“Africa in the last hundred years was developed to take resources out of Africa,” said the World Bank in an accompanying film (see above). “Trade [outside] Africa flows much more easily than the trade within Africa.”The suggestions outlined in Africa Can Help Feed Africa promote agricultural self-sufficiency, as well as poverty reduction on the continent, Diop said." (Emphasis added) 2) Filmography link (IMDB) 3) NPR interview and NY Times article, added by this editor (External links), recently 4) http://www.circleandsquare.tv/beyond-nakumatt.html (BEYOND THE NAKUMATT GENERATION Production Company: Red Floor Pictures Director + Producer: Mark Hopkins) 5) https://vimeo.com/32976732 Les Petite Barrieres — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elizabeth Blandra (talk • contribs) 20:57, 9 February 2017 (UTC) Elizabeth Blandra (talk) 21:29, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Trimming links or (indiscriminately?) cutting down the tree

To be worked into the body of the article:

(Even the link to the film was deleted.)

• Doctor's Without Borders: Living in Emergency

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• Film "Living in Emergency" on Vimeo

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• Documentary Maker Describes 'Living In Emergency'

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• New York Times Review: Treating the World's Sorrow and Pain

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• Filmography

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• NYCT Films

Elizabeth Blandra (talk) 17:13, 13 February 2017 (UTC)