The result was delete. Given the consensus that this is a hoax, the most sensible solution seems to be to delete. If someone wishes to start an article about a legitimate, real, non-hoax film festival in Bucharest, they are free to do so. —Tom Morris (talk) 07:44, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The Bucharest Film Festival never existed. It is a fictitious invention intended to lend credence to the creation of the fictitious Soviet flimmaker Yuri Gadyukin who also has a Wikipedia entry. While I did not feel obliged to edit a fictional character that someone had spent a lot of time creating; I do feel it inappropriate to invent a Festival and award ceremony that trades off the success of other films to establish verisimilitude. Furthermore, this fictitious article has already led to the spreading of misinformation. I feel very strongly that this is a bad thing.
The films cited as winning awards did not receive them. It is not defunct, it is fictitious. I spend a lot of time in Romania and there is no mention of the "Bucharest Film Festival" in the Romanian National archives. You can easily double check this as you will find few mentions of either the Festival or the "Golden Wolf" outside the Wikipedia entries pertaining to films that are alleged to have one it, and websites pertaining to Yuri Gadyukin. You will notice that all these websites have clearly been produced by the same source. Any websites that do refer to the Festival, I found one on Polanski's Knife in the Water, have, I imagine, received this information from the Wikipedia page. If you check any written work on the films of Roman Polanski, you will find no mention of either the Bucharest Film Festival or the Golden Wolf that Wikipedia claims it was awarded. An example of the further spreading of misinformation that I previously mentioned.
Additionally, if you check the "References" on either the Bucharest Film Festival page or the Gadyukin page you will see that all are authentic sources, but that none contain any reference to either a Bucharest Film Festival, a Golden Wolf, or one Yuri Gadyukin.
Ultimately, I'd ask the closer of this debate to courtesy-blank the discussion given some of the content in the original statement relates negatively back on a living person, and so should only be obviously visible for the period it is required (the AfD discussion period).
Regards,
Daniel (talk) 12:14, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]