Film: Festivals / American List‑class

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It would be much appreciated if some editors could help check the wikilinks to people and make sure the article points to the proper person. If the wikilink does NOT seem to point to the correct person, I suppose the brackets can be removed or if an editor is feeling bold they could create a new page for that person. Any help would be great. Thanks. --Pixelface 21:28, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I think I've finished checking the wikilinks to people. But these names could be shared by more than one person: Adam Deacon, Andrew Johnston, Chris Rich, Jake Sumner, and Yin Chang. --Pixelface 00:21, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:NOT#DIRECTORY. This article appears to be mainly a schedule of events, something that belongs on an external website. A Wikipedia article should summarize the festival itself. I would suggest a one or two paragraph summary for now, and maybe a short list, and merge it with Slamdance Film Festival. --Vossanova ^o< 23:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A schedule gives lists of intended events and times and this article contains no such thing. This article merely lists films appearing at the festival and gives extra information like director, country of origin, runtime, writer, cast, and URLS -- information I believe is quite useful. Are you suggesting that all future festivals (like 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, etc) be merged into the Slamdance Film Festival article? --Pixelface 04:38, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Useful, I'm sure. Notable for encyclopedia inclusion, I'm not sure. Also see Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. If the films have their own articles, then this one should only show the film title with a link to the article. Think of it like a magazine article. Is there media coverage of the festival? That should be referenced. If you really do want a list of films, it should go in a separate article like List of films at 2007 Sundance Film Festival, so people who jump to the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival article aren't hit with a long list unless they specifically want it. I know you could use 2007 Sundance Film Festival as justification for your current layout, but I'm not particularly happy with the length of that article either. --Vossanova ^o< 15:03, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, see 2007 Sundance Film Festival/Shorter for a concept of how we could at least reduce the page length. --Vossanova ^o< 15:32, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't feel this page qualifies as an indiscriminate collection of information. But I would consider (A) a separate page titled List of films at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival (B) hidden tables (C) losing the table format and instead writing a few sentences on each film (and putting the list on a separate page if necessary).

I could just list the film titles but I think that the cast/writer/director information is useful until a page is created for each film--and especially if a page is never created. If a film receives an award, it's likely a page will be created for it, but I see no reason people should have to go to another site to find out cast/writer/director on the minor films. And I agree, a Media coverage section needs to be added. Your thoughts? --Pixelface 10:26, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The first step you could take would be to remove all the rows for Written by and Starring where they are "N/A" or "unknown". Then, you could consider adding hidden tags or a div style="font-size:85%" HTML tag to shrink the text. --Vossanova ^o< 14:44, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I left the N/A and unknown in there to make it easier for other people to add information if they were unfamiliar with tables. I've added the 85% font size to the tables. What do you think? --Pixelface 00:39, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]