User talk:Pratulka
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Pratulka,
Your revision of the Amitabh article is NOT OK because you have made the lead paragraph much too long. There is a common style used in all articles, and one element of that style is an introductory paragraph of at most a few sentences, describing the subject of the article in the briefest possible terms. Furthermore, your para is much too worshipful of Amitabh. He is just an actor! This is an encyclopedia, not a film magazine, and our style should be dry and plain.
It would be much more helpful to all of us in the Indian Cinema Project (please do join -- WP:INCINE) if you turned your energies towards creating articles that should exist and don't, or expanding articles that are mere stubs at the moment. There are hundreds if not thousands of movies, songs, actors, singers, producers, etc. who could be given a more detailed treatment. Bollywood, and the other Indian regional film industries, are getting a lot more attention outside India, and Wikipedia is one of the places people come to get information. Let's help them! Zora 19:28, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ownership
Pratulka, you've been editing several weeks; I've been editing here several years. While that doesn't necessarily mean I'm right in matters of fact or opinion, it does suggest that I know something about article style. Everything you want to put in the intro to the Amitabh article is described in the body of the article; it's a repeat. It's not necessary. It's fulsome overkill. It's more than Dilip Kumar or Aamir or Shahrukh get in their intros. The opening para is NOT the opening para of an essay; it's a super-concise explanation for a reader in a hurry.
Editing is not vandalism. Don't call editors with whom you disagree vandals. Moreover, when you add comments to talk pages, you add them to the bottom, not the top.
Are you here to help create an encyclopedia or do you just want to make a shrine for Amitabh? Being part of the team means working on articles for forgotten actors and films, reverting vandalism, and working cooperatively. We are making something useful here, a resource that I believe is going to help India, and India's film industries, become more popular world-wide -- to the great financial and cultural benefit of all involved. Take a larger view and do your bit for the community. Zora 00:48, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Prose
If you think that I am "vandalizing" when I edit your prose, perhaps we could get a mediator to give us a third opinion. I think I write a much more direct and concise prose than you do -- possibly because I have spent the last 14 years writing online, in a conversational vein, rather than writing academic prose. When I was in graduate school, my academic prose read more like yours!
But when there's a difference of opinion as to whether something works or doesn't work for readers, you should be willing to accept that possibility that your style might not be appropriate for WP. You have to accept editing; you can't call it vandalism. Even I have to accept having my precious prose edited -- and there are people here who are darn good editors. They take something I've written that I think is OK and they cut out the fat and re-organize. It hurts, but I learn by it. Zora 04:13, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
