Wikipedia:WikiProject Films

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WikiProject Films is a WikiProject dedicated to building a comprehensive and detailed guide to films on Wikipedia.

This WikiProject aims to define a standard of consistency for articles about films and film characters (it also includes categories and templates about films). It also aims to encourage and provide the structure for enhancing the writing of high qualilty articles on all manner of different films. This project does not include articles about actors, directors, and filmmakers (those are in the scope of WikiProject Biography and some possible future projects).

Contents 1 Announcements 1.1 Useful tags 2 Goals 3 Activities in Progress 3.1 General 3.2 Images 3.3 Requests 3.4 Article grading 3.5 List of films without article 3.6 Collaboration 3.7 Other tasks 4 Related WikiProjects 5 Participants 6 See also 6.1 Class-related

[edit] Announcements

The November 2006 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

[edit] Useful tags

• If you find, create, or contribute to a film article, please paste {{FilmsWikiProject}} or {{Film}} and add the page to the List of films.
• If you find a stub article that has not yet been marked as a stub, add {{film-stub}} to the bottom of the article, or browse Cat:Film stubs for sub-cats such as {{comedy-film-stub}}, {{action-film-stub}}, and other sub-stubs by subject or country. The article will then automatically be included in the film stubs category, where you can find plenty of stub articles to expand if you are itching to do something.

[edit] Goals

• To standardize the film articles in Wikipedia.
• To improve Wikipedia coverage of films by adding, expanding and improving film articles
• To serve as a central point of discussion for issues related to Wikipedia film articles

[edit] Activities in Progress

[edit] General

• Edit any film article: Check out the style guide or just dive right in
• Contribute to the discussion on the talk page
• Add the {{Film}} tag to the talk page of any article that does not have it.
• Categorise the articles at Category:Uncategorised films.

[edit] Images

If you find an article without an image, please list it at Requested pictures or find a poster/cover of the film in question and license it appropriately and copy/paste the source.

[edit] Requests

Please respond to a request for a film articles or create an article from the List of notable films, as part of the Missing encyclopedic articles WikiProject.

[edit] Article grading

Main article: /Assessment

We are rating articles for quality using the Film articles by quality scale (based on this) and for importance using the Release Version Criteria scale. Once articles are rated for either they will show up on Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Film articles by quality. To rate an article, add the following next to the {{Film}} or {{FilmsWikiProject}} tag:

|class=[X]|importance=[Y]

where:

• [X] = Stub, Start, B, A, GA, or Future (also NA, Disambig, Cat, or Template)
• [Y] = Low, Mid, High, or Top

The task is quite tedious, so music and frequent breaks are recommended. If you feel like helping leave your name next to the group you are willing to work on (grading is not limited to those whose names are here, anyone can edit using the Category:Unassessed film articles but it is appreciated that you post your user name here).

Thanks to the following for helping out assess the many, many articles (in alphabetical order): AdamSmithee, Andman8, Cbrown1023, Shane ^{(talk/contrib)}, Hondo11008, Nehrams2020, RobJ1981, Supernumerary, and Thefourdotelipsis.

Done!

The following users are assessing articles through different means, by Cat:Unassessed film articles or when adding them to the Lists of films

• User:Nehrams2020
• User:Cbrown1023
• User:RobJ1981
• User:Hondo11008
• Shane ^{(talk/contrib)}

See also: Category:Unassessed film articles

[edit] List of films without article

This is to announce that a major compilation of lists of missing films by year and country is underway in Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/List of films without article. It is meant for maintenance work, to provide a basis from which to expand film on wikipedia and presentable as the "adoption center" for users in general. If any of the films of this list are deemed as "needed articles", they can be copied to such a list or branded with the appropriate template. One way or the other, this will become a very useful tool in the film project.

See also Category:WikiProject Missing Film articles. Any help in compiling missing notable films by country is more than appreciated!!!

The following users are involved in compiling (feel free to add your name to the list):

1. User:Ernst Stavro Blofeld
2. User:Hoverfish

[edit] Collaboration

[edit] Other tasks

[edit] Related WikiProjects

Parent:

• WikiProject Entertainment

Descendants:

• WikiProject American Animation
• WikiProject Indian cinema
• WikiProject Iranian cinema
• Film based on books categorization project
• WikiProject Horror
• WikiProject Academy Awards

Similar:

• WikiProject Albums
• WikiProject Filmmaking
• WikiProject Media
• WikiProject Novels
• WikiProject Theatre
• WikiProject Opera
• WikiProject Star Wars
• WikiProject Television
• Wikipedia:Filmographies and Discographies

Future Projects:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Actors
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Filmmakers

[edit] Participants

If you want to join the Project, or if you simply want to sign the guestbook, head on over to our Participants page.

This user is a member of WikiProject Films.

To show your support for the Project, you can add this template to your user page if you want to, by typing {{User WikiProject Films}}.

You can also add Category:Wikipedians interested in film to your userpage.

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Templates seems to have been "lost" after creation. Good place for more film templates.
• Category:Film templates
• Template:Infobox Film
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Film and TV - current film related articles nominated for deletion.
• Category:Film articles by quality

[edit] Class-related