Talk:Witchfinder General (film)

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Contents 1 GA passed 2 References section 3 Cast section 4 BBFC

[edit] GA passed

Congratulations. This is a very good article on its way to becoming featured. A few requests/suggestions:

• Is there an original film poster from the British release available for the infobox?

I have been unable to locate a "regular" style UK poster. There's a "horizontal" quad UK poster reproduced in a book I have on horror films, which I've seen copied a few times online. I'll upload it and see how it looks in the infobox, but right now I suspect the DVD cover will look better. If it doesn't work in the infobox I'll probably add it somewhere else in the article.--Hal Raglan 13:38, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Added original British Quad poster to infobox.--Hal Raglan 03:03, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

• Are there any screenshots of important scenes/characters from the film?

As there is no R1 DVD available, I cannot provide screengrabs taken from the film (my computer only plays R1s). But I've seen a few murky screengrabs in various places online that might do the trick.--Hal Raglan 13:38, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Added screenshot of Ian Ogilvy and Hilary Dwyer.--Hal Raglan 03:45, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

• Articles should be started for Ronald Bassett and Witchfinder General (book); it should probably be mentioned in the intro that the film is an adaptation of this work.

You are absolutely right that the intro should mention the screenplay is based on Bassett's novel. I'll see what I can dig up on Bassett and the book. Based on the very little I know at the moment, the articles will have to be extremely short stubs.--Hal Raglan 13:38, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Created stubs for Bassett and the novel.--Hal Raglan 03:37, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

• Is it UK or U.K.? Both are used (in the version I printed out Saturday, anyway).

It should be "UK". I'll run thru the article and fix any "U.K." references.--Hal Raglan 13:38, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Done!--Hal Raglan 03:57, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Well-referenced and nice prose. Dmoon1 04:44, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look at the article. I appreciate your suggestions!--Hal Raglan 13:38, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References section

For some mysterious reason, the References Section of this article became very strange after a recent, and extremely minor, edit I made. In an attempt to correct the error, I reverted to the previous version of the article, but the References Section is still weird. I can't figure out what the problem is. For anybody with more technical wikipedia knowledge, please take a look and see if this can be easily corrected. Thanks.Hal Raglan 20:06, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Never mind. A couple of hours later, the problem seems to have magically taken care of itself.Hal Raglan 00:48, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Ouch! I just tried the same minor change again (fixing "an historical" to "a historical" in two separate sections) and the References Section has turned weird once more. Instead of 31 references, there are suddenly 52, although no additional references have been added. In the introduction, what was once Reference 1 has become Reference 32, Reference 2 is Reference 33, and so forth. Its very odd. I'll take a look at it again tomorrow to see if it magically fixes itself again.Hal Raglan 01:37, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, this seems to be a wikipedia-wide problem at this time. I've added the ?action=purge remedy in the URL which seems to have fixed the problem.Hal Raglan 02:47, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cast section

This article needs at least a cast section. Cbrown1023 13:57, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I totally disagree. Cast sections take up needed room. This article is currently a Featured Article candidate. If you look at the majority of film related Featured Articles, including the first three Halloween titles, Jaws, Night of the Living Dead, Summer of '42, Gremlins, and my own Tenebrae, you'll notice none of them have cast sections. The infobox already contains brief major cast, as well as production crew, details. If the reader wants more name-list info he/she can go to imdb.com.--Hal Raglan 21:38, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I broke down and added a Cast section. I think it adds little, if anything, to the article but after looking at a few other film FAs, including Blade Runner, V for Vendetta, and Casablanca, as well as the Star Wars films, I saw that they all contained Cast sections.--Hal Raglan 12:40, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BBFC

The article consistently refers to the BBFC as the "British Board of Film Classification", however until 1984 it retained its original name of the "British Board of Film Censors". "Classification" is anachronistic with regard to this article, and I'll change the references to "Censors". -- Arwel (talk) 23:21, 3 October 2006 (UTC)