Talk:Amjad Khan

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[edit] Removing film entries

The entire list of Amjad's films was added by user 203.77.198.178 on 29 December 2004. I have kept the one's which have a article, and the moved the rest to here. Once these have articles of their own, the entries can be made in the Filmography section. Jay 14:10, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Isn't that incredibly shortsighted and detrimental to the article? I can see removing the wiki links from the nonexistent articles, but removing the titles entirely seems outrageous to me. The fact that they don't all have articles in no way means the films never existed, which to me is about what you're saying by removing them wholesale. Just my opinion.... ⇒ BRossow ^T/_C 14:15, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I wish there was some policy on this. Filmography is something which can run into a long list and maybe take up 80% of the article length. Film actors perform in 100s of films, but we needn't have the complete list in their article, just the noteworthy ones. But then if it was notable it would have an article on its own. If it doesn't have, no one would have had a chance to create it, which is why I've added it to the talk page rather than removing it completely. Moving the entries doesn't mean the films didn't exist, but they weren't notable enough, or the list may grow. Wikipedia is always a work in progress, which means that lists needn't be complete. Jay 14:37, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps the lists don't need to be complete as an article grows, but to take an already-complete list and intentionally remove relevant information seems, and pardon me for saying so, to border on vandalism. Should pertinent information be removed from an article simply because it takes a proportionately large amount of screen real estate? I'm disturbed by this move. Someone who comes to Wikipedia to find a list of Khan's films is most likely not going to know that s/he should look on the Talk page, of all places, to get the full list. I see this as a detrimental move, to say the least. ⇒ BRossow ^T/_C 15:25, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I've initiated a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Filmographies#All_films_or_some_.3F. Jay 19:48, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

There is a precedent for this. I've moved the list to a seperate filmography page. TheMadBaron 22:47, 7 October 2006 (UTC)