Talk:List of film directors by name

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I really, really object to including their movies here. They can be listed on the respective article pages. RickK 06:03, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I strong, strongly second this motion. Are we going to squabble over whether Hitchcock gets Psycho listed beside his name or The Birds? Or do we give in to listing all of every director's movies and/or TV shows consuming massive amounts of time and cluttering the page to an unreadable level? I say just leave it out entirely. Seems like a lot less hastle for relatively little information loss (as this information is available by clicking on the link). -- Matty j 09:25, Jan 3, 2004 (UTC)

I think this list should not exist. There is already a category called film directors and categories are supposed to replace lists, for they are automatically generated. I'll add all these film directors to category film director (the ones that aren't) and maybe then we can discuss the end of this list... Paulo Oliveira 11:13, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I categorized some of the film directors (up to C), but started realizing that each one usually has a country categorization. In that sense, the best thing to do would be to categorize all of them according to their country. That way, category:film directors wouldn't need to exist except for sub-categories. Some of the film directors are already listed twice (once on the film director category and once again on the film director by nationality category).

I think this list should be marked as "to be removed" after all the entries are correctly categorized. Up to this point I've correctly categorized everything up to G (including G). Paulo Oliveira 11:49, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I think it is important to have a list of film directors categorized alphabetically regardless of nationality and other attributes, as it makes it much easier to locate directors solely by their name. Additionally, it is useful to have all directors listed on a single page, without having to branch out into subpages. I esspecially think it is important that we have a list that leaves room for the names of directors that do not have pages in Wikipedia, as there are many important directors that don't. I have been using this page as a reference for research over the past year and have found it to be very useful in navigating the world of film directors. I also think there is some confusion as to what this page should be. It is titled as a "List of Notable Film Directors." If we were to delete this page and leave only the film director category we would have a list of every single person designated in Wikipedia as a film director. To be fair, some of directors who have pages are not all that notable, while there are some important directors who do not have pages on wikipedia at all. I think it would be good to keep a list of notable directors separate from a more comprehensive list of all directors. I'm not saying that we need to squabble over whether or not a particular director is "notable" enough to be included on the list, it might be useful to keep a list that is separate from one that is automatically generated by Wikipedia. However I may be missing something. At the very least I think, the film director category should have one alphabetical list of all film directors regardless of nationality, and room for the addition of directors names who do not yet have pages in wikipedia. Sorry for the long and confusing post. malcom-x-mass 3:08, 12 Jun 2005 (EST)

Won't it be a lot of work? Who will decide which ones are notable? I agree with some of your ideas, but according to the Wikipedia guidelines, lists must only exist if they have a purpose other than categorization, and what we're doing here is categorizing. Maybe we could create a new "Notable directors" category, for a list is intended to be an article (initially) and only then contain a list of "stuff." Paulo Oliveira 08:50, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)