Talk:List of international film festivals

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[edit] Copied discussions about this list's development

I don't know if you have seen the Central Asian and Southern Caucasus Film Festivals Confederation. There are two additional links there as well. They are not "international" in the global sense, but they have several country-members. I guess the same is true for European Film Awards and the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, which I added to the list, but now I think this was a mistake. Should we maybe make a list of "Regional film festivals", or does "International" refer to such multi-national cases too? Hoverfish Talk 22:36, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I think it is better to have them all at List of international film festivals for now as they are not too many. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up ®} 09:56, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

...I feel I need to add something here. Something I noticed about the List of international film festivals is that is only lists film festivals with the word "international" in the title. So the Bangkok International Film Festival is on the list, but the World Film Festival of Bangkok is not. And neither is the Cannes Film Festival. Maybe the original intent was to make it a disambiguation page? I would suggest the "international" list and the List of film festivals be merged somehow - whatever format is deemed the most useful. All film festivals, by their nature, are usually international, in that they usually show films from all over the world. — WiseKwai 16:35, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, we should add all internationals, even if the title doesn't include the word per se. But my question is about some regional festivals, like the Pan African or the European. Are they also considered internation, though they include only some countries? Hoverfish Talk 16:53, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, sure, if the region fests have films from different countries, they are still international. What do you think about merging the content of List of film festivals and List of international film festivals? — WiseKwai 17:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Further discussion moved here

I think we should merge, following proper procedures (tag, lapse of 3 days' time). Hoverfish Talk 17:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I have placed the merger tags. The suggestion at WP:MM is to wait a couple of weeks before making the move, so it can be thoroughly discussed. I am proposing that this article be merged into the List of film festivals, but that the new page would be modeled on the content here. Instead of merely providing a string of links to more links and lists, the aim would be to concisely capture the world's more famous and notable film festivals. "See also" links would be included to point to the continental lists, some of which are quite lengthy, such as Film festivals in North and Central America or Film festivals in Europe, and have many smaller, not-as-notable festivals. — WiseKwai 20:14, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

It will be like moving the content from here to there, because the original content of film festivals will be completely overlapped. The way FayssalF is tabulating with additional info, where "international" is just one attribute, the title will be more correct for the content. I hope he agrees with the merge. Hoverfish Talk 23:23, 27 March 2007 (UTC)