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[edit] Requested articles

There are a number of horror movies in the requested articles list, should that be added to the to-do list? Шизомби 21:52, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

I think so. The things I put on the to-do list were really just placeholders until the project really begins to take off. Thanks for the suggestion. Do you want to add that to the list, or should I? --Myles Long 22:13, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Among the requested articles are House II, II (The Horror Show), and IV. With horror film series, should the article for the first title in the series be expanded so that the article becomes about the whole series, and then the individual titles spun out if it grows too large? Or should they be individual articles for individual movies from the start? Also, looking through the horror movie category, a variety of names are used for articles on series. There's X series, X film series, X (series), and X (film series). Should a uniform classification be used? Шизомби 19:58, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

There are uniform ways of naming film-related articles; see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films). That doesn't cover your question about film series, though. I've asked your question on that talk page; I'll let you know if I get any replies. --Myles Long 23:36, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Incidentally, two of the longest-running horror series aren't on WP: Witchcraft (film) (thirteen movies) and Troublesome Night (nineteen movies). I've seen all but the 13th of the former but none of the latter. Шизомби 02:48, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A question for horror afficionados

I asked this question at WP:RD/H yesterday but it occurred to me that editors here would be more likely to know the answer. I was editing Rats and needed to refer to James Herbert's novels about mutant rats. Is there a particular label for the premise of a piece of horror fiction like those rats? Some horror stories have obvious "villains" (e.g. Dracula). In other horror stories (particularly psychological horror) the scary thing (or things) are not in any sense a person - e.g. the dark water in Dark Water (just going on the trailer, I haven't seen this film) and the rats in Herbert - so it seems stramge to call it (or them) "the villain(s)". I am looking for a particular term for horror, not just premise, conceit, macguffin, or whatever. Have horror critics coined one? Stroika 11:07, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

The nearest term I can think of to describe the primary threat in a horror story is the Menace. David L Rattigan 11:42, 6 May 2006 (UTC) 12:41 06 May 2006 GMT

The novel Rats uses a horror subgenre which was popular after the Second World war, one which involves monsters created via nuclear mutation LuciferMorgan 23:45, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you both. I asked Paula Guran at Dark Echo and she said there isn't a word. I think meance does nicely. Stroika 20:29, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured articles

Is there a general strategy for featured articles? Should horror articles that are very good be identified so that can be taken to featured article status, since that may require less work? Or should people just concentrate on the topics they like the most? Or should the highest-profile horror topics be worked on to get to FA status?-(e.g. movies or books that consistently make top ten lists).

Oh, also is there any quick way of determining if there are horror FA on foreign-language WPs?

Incidentally, I find it disappointing that the Lovecraft article lacks any sort of illustrations or photos. Шизомби 19:49, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Identifying good/very good articles and helping to bring them to featured status is probably the best way to go in the short term. See below; this fits right in with the "collaboration of the week/month." Of course, high-profile horror works should also be concentrated. I'd hope that the higher-profile stuff is actually better quality already, but I know that isn't always the case. So basically, my vote is that we should really do both. As for searching foreign language WPs, I'm not sure if there's a quick way to do that. That would be really cool, though. --Myles Long 23:29, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Section for delisted Good Articles? - should there be one on the project page, or here on the discussion page? The Blair Witch Project was recently delisted, not sure what others there might have been, or what tools there are to discover what others there have been. Шизомби 17:10, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Improvement of the week/month"

What do you think about having an "improvement of the week/month candidate"? Over at Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week they decide on one article in a concenus process; people nominate different articles for translation, once concensus is achieved, all the participants pile on and in no time a large Spanish language article is translated into English. We could have a similar process for an improvement drive. Come to a concensus on a horror film to be improved and we all work on improving it for a time. Seems to me a good way to get many articles to good/featured status in a collaborative atmosphere. --Fuhghettaboutit 20:05, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

I think that's a fantastic idea. Month is probably better than week, imo, but I'm down for either one. --Myles Long 23:24, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Great. I agree that week is probably unrealistic, and anyway the length of time should not be a hard and fast rule. I'm going to take a stab at setting up a subpage. Please feel free to edit ruthlessly, move etc.--Fuhghettaboutit 02:41, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Page has been created: Wikipedia:Horror collaboration of the month.--Fuhghettaboutit 06:04, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
This is really cool. Thanks for setting that up. We need to start nominating articles... --Myles Long 18:29, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Horror - the dab page

Horror is a disambiguation page, so careful when you are linking. Does this WikiProject deal with the emotion, I'm not sure? Anyway, currently Horror fiction covers the the genre. Not sure if there should be a Horror (genre) (which is currently a redirect) - for example if there is a "horror" video game, the link would point to Horror fiction. Not really a question here, just something to mull over.--Commander Keane 23:20, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

This project primarily relates to horror fiction and horror film, though as you point out, video games and such definitely relate to horror fiction. The emotion itself is probably outside the scope of this project, except for the fact that it is the reason that the genres are so named. --Myles Long 23:23, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] James Herbert's Books - Could Someone Start Writing Articles for them (A Request)

Hi I'm a horror fan and am wondering if some of the kind editors could write articles for the works of James Herbert. He's quite established in the UK, and is even talked about in 'Danse Macabre', Stephen King's non-fiction book of the horror genre in general. There anyone willing to write them? LuciferMorgan 23:45, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Horror notable films

We could start a list of 'Missing/Incomplete notable horror films', something like Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable films. The list should contain horror films which have some kind of reference indicating notability - critical acclaim, top grossing, cult following (e.g. they appear on some '100 best horror movies' type of list) and the tasks would be:

  • eliminate red links by creating articles;
  • fill in existing articles, making sure they have at least an infobox, an image (if possible) and a short synopsis.

If you like the idea, please propose sources for building a list. One source would be IMDb 50 Top Rated Horror Films. AdamSmithee 19:28, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

That sounds pretty reasonable. The IMDb top horror list is pretty stable, though the worst-rated one has a fairly high turnover rate. Possibly we'd want a workpage within the project space to list them all on, and could have some sort of key to indicate which movies are on which lists (since many will likely be on more than one). The same could possibly be done for novels and short stories. (E.g. Horror: The 100 Best Books and Horror: Another 100 Best Books) Other movie sources could possibly include Saturn_Award_for_Best_Horror_Film, International Horror Guild award http://www.ihgonline.org/prevrec.html http://www.bravotv.com/The_100_Scariest_Movie_Moments/ or Fangoria's 101 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen : A Celebration of the World's Most Unheralded Fright Flicks Шизомби 21:08, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

I compiled a list of 400+ horror films at User:AdamSmithee/Notable horror films. If anyone has ideas for other lists/movies or for guidelines, please make your sugestions. If noone is against or has other sugestions, I intend to move it as a subpage to the Wikiproject. AdamSmithee 19:17, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Nice job! I added some akas and redirects, but the list will have to be gone through more thoroughly for those. Шизомби 22:20, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

As after 24h there are no further comments, I'll move it as a subpage of the Wikiproject AdamSmithee 22:32, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

If anyone wishes to contribute, you can find the list under Wikipedia:WikiProject Horror/Notable horror films AdamSmithee 22:40, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anthology film

Should this article be expanded to have a section about horror anthology films? It's a popular type of horror film and there are a number of notable and successful ones. Right now it just gets a mention. Шизомби 22:39, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mondo film

Should this subgenre be part of this project? Not all mondo films are horror, but a lot of them are. Шизомби 06:36, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

My feelings are that exploitation genres only tangentially linked to horror should not be the subject of organized attention from the Horror Project. I understand that mondo movies may induce horror, and there's certainly an overlap in the fanbase, but they probably fall outside the range of Project focus. Chris Stangl 22:17, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Confusion about the series Zombie 2

After asking this on the Zombie 2 talk page without getting an answer, hopefully the general horror project can help. I am very confused about the Zombie 2 series from its article and from IMDb. Could someone please clarify this for me? The following is the order of the Zombie 2 series films with the alternate titles from IMDb. One list in the article gives only 3 in the series, another gives 4, and yet others give 5. Which is right, or are they all right, and IMDb missed a film?
-- Lady Aleena talk/contribs 13:49, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Zombi 2 at the Internet Movie Database (1979)
    • Island of the Flesh-Eaters
    • Island of the Living Dead
    • Ultimi zombi, Gli
    • Zombie (USA)
    • Zombie 2: The Dead Are Among Us
    • Zombie Flesh-Eaters (UK)
  • Virus at the Internet Movie Database (1980/I)
    • Cannibal Virus
    • Hell of the Living Dead
    • Inferno dei morti-viventi
    • Night of the Zombies (USA)
    • Zombi 4 (USA) (pre-release title)
    • Zombi 5: Ultimate Nightmare (Italy)
    • Zombie Creeping Flesh
    • Zombie Inferno
    • Zombie of the Savanna
  • After Death at the Internet Movie Database (1988)
    • Oltre la morte (Italy)
    • Zombie 4: After Death
    • Zombie Flesh Eater 3 (UK)
    • Zombie Flesh Eaters 3 (UK) (DVD title)
  • Zombi 3 at the Internet Movie Database (1988)
    • The Beyond (DVD title)
    • Zombie Flesh Eaters 2 (UK) (video title)
I'm not sure what you're asking. None of the series are actually real, they're just AKAs that distributors gave them to make them appear like a series. According to IMDb, there's two movies called Zombie 2, five movies called Zombie 3, three movies called Zombie 4, three movies called Zombie 5, and one movie called Zombie 6. Some use Zombi instead of Zombie. Шизомби 14:12, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
It does raise a question whether there's a common term applied to fake series such as the Zombie one. Zombie Flesh Eaters, Demons/Demoni, La Casa, Ghosthouse are some others. Шизомби 14:30, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Here is what I want to know..

  • Is this a true series?
  • What films are in the series?
    • What would their article names be?

Any help is appreciated.
-- Lady Aleena talk/contribs 10:52, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Are your questions relating to the so-called Italian, British, and/or American series? I'm fairly sure none of them are really official. In a real series I suppose the makers of the sequels have the legal right to the title and/or characters. There's no continuity of characters with these movies, so the question is whether there's a right the the title I guess, and I'm thinking that was either ignored, or perhaps the title could not be copyrighted so in effect anyone could title their movie Zombie (x) if they wanted to. What would be more useful to find out for the purpose of the article is who specifically gave the movies those names; I think it was the distributor rather than the filmmakers, but am not sure and in either case the specific company or people who named it would be nice to find out. As to what the names of the articles should be, I'm not sure. The naming conventions for films doesn't get into AKAs and how to pick among them for the main title. The general naming conventions states "article naming should give priority to what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize, with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature." I think either the title used by the IMDb could be used, or the title of whatever DVD is currently most available in English-speaking regions. Шизомби 14:29, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Basically what you are saying is that this is not a series at all, just a bunch of films that happen to be grouped together because they contain zombies, right?
-- Lady Aleena talk/contribs 03:32, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
I guess that's what it boils down to, although I'm not sure all of them even have zombies! I would guess it's a matter of distributors thinking the movie would make more money if it's thought of a sequel to a successful movie. I'll take a look at some of my books and see if any of them have commented on the so-called zombie series. Шизомби 04:18, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you...I wouldn't be so concerned about it, but I am working on the Lists of film series. Most series are cut and dry, but this one is giving me a headache. Almost all of the Living Dead series are giving me fits, since the first Living Dead film went public domain. ACK!
-- Lady Aleena talk/contribs 04:29, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
You might like http://www.returnofthelivingdead4and5.com/actors/credits/gene.htm I looked at your lists of film series - I don't know if I would consider the Muppets to all be a series, or the Moment of Truth, to mention a couple. I'll post more about the Zombie series on the Zombi 2 talk page, just so this discussion doesn't get too long (it's pretty long already). Шизомби 04:44, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
It's not a trilogy, pentalogy, umptalogy, whatever. The films are not all connected. In some cases, they were filmed under other names, then lumped together under the Zombi umbrella. Wryspy 19:29, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Buffy plea

As a non-contibutor, I would just like to make the formal request that Buffy The Vampire Slayer not be included as "horror" in this Wiki. It's definitely not horror. Not even close. Just because something has a monster in it doesn't mean it's automatically horror. It does a disservice to horror fans to lump a lukewarm teen-angst comedy in with true horror.

There is Category:Comedy horror films.
-- Lady Aleena talk/contribs 18:02, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
I agree. I’m sure there are a few more films in horror category that would be more suited to Comedy Horror. I'll keep an eye out for them. ~ CBGB/OMFUG 10:00, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Did you see the "Hush" episode? Buffy has plenty of horror in it. Doczilla 20:07, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] H. P. Lovecraft

The featured article about horror writer H. P. Lovecraft is up for major review and could potentially be delisted as a featured article if the concerns posted are not address. Dmoon1 14:33, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

H. P. Lovecraft is no longer featured. Please update the assessment template if necessary. Joelito (talk) 16:17, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Categorisation work

Hi. I've done some refactoring work on your Project's categories and templates today (along with several other WikiProjects). I'm confident you'll find that the new organisation a big improvement. For more information and a rationale please see what I've written at Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best_practices#Categorisation or drop me a line on my talk page.

If you're not yet assessing articles for Wikipedia 1.0 and using Mathbot, you might also find Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index of subjects and it's talk page very useful. --kingboyk 17:21, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Randall Flagg help

A user is attempting to remove an image of the character's death from the article because he didn't read (or didn't finish reading) the book, and it got spoiled for him.

Can anyone help with this? --CyberGhostface 21:36, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I think its too bad for that user. People should not read articles about books and movies and their characters if they don't really want to know what happens to them. Dmoon1 21:44, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
I agree. Just make sure that there is a spoiler warning on the article, and in future, that user needs to learn to not read articles with a spoiler warning. --Elizabennet 00:40, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyediting for horror

I think there should be a way (through this page) to get a list of the horror wikipages that need copyediting (as there is of horror stubs). However, I have no idea how to do this. Anyone know? I'm thinking there must be a way for it to search for horror and then for needing copyedit. Or vice-versa. Any thoughts?

[edit] Cthulhu Mythos

For people interested in improving the Cthulhu Mythos-related articles, I've begun a discussion of what I see as the major issues on Category talk:Cthulhu Mythos. Nareek 12:05, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A site that might be of use

Apparently there is a site called Cinemorgue that tracks (and has pictures of) the deaths of people in film (organized by the actor/actress portraying them). It seems to list well-known and one-time actors alike. Perhaps it could be used (maybe with a template?) on the bottom of horror/slasher film articles to list those who have died in the film for a "colorful" addition to articles? 24.126.199.129 08:59, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Witchfinder General

I put Witchfinder General up for peer review on August 20, but so far, after ten days, nobody has offered any suggestions as to how the article could be improved. Two kind souls made some minor typo corrections, but other than that there's been nothing. I know the article is far from perfect, but I love this movie and I would really like to make an attempt to bring this to Featured Article status if possible. Please take a look and see if you can help make the article better. Thanks!Hal Raglan 04:16, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey, folks. Some helpful suggestions were made during the Peer Review process and a couple of people jumped in and did some minor copy editing of the article. I appreciate everyone's assistance in attempting to improve the article. I have now self-nominated Witchfinder as a Featured Article candidate. I am soliciting anyone's interest in expressing Support or Opposition to the article, because, to date, absolutely nobody at all has bothered to state an opinion. Please take a look and, if you think it meets the FA criteria, vote accordingly. If not, let me know what can be done to bring it up to that standard. Or make any edits yourselves that you think are needed. Thanks!--Hal Raglan 16:37, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A little Vampire article idea I had...

I've been poking my nose about the project and most pages don't look that active so I'm posting this idea here. I figured this would be the most likely place to find keen editors on this topic.

I came up with the idea a while back of creating a table of "Comparison of depictions of vampires in film and literature". The table would be made up of ticks and crosses with TV Series/Films/Books down the left and Vampire characteristics across the top. It would be in the style of other compartive tables such as

So for example, something like Buffy the Vampire Slayer would have "Turn to dust when staked" ticked but Bram Stoker's Dracula would have a cross there (if memory serves me).

If anyone would be interested in collaborating with me in getting this started off, I'd be very keen to hear. It could be a lot of fun, I think.

In fact, I'll start a draft in my userspace. User:Phorque/Comparison of depictions of vampires in film and literature

- Phorque 19:59, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

WP:OR says this is not a good idea AdamSmithee 07:13, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Look at things like Comparison of media players, it is merely a tabled form of already existing data, so I fail to see how that is original research. My table is doing essentially the same thing, taking already existing data from various media where vampires are depicted and putting it into a table. I'm not drawing any conclusions from the data, or making any claims for that matter. - Phorque 09:31, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Yes, you are right, I'm sorry - doesn't fall under WP:OR if it sticks to a characteristics inventory and so it should be ok. However, please pay attention to the way you are building it as it is also somewhat borderline WP:CRUFT (though I personally wouldn't necessarily criticize something only based on that :-))? AdamSmithee 11:59, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unassessed articles, a big task

Take a look at all the articles here: Category:Unassessed horror articles. It seems to be a big task, who wants to help? I've started on it, but I current go through other unassessed articles as well, so I could use the help. RobJ1981 20:02, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

I've started to work my way through the list. It's worth noting I think that a significant number of the articles I've looked at so far have already been assessed for other wikiprojects, particularly films. It's just that the assessment class has not been inserted into the horror banner as well as the other one. Silverthorn 15:07, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
I've been going through the articles also. I added two new Category's that were already accesible from the template but did not exist, |class=Template and |class=Cat. I will also be updating the class on Horror articles through WikiProject Films. Cbrown1023 21:04, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tagging talk pages and assessing articles

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[edit] Assessment of Top Importance Novels

The Novels Wikiproject is currently discussing what should be included in the list of top-important novels. As this could well include overlap with the horror genre, you may wish to contribute to the discussion which can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Novels/Assessment/Top-important Silverthorn 09:06, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Body horror article

The body horror article which is listed as part of the project currently has no sources and references. I think it's original research myself as I've never come across the term. There needs to be references added to it. 23skidoo 01:21, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

I've heard the term numerous times, but there's still no doubt that the article needs citations. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea

[edit] Project Directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:

  • User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory 2,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Philosophy and religion Directory,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Sports Directory,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory,
  • User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory/United States, (note: This page will be retitled to more accurately reflect its contents)
  • User:Badbilltucker/History and society directory, and
  • User:Badbilltucker/Science directory

and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 21:04, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now put the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 23:49, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question at the Reference Desk for you

Please see Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous#British Horror Film of the 1930s or 1940s. Thanks. howcheng {chat} 18:46, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Movie screencaps

I haven't uploaded images before... I could use a little help understanding what is required in the case of movie screenshots. I see that under Upload file there's a dropdown menu where "Movie screenshot" can be selected, but what should go in the Destination filename and Summary fields? Шизомби 15:29, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

It's pretty simple- once you get to that upload file page, you select the name of the screenshot that you want to upload in the "Browse..." window. Under destination filename, you put what you want the uploaded file to be called (For example, "Terminator Screenshot"). Under summary, you should put a description of the picture (short, like, screenshot from the film Terminator) and the fair use rationale (fair use in article on film). There are tags for the fair use things, if you click on the link in "tags" it'll take you to a list. Licensing, select whichever is applicable (Movie screenshot, DVD cover, etc). Hope that helps! -Elizabennet 23:23, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ghost films category?

I've just created a Category for "Ghost films" (it falls under "films by topic" under "films"). Please add cat tags where necessary!  :) I'm also wondering if we should have a category for Bravo's 100 scariest movie moments, and other similar lists. Something like: "Category:Bravo's scariest movie moments" to tag movies that fall into that category (similar to the Saturn awards, etc). I don't have a strong opinion on this, it just might build up the database and be another way to reorganize things. Anyway, please give your opinion on these things; I think I'm going to go ahead and make the Ghost films category. -Elizabennet

[edit] Pan's Labyrinth

While this film has dark subject material, and at least one monster, I don't know if it qualifies as a horror film per se. It's a dark fantasy more than anything else. exolon 00:42, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Then remove the tag! Be bold! but I removed it, so you can't; sorry :) Cbrown1023 01:46, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Why such squeamishness about the term "horror"? Was not Pan's Labyrinth featured on the covers of both Fangoria and Rue Morgue? 169.226.112.164 20:40, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Amityville template

I created a template at {{Amityville series}} for movies in the Amityville horror series (based on the {{Cube Series}} template), and added it to the appropriate film articles. I started a stub about the series at Amityville Horror saga: I'm not familiar with the majority of the films in the series, and would appreciate help on expanding said stub. -Elizabennet 23:21, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Eraserhead

I have added this film to the horror project. It is (correctly) listed as being of high importance, and any help in elevating it beyond start class would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Desdinova 20:56, 21 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Fictional werewolves category vs. WikiProject Dogs

hi. there's a conflict between the above -- which i discovered when a dog project banner appeared on the talk:Gabriel Van Helsing page of the Gabriel Van Helsing article. can you do anything to take the fictional werewolves category out of Category:Canines? for a summary please see: [1] thanks, Denstat 19:00, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

The simplest thing is just to be bold and remove the banners, unless you think that WP:Dogs has something to offer the Van Helsing page. TheronJ 19:19, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
oh, i did :). the character's minor werewolf aspect does not warrant a Dog banner. i also contacted the banner guy who's working on WikiProject Dogs (Badbilltucker, who is getting flak from other editors working on other fictional werewolf-related articles. i'm raising the issue because the 'simplest' thing doesn't seem to solve the problem, and re-jigging the categorization problem seems as if it would cut out future misunderstandings. -- Denstat 19:44, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
There's no reason for tagging everything in Canines as a Wikiproject:Dogs page. This comes up every so often when someone tags everyone in "Columbia Univeristy Alumni" as a part of "Wikiproject:New York" or whatever. The solution isn't to take Columbia University out of the New York category, it's to tag your project pages with some discretion. On the other hand, if anyone thinks that it's not factually accurate that "fictional werewolves" are "canines," just separate the categories, but don't do it to make project tagging easier. TheronJ 19:52, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
thanks for your responses. i thought the members running the individual wikiprojects had more authority on changing categories than individual editors, which is why i came here to ask project members about making the change. guess i'll just have to become bolder. :) -- Denstat 19:24, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Dracula Article

I've begun an article on the new BBC adapation of Dracula titled Dracula (BBC). This seemed the right place to ask folks to take a look at it and offer feedback, if they are so inclined. Thanks in advance. Zahir13 17:58, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:03, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page Request that kinda sorta involves the film The Hitcher

There might be confusion with this request. See Talk:The Hitchers (band from Limerick). But then I could be crazy. But with only a few votes, more people should chim in. Whatever way they think. Peace out. 205.157.110.11 04:05, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Phenomena (film)

I have made substantial additions to the page. --Scottandrewhutchins 23:56, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request re-evaluation of Time Walker

The Time Walker article has been improved since Silverthorn's initial evaluation of the article as "stub class" (which, even at the time she posted the evaluation, was unwarranted and inaccurate).

Sullenspice 17:42, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

This article needs to be expanded beyond plot summary to incorporate production information and reception information. Plot summary alone is not acceptable. Dmoon1 18:59, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
If that's the case, then the people who are evaluating the films need to be a bit more consistent. I've seen film articles of lower quality than Time Walker that are graded as "start class". Sullenspice 20:32, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
The ratings are subjective, as explained here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Assessment. It is also explained here how the process works and ratings can be re-reviewed or re-assessed. Personally, I wouldn't worry too much about the rating itself and would concentrate on improving the parts of this article which are lacking. Dmoon1 20:41, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:Films Infobox Backlog

If you're interested in helping add infoboxes to film articles, you can visit here or adopt a letter here. We currently have about 900 articles (with a couple hundred of these being horror films) that don't have infoboxes and we have so far completed about 200 in the last few weeks. We would appreciate any assistance in eradicating the requests. There are instructions and an example on the template's page and if you need any help or have any questions ask one of the members who are currently working on the infoboxes or at the project's talk page. Thanks, and keep up the good work! --Nehrams2020 04:49, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured topic removal candidates/Halloween film series

Much like old Featured articles tend to be demoted as criteria and expectations evolve, this series will most likely lose this status. It might be kept if it was refactored as "Halloween original trilogy", and if the main article was improved, though.Circeus 18:34, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Doom 3

Hello, I added Doom 3 to the list a few hours ago but it seems that some one deleted it who ever did it please answer why you did cause It has the Horror project label in its talk page. --Efrit 12:55, Feb 10th

[edit] The Last Wave

Is it fair to say that The Last Wave is not predominantly a horror film? It has some occasional elements of horror if viewed from a certain angle, but I would not consider it a horror film as such. I switched its stub-sorting from horror to thriller. Can someone please reconsider about it belonging to this project's scope? Hoverfish Talk 17:04, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

The same goes for Below (film) (see talk page). The thing is our editors follow imdb genre, which is not always very precise and disregard amg, which often has it by far better. I am not sure what your project's aims or criteria are, as far as inclusion, but it seems some members should run through your list with a critical eye and filter out whatever doesn't fit primarily to the "horror" genre. Hoverfish Talk 20:08, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Horror Journal Link

Hi,

I'm editor of a free on-line journal The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies.[2]I think it would be quite suitable as a link on a couple of different Wikipedia articles. I'd be greatful if you could have a look at it and see what you think. It's a very eclectic mix of articles/essays, some Irish related some not. Also I'd appreciate if you could advise me whether it would be a good idea to link on to specific author's/film's Wikipedia pages that we have an extensive articles on... for example, we've a 7,000 word essays on The Company of Wolves, the comic book Preacher, Lovecraft and Le Fanu and so on. The journal follows very high standards and I think it would be a valuable resource in a number of areas. Let me know what you think.

On another matter, I see there is only a bio stub for the horror actress Evelyn Ankers, I'd be happy to expand this. Is that ok?IrishGothicJournal 22:09, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Wolf Man

I was wondering if there was someone that could help me out with The Wolf Man and Lon Chaney, Jr. articles. I am a big fan of old-school horror films, so I thought I could help out a lot with this WikiProject. I'm about to add my name to the long list of fellow horror-fans in a bit. Drop me a line on my Talk Page if you have any tips on how I can improve these articles. Michael Kennedy III 22:30, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] by-language would be great

I often want to read about the Horror films of the Spanish speaking world, or the French speaking world, but I find it hard to find the relevent articles. It would be great if there were categories for French-language-horrors, Spanish-language-horrors, etc. These would be subcategories of Horrors-by-language. Having by-country would be second best. Just an idea. Gronky 12:29, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] World War Z

The article needs massive improvements and would prolly do with segments of it being split off to World War Z (fictional event) or something to that effect. I implore anyone here to contribute what they can to help out. DrWho42 02:40, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category: Sadistic horror films

I created a cat for the sort of new popular trend of torture-based horror films that have been spinning around lately titled *Category: Sadistic horror films however, it's apparently not important enough and will be deleted. Could anyone in this project help make comments? :) Andrzejbanas 15:39, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

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