Template talk:Infobox Film/doc

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[edit] Writers

It doesn't make sense that the person(s) who write the screenplay and the person(s) who wrote the source material should be lumped together under "Written by" so I added a separate "Based on" category to separate them. 209.247.22.166 (talk) 14:22, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

I've reverted your edit, since changing the template documentation doesn't alter the template in any way. You'd have to edit {{Infobox Film}} itself for any changes to have any effect. In any case, why do you think it doesn't make sense? In general, the 'based on' field would be empty for most films, and would probably be harder to notice in cases where it was relevant. The current practice is to add a qualifier after the person's name in the writer field, eg. 'John Smith (novel)' or 'John Smith jr. (play)' when applicable. If you feel there's reason to change this, discussing it at Template talk:Infobox Film would be better, since that page gets more traffic. Thanks. - Bobet (talk) 14:34, 21 November 2007 (UTC)