Talk:One Hundred and One Dalmatians

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Contents 1 Original aspect ratio 2 Retrofit topic-year headers 3 Expert cleanup 4 Cut & print 5 You were warned

[edit] Original aspect ratio

There is no mention in the article of the original aspect ratio/projection of the movie. The Platinum 2-Disc Edition DVD came out this week and merely mentions it is in "Full Frame (1.33:1) Ratio".. Was it originally this way or in some form of widescreen. And also of the new DVD release is it Anamorphic? (It doesn't mention it on the DVD box.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kona1611 (talk • contribs) 02:26, 5 March 2008

[edit] Retrofit topic-year headers

03-April-2008: I have grouped older topics above using headers "Topics from 2006" (etc.) to emphasize age of topics. Older topics might still apply, but using the tactic of yearly headers to note the age helps avoid rehashing old news, without archiving any ongoing issues. Also, new topics are more likely to be added to the bottom, not top. As typical, I had to move/sign a new topic "Original aspect ratio" (05Mar08) into the bottom 2008 part. -Wikid77 (talk) 15:51, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

I have undone that as it was completely inappropriate. Collectonian (talk) 16:02, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Expert cleanup

03-April-2008: I have edited for basic cleanup, such as putting quotation marks where song titles had been italicized, plus fixing grammar and commas. The section "Characters" has been tagged for re-formatting per Wikipedia-film MOS, and I moved the "expert-subject" tag into the section "Production" since the techniques could be sourced faster by film experts. The top priority for basic cleanup has been to reduce and lower those top tag-boxes which scream horrors at the reader, when the truth is that most of the article is quite good. I wish there were an easy way to prevent tag-box templates from being placed at the top of articles, since most are grandstanding vanity-boxes that rant about trivial issues. Anyway, the 2 major issues for cleanup are:

• putting reference footnotes about Production techniques; and
• reformatting section "Characters" per Wikipedia-film MOS.

If additional tag-boxes are needed, please try to limit them to particular sections, because the top vanity-boxes, screaming for attention, make Wikipedia articles look worse than they really are: when adding footnotes, I've found that Wikipedia articles have been typically 95% accurate before source footnotes were added. The real problem has been hidden vandalism, which often goes 2 months undetected in obscure areas. -Wikid77 (talk) 15:51, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

I have also undone your tag removal. Your person views against tags, which are not "vanity boxes", are irrelevant. Both of those are issues regarding the entire article, not just sections. Tags go at the top, and will remain there until the issues are actually addressed. If you don't like the look, fix the issues themselves. I left notes above detailing why I tagged as I did so there is plenty of explanation to start with. Collectonian (talk) 16:08, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

As far as vandalism, I have been watching both the 101 Dalmations page and the Bambi and Bambi II pages for those as both those movies are my favourites. (Collectonian can attest to how protective I am about 101 Dalmations at least. Hahahahahaha!) But the article can use some reworking. I know quite a lot about the movie and its assorted facts, but I don't have the article expertise or time to devote to a full rewrite. I am afraid I have to leave that to someone else. Lighthope (talk) 02:56, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cut & print

I deleted

"With the help of xerography to make the film a classic hit, it was later soften in 1977 with The Rescuers and last used in 1989 with the successful beloved animated classic, The Little Mermaid."

It's unclear to me what the point was, what the connection to "101 Dalmatians" is, & the grammar is awful. Trekphiler (talk) 16:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] You were warned

"Green FBI warnings"? Don't tell me, they've gone to a DHS threat alert coding system. I can just see it, List of movies on video by FBI warning color coding. (Wait for it.) Radar Cooper (talk 06:35, 11 June 2008 (UTC)