Talk:Tagline

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[edit] Merge suggested.

Note: "strapline" and "tagline" have the same meaning. IMDb.com uses "tagline". -- Pinktulip 02:54, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[Definitely separate]

Tagline chiefly refers to movies.

Strapline is chiefly British. - Ghosts&empties 10:16, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm British and I've never heard of "strapline"... - 86.142.18.200 00:14, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Examples from films.

The article currently has 7 examples from films. Suggestions on reducing it to maybe just 5, and which ones? 5 of 7 are sci-fi, 1 is romance, and 1 is a plain thriller; so getting a better balance would be nice, keeping maybe just 2 sci-fi ones: Alien and Star Trek? -- Jeandré, 2008-02-17t21:02z

Well, there's obviously a lot of choices. We should try to keep them limited to taglines that have been oft-noted elsewhere. Citing IMDb is not really appropriate in this instance, as a tagline could be culled from any of its web pages. Perhaps we can Google around and find what better choices would be first. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 23:51, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure I understand what you mean with "Citing IMDb is not really appropriate in this instance, as a tagline could be culled from any of its web pages". wp:v requires that all quotes be referenced, and the IMDd refs are to the films' tagline pages. -- Jeandré, 2008-02-19t11:57z

IMDb is a database, so it has web pages on many, many films. For films like Star Wars, Love Story, Star Trek, and The X-Files, there's no declared importance of their taglines. We need to back the fame of such taglines with reliable sources. I can personally understand the importance of all but the Love Story tagline, but we need to include citations to objectively show they are important. People in the future may not be as familiar with the fame of these taglines. So not only should we try to pick a variety of taglines from different genres, we should find the ones that have been independently noted as famous. Otherwise, we could just subjectively pick whatever tagline we like. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 13:05, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Ah, you're saying IMDb refs do no indicate notability - I agree and I've removed the 2 IMDb refs for taglines that already have notability refs (I put in the IMDB refs before I found the 2 notability refs). wp:v still requires that all quotes be referenced, so I've left the other IMDb refs there until we replace them with notability refs, or remove those taglines. -- Jeandré, 2008-02-20t11:41z

Great, that's what I was talking about. I would think that there's references to establish notability for the others, even though I'm sure to most people, it seems indisputable. :) I'll try to find some references myself, though I'm a bit busy this week. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 12:52, 20 February 2008 (UTC)