Talk:The Rocky Horror Picture Show cult following

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Contents 1 A seperate page lets us expand a little further 2 2 comments 3 Catagories 4 Citation tags. Too many? or Too much information 5 Keep external links to notable links only

[edit] A seperate page lets us expand a little further

This way we can clean up the original page and expand on this subject.

[edit] 2 comments

First, generally we don't use abbreviations in pagenames, see WP:NAME, so renaming this might be in order.

Second, there seems to be a whole slew of free images on Flickr [1], I think with the current article length one of those would be appropriate to include in this article perhaps. --W.marsh 12:33, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for both comments. Otto4711 has renamed the page. (thankyou Ottoa, although I did return the catagories) I was unaware of Flicker. I will get some images as soon as possible.--Amadscientist 03:37, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

I looked into the flickr idea, however i hesitate to use any of them as they are without context. No information given so no way to know who, what, where, when and why.

What we need is an image of Sal Piro. I did find a few images of the NYC cast as well as images from the Adminastrator of the Official Fan Club, but these are pretty poor quality and again without context there is no real reason to post any of them.

The only pic I found was from the Sacramento cast from 1985 but it is a studio shot and I'm not sure it was entered correctly into that site.--Amadscientist 01:52, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

I posted a relatively recent photo of Sal Piro that I took at the Tucson Con in October 2006. There needs to be some information added to the article on how the fan club came about and who Sal Piro is, in order for the photo to have any relevance. Riff Raff 16:05, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Catagories

I am keeping the catogories as there apeared on the original Rocky Horror Picture show page as the following it's self is liked to all of them. Just deleting them does not do justice to this article. I have also removed citation tags as vandlism as citations are being added. If you have input add it. If you have a source add it. But this article is not making false claims. Adding those tags instead of creating a source yourself or adding to the discussion page first is not kosher.

This fan base doesn't just go see the film, they recreate it. Keeping many of the same catagories is correct.--Amadscientist 02:28, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Since this page deals with the fan culture and not the film itself, I think the Category: X film type categories should be removed. As long as this page is linked from the main Rocky Horror site that will allow people to find this page easily without over categorizing. Great work on the page, by the way. --Gimme danger 06:43, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Ok, that makes far too much sense not to heed. I shall make the changes. --Amadscientist 09:22, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citation tags. Too many? or Too much information

I noticed that the tag "Citation needed" is placed on a lot of the articles statements. Some in places that are not really questionable information that needs verification. One example is this line;

Many casts require auditions to join in which a prospective member must show that he or she can perform the movie from memory without looking at the screen.[citation needed]

Since I'm not sure that a reference source exists for this, should the information be removed or is a reference neccesary for it. I tseems to me this is something that is kind of obviouse. Perhaps rewording it would be better.

[edit] Keep external links to notable links only

Unfortunatly, we cannot add links to every cast page. The ones that are there are for historical context and have been allowed to stand for that reason. If we keep trying to add more Wikipedia may delete all of them. --Amadscientist 05:42, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

88.217.3.67 added a wonderful link! Take a look! It's a big surprise to see a theatre go to such extremes!--Amadscientist 07:10, 28 June 2007 (UTC)