Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Films/Film festivals task force

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

WikiProject Films
General information ( v • d • e ) Main project page + talk  → Discussion archives Style guidelines talk Announcements and open tasks talk  → Articles needing attention talk  → Nominations for deletion talk  → New articles talk  → Requests talk  → Stubs talk Resources Showcase Film Portal talk Fiction noticeboard talk
Project organization Coordinators talk Participants talk Project banner talk Project category talk
Departments Assessment talk Categorization talk Contest talk Films based on books talk Future films talk Missing films talk Outreach talk Review talk Spotlight talk
Task forces General topics Film awards talk Film festivals talk Filmmaking talk Genre War films talk National and regional Argentine cinema talk Australian cinema talk Canadian cinema talk Chinese cinema talk French cinema talk Indian cinema talk Italian cinema talk Japanese cinema talk Korean cinema talk New Zealand cinema talk Persian cinema talk Southeast Asian cinema talk Spanish cinema talk
Templates banner DVD citation infobox plot cleanup stub userbox

[edit] Prestige rankings of film festivals

There are some inherent point of view problems with assigning prestige rankings to film festivals as "major" or "A-list". By their very nature, film festivals, from Cannes to a regional, four-day festival in some small town somewhere, are prestigious. Even festivals that claim they aren't prestigious (Sundance for example) are prestigious for saying they aren't prestigious.

But prestige is difficult to quantify, even with third-party sources. On Wikipedia, there is probably no way to note a film festival's prestigiousness, other than to say they are all prestigious.

The problem of assigning rankings of prestige exists in at least three works that fall under the purview of this task force:

• Film festival - Has a listing of the so-called "A-list" festivals, a classification that is highly suspect. The issue is being discussed at Talk:Film festival#A -list festivals.
• List of film festivals - I've done a lot of work on restructuring this list and the related other Lists of film festivals over the past year. With the List of film festivals, I have endeavored to summarize the world's "major" film festivals, despite my qualms about saying something is "major". I think I've done an okay job for casual readers, but it occasionally needs pruning because it serves as a POV magnet, and frankly, I'm not sure if my own POV hasn't crept in somewhere. The purpose and scope of this list needs to be more clearly defined, and I need help doing that.
• {{Film festivals}} - A puny navigation template that more or less duplicates the so-called "A-list" of the Film festival article. At one time, there was even an A-list film festival category, which was deleted. This is documented at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 July 5#Category:"A" Film Festivals. On Template talk:Film festivals, I proposed that the template be deleted as well. My comment received no replies, and I've held off on a TfD nomination, because I wonder if somehow the template might be useful. The problem is, if the template is really fair, it would include all film festivals, which would make it too cumbersome to be useful. — WiseKwai 12:57, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

I've replied at Talk:Film festival regarding some of the A-list concerns. I largely echo your sentiments - there's a huge risk of POV, but probably some utility to identifying the incontrovertably important fests. The question is how to determine this through objective criteria. Girolamo Savonarola 13:00, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA nominee: Reel Affirmations

I've authored and nominated Reel Affirmations for Good Article status. But with their huge backlog, I'm worried no one will review this article any time soon. So, if you feel up to it, I'd appreciate a review. Tips on reviewing good article candidates and how to pass or fail current candidates are available. The article is listed on the Good article nominations page under "Social sciences and society|Media|Miscellaneous Media." Thanks! - Tim1965 (talk) 15:20, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Style guidelines

I think we are in desperate need of a more detailed style guideline for film festival articles. We need to set up a list of criteria and preferably upgrade the articles on festivals featured in the Core list projects, so that they could serve as models for any future articles covered by this taskforce. Anyone willing to add his 2 cents? Timbouctou (talk) 11:54, 23 March 2008 (UTC)