Talk:2007 Sundance Film Festival

Wikilinks to people

It would be much appreciated if some editors could help check the wikilinks to people and make sure the article points to the proper person. If the wikilink does NOT seem to point to the correct person, I suppose the brackets can be removed or if an editor is feeling bold they could create a new page for that person. Any help would be great. Thanks. --Pixelface 21:28, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Unencyclopedic

The majority of this article reads like a schedule. See WP:NOT#DIRECTORY. Something like this should go on an external website. There's definitely enough to write about for a 2007 Sundance Film Festival article, but as it stands it's WAY too long and we don't need to scroll through tables upon tables. --Vossanova ^o< 23:55, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

It's not a schedule. If it were a schedule it would contain airdates like this page. If you want to stretch the meaning of "directory" to fit this article, then pages like 2006 in film would have to be deleted as well (and that page *includes* release dates). Wikipedia is not paper, the content is encyclopedic, verifiable, well-sourced, and nobody is forcing you to read the entire article. If you think the article constitutes a "list", there are many lists on Wikipedia. If you're bothered by the article size, the 32K limit only applies to the main body of prose and excludes lists and tables. If you want to argue that encyclopedias should be mere overviews and not comprehensive written compendiums then that's another issue. I realize the article is long, but it's complete in listing every film at the festival. I suppose some of the shorts may be less notable, but they don't each have their own page. It's feasible to split the short films into it's own article named 2007 Sundance Film Festival Shorts, but I'm afraid that page may get deleted. --Pixelface 04:29, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I tried reformatting the Jury lists a bit and putting the film lists in hidden tags. This also makes the font a little smaller. I saved it at 2007 Sundance Film Festival/Shorter and left the original intact for now. Let me know what you think. This could also be applied to 2007 Slamdance Film Festival. --Vossanova ^o< 15:29, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Separate article

I like what you've done with the jury section and I've updated the article. I like the idea of the hidden tables, but I think I would prefer making a separate article called List of films at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. I see there's a page called List of Sundance Film Festival selections but the 2007 list may be too long. I don't really like the looks of all the tables I made, but I'm kind of new to them. I could I eliminate the YEAR and RUNTIME or even take the information out of a table altogether and list it like this:

Adrift In Manhattan

• Country of Origin: U.S.
• Director: Alfredo de Villa
• Writer: Nat Moss, Alfredo de Villa
• Cast: Heather Graham, Victor Rasuk, Dominic Chianese, William Baldwin, Elizabeth Peña, Marlene Forte, Richard Petrocelli, and Erika Michels
• Runtime: 89 minutes
• Links: sundance imdb

..although that will make the list look longer I suppose. I could also write it in sentence form like this:

Adrift In Manhattan[1] is a U.S. film competing in the Dramatic Competition which was directed by Alfredo de Villa and written by Nat Moss and Alfredo de Villa. The film stars Heather Graham, Victor Rasuk, Dominic Chianese, William Baldwin, Elizabeth Peña, Marlene Forte, Richard Petrocelli, and Erika Michels. The film is 89 minutes long. [2]

I think it would be a good idea to put the Awards section on the 2007 Sundance Film Festival page and then have a Films section with nothing but small text that says "For a full list of films appearing at the festival see the page List of films at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Then maybe later more info can be added on the more notable films. What do you think? --Pixelface 09:56, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

List of films at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival

For now I've created a separate page with all of the films on it. If it ever gets nominated for deletion I might merge the info back onto this page. --Pixelface 10:49, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Works for me.. I'll wait and see what people think about the List article. --Vossanova ^o< 14:48, 29 January 2007 (UTC)