Wiki143:WikiProject Film/Film festivals task force

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Welcome to the Film festivals task force of WikiProject Film!

Scope

This task force covers film festivals, including, but not limited to, articles for individual festivals, films, directors and awards. The primary focus is for competitive feature festivals listed in the Template:Tl template:

Festival Month held Yearly article? Founded
Berlin Script error: No such module "sort". Yes 1951
Cannes Script error: No such module "sort". Yes 1946
Cairo Script error: No such module "sort". No 1976
Goa Script error: No such module "sort". No 1952
Karlovy Vary Script error: No such module "sort". No 1946
Locarno Script error: No such module "sort". No 1946
Mar del Plata Script error: No such module "sort". No 1954
Moscow Script error: No such module "sort". No 1959
Montreal Script error: No such module "sort". No 1977
San Sebastián Script error: No such module "sort". No 1953
Shanghai Script error: No such module "sort". No 1993
Tokyo Script error: No such module "sort". No 1985
Venice Script error: No such module "sort". Yes 1932
Warsaw Script error: No such module "sort". No 1985

Participants

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Film festivals task force/Participants}}

Tagging and assessment

Template:WPFILMS Task force assessment

Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Festival-task-force=yes to the Template:Tl project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Film festivals task force articles.

Templates

  • For main project templates, see the sidebar.
  • Userbox: Template:Tl

Style guidelines

Article parts

Articles about film festivals often lack reliable third-party references and often read like advertisements. Many are outdated. Yet film festival articles are useful, because the festivals themselves are notable events, with film premieres and awards that establish notability for films. The films and festivals go hand in hand. A well-crafted article about a film festival can provide linkage to films, directors and actors, and serve as a starting place for information that can be used to improve articles about films.

Standards have yet to be established as to what the festival articles should contain. Some festivals have separate articles for particular years. Some do not. Does Wikipedia need an article for every particular year of a regional short film festival? Probably not. But then articles on particular years for large international film festivals would probably be useful.

Images

Aside from the key art of the festival logo or poster, there isn't much need to add images to film festival articles that aren't freely licensed. Film festivals are great potential sources of freely licensed images of actors and filmmakers. Organizers of film festivals should be actively encouraged to freely license their images, as the image description would always link back to the festival, thereby serving as a promotional tool for the festival, but also a great resource of images of notable public figures.

External links

This is pretty basic. Beyond the official site, and an IMDb link, if it exists, what else is really needed?

Categories

To-do

Ongoing projects

  • Creation of all film festivals for each year and films screened in the main competition sections of competitive feature festivals listed in the Template:Tl template.
  • Article tagging is under way, and is far from complete. Feel free to browse through the film festival categories and lists and make sure the article's talk page is properly tagged. Wisekwai is working on Category:Film festivals in the United States, and has worked backward through alphabet to the letter T.
  • Go through Category:Film festivals and make sure each article has a class and importance rating assigned.

Category maintenance

Other tasks

  • More interested editors are needed to join this project.
  • Collect categories, resource links, and templates.
  • Expand the open task listing, particularly targeting articles that could be expanded or need clean up.
  • An infobox template, Template:Tl, exists. Does it fit the needs of this project? Have a look and discuss.
  • Create a user box.
Template:WPFILMS Announcements/Film festivals

Resources

Template:Sister project

Listings

Further reading


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