User:Jeremy Butler

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I've taught film and television studies in the Telecommunication and Film Department at the University of Alabama since 1980 and been a visiting professor at the University of Arizona. I've been involved with college and Public radio since 1972 and currently host "All Things Acoustic" on Alabama Public Radio.

I'm the author of Television: Critical Methods and Applications (Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006) and the editor of Star Texts: Image and Performance in Film and Television (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991).

My previous encyclopedia-writing experience was for the Encyclopedia of Television.

Contents 1 Disambiguation 2 Internet Projects 3 Things to Remember When Wikiing 3.1 Shortcuts 3.2 Interwiki 3.3 Style guides 3.3.1 Vanity 3.3.2 Writing style 3.3.3 Policies 3.3.4 Things to avoid 3.3.5 External links policy 3.4 Arbitration 3.5 Templates 3.5.1 Needs an expert 3.5.2 Needs references 3.5.3 Clean-up 3.5.4 Neutral PoV 3.5.5 Too much trivia 3.5.6 Film stub 3.5.7 Television stub 3.5.8 Magazine & Journal stub 3.5.9 Generic stub 3.5.10 Spoilers 3.5.11 IMDb links 3.5.12 Infobox Film 3.5.13 Television series infobox 3.6 Talk page header 3.7 Other Mark-Up 3.7.1 Categories 3.7.2 Common abbreviations 3.7.3 Citing references 3.7.4 Footnotes 3.7.4.1 New style, based on cite.php extension 3.7.4.2 Old style 3.7.5 Redirect 3.7.6 Merge 3.7.7 Revert 3.7.8 Candidates for speedy deletion 3.7.9 Vandalism warning templates 3.7.10 To insert an image in an article: 3.8 Images and Fair Use 3.8.1 Fair use tag to insert in image description: 3.8.2 Film screenshot tag to insert in image description: 3.8.3 TV screenshot tag to insert in image description: 3.8.4 Publicity photo tag to insert in image description: 3.8.5 Promo-image tag to insert in image description: 3.8.6 Other stuff to add to Image Description page 3.8.7 "Clearing" below an image with CSS 4 Ongoing projects

[edit] Disambiguation

I am not Jeremy Edward Butler (my father) or Jeremy Ian Galbraith Butler (my son). And I am not most of the Jeremy Butlers to turn up in a Google search.

[edit] Internet Projects

• ScreenSite — a resource for film/TV students and teachers

• TVCrit.com — the companion Website for the book, Television: Critical Methods and Applications

• My official homepage

• The TCF Department

• The Internet Folk Radio List — a directory of hundreds of radio programs that feature folk, acoustic, singer-songwriter, and international music.

• I've been participating in Wikipedia since 17:36, 23 March 2005 — starting out as JButler. I didn't like that account name, because of its funky punctuation (i.e., Jbutler and jbutler don't equal JButler on Wikipedia). When I realized you could create an account name with a space in it, I switched to Jeremy Butler (27 August 2005). I'm mostly interested in articles dealing with folk music and film and television studies.

[edit] Things to Remember When Wikiing

Stuff I constantly have to look up.

[edit] Shortcuts

Wikipedia:Shortcuts

[edit] Interwiki

For Interwiki links, use shortcuts based on a prefix. E.g., the prefix Wiktionary may be used thus:

• [[Wiktionary:cinematography]] results in Wiktionary:cinematography
• [[Wiktionary:cinematography | cinematography]] results in cinematography

Here's a few other prefixes and the URL they call up:

• Google = http://www.google.com/search?q=$1
• GoogleGroups = http://groups.google.com/groups?q=$1
• WikiPedia = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1
• Wiktionary = http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/$1
• Wikiquote = http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/$1

[edit] Style guides

[edit] Vanity

Wikipedia:Vanity guidelines

Shortcuts: WP:VAIN or WP:VANITY

[edit] Writing style

Wikipedia:Manual of Style

[edit] Policies

Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines

[edit] Things to avoid

Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not

[edit] External links policy

[[Wikipedia:External links]] = Wikipedia:External links

Shortcut: [[WP:EL]]

[edit] Arbitration

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration

[edit] Templates

[edit] Needs an expert

{{Expert}} =

       This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.
       Please help recruit one, or improve this page yourself if you can.

[edit] Needs references

{{citeneeded}} =

       [citation needed]

{{unreferenced}} =

       This article does not cite its references or sources. You can help 
       Wikipedia by including appropriate citations.

{{Primarysources}} =

       This article does not cite sources or references that appear in a 
       credible publication and are not primary sources, such as websites and 
       publications affiliated with the subject of the article. You can help 
       Wikipedia by including appropriate citations.

[edit] Clean-up

This is the preferred tag, with an appropriate date added.

{{cleanup|February 2007}} =

       This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
       Please discuss this issue on the talk page or replace this tag with a more specific message.
       This article has been tagged since February 2007.

Other clean-up tags are also available:

Wikipedia:Template_messages/Cleanup#Cleanup_.E2.80.94_specific_issues

Such as:

{{copyedit}} =

       This article or section needs copy editing for proper spelling,
       grammar, usage, tone, style, and voice.
       You can help by editing it now. A guide is available, 
       as is general editing help.

Here's the old, basic tag:

{{cleanup}} =

       This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality.
       See How to Edit and Style and How-to for help, or this article's talk page.

[edit] Neutral PoV

{{POV-check}} =

       This article may not conform to the neutral point of view policy.
       A Wikipedian has nominated this article to be checked for its 
       neutrality. Discussion of this nomination can be found on the talk page.

       POV-check be added to an article which you feel needs to be edited for 
       neutrality. However, it is generally preferred that you use the 
       neutrality dispute template:

{{NPOV}} =

       The neutrality of this article is disputed.
       Please see discussion on the talk page.

[edit] Too much trivia

{{toomuchtrivia}} =

       This article's trivia section should be integrated into the article.
       Please help by removing unencyclopedic content or integrating content         
       from the trivia section into other appropriate areas of the article.

[edit] Film stub

{{film-stub}}

Further info:

Category:Film stubs

[edit] Television stub

{{tv-stub}}

Further info:

Category:Television stubs

[edit] Magazine & Journal stub

{{mag-stub}}

[edit] Generic stub

{{stub}}

[edit] Spoilers

{{spoiler}} =

       Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

{{Endspoiler}} =

       Spoilers end here.

[edit] IMDb links

{{imdb title|id=|title=}}

Explained here: Wikipedia:IMDb

[edit] Infobox Film

Explained here: Template:Infobox Film Syntax:

{{Infobox Film | name = 
  | image = 
  | caption =
  | director = 
  | producer = 
  | writer = 
  | starring =
  | music =
  | cinematography =
  | editing =
  | distributor = 
  | released = 
  | runtime = 
  | language = 
  | budget = 
  | preceded_by =
  | followed_by = 
  | imdb_id = 
}}

[edit] Television series infobox

Explained here: Template:Infobox television

{{Infobox Television
| show_name            = 
| image                = 
| caption              = 
| format               = 
| camera               = 
| picture_format       = 
| audio_format         = 
| runtime              = 
| creator              = 
| developer            = 
| producer             = 
| executive_producer   = 
| starring             = 
| narrated             = 
| theme_music_composer = 
| opentheme            = 
| endtheme             = 
| country              = 
| language             = 
| network              = 
| first_aired          = 
| last_aired           = 
| num_episodes         = 
| list_episodes        =
| chronology           = 
| preceded_by          = 
| followed_by          = 
| website              = 
| imdb_id              = 
| tv_com_id            = 
}}

[edit] Talk page header

{{talkheader}} =

This is the talk page for discussing changes to the BLANK article.

   * This is not a forum for general discussion about BLANK.
   * Please sign your posts by typing ~~~~ (four tildes).
   * Place new comments after existing ones (but within topic sections).
   * Separate topic sections with ==A descriptive header==.
   * New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Frequently Asked Questions.

Talk page guidelines

   * Respect etiquette
   * Assume good faith
   * No personal attacks
   * Be nice
   * Don't bite the newbies

[edit] Other Mark-Up

[edit] Categories

To add a page to a category:

[[Category:Category name]]

To list a category instead (note extra colon):

[[:Category:Category name]]

[edit] Common abbreviations

A list of abbreviations commonly used in the edit-summary description: Wikipedia:Edit summary legend. Summarized here: Wikipedia:Edit summary legend/Quick reference.

[edit] Citing references

Templates:

{{Book reference}} replaced by {{cite book}}, February 2006. See Template talk:Cite book for more info.

Short version:

{{cite book
 | last = 
 | first = 
 | authorlink = 
 | coauthors = 
 | year = 
 | title = '''REQUIRED'''
 | publisher = 
 | location = 
 | id = 
}}

Long version:

{{cite book
 | last = 
 | first = 
 | authorlink = 
 | coauthors = 
 | editor = 
 | others = 
 | title = '''REQUIRED'''
 | origdate = 
 | origyear = 
 | origmonth = 
 | url = 
 | format = 
 | accessdate = 
 | accessyear = 
 | accessmonth = 
 | edition = 
 | date = 
 | year = 
 | month = 
 | publisher = 
 | location = 
 | language = 
 | id = 
 | pages = 
 | chapter = 
 | chapterurl = 
}}

{{cite journal
 | first = 
 | last = 
 | authorlink = 
 | coauthors = 
 | year = 
 | month = 
 | title = '''REQUIRED'''
 | journal = 
 | volume = 
 | issue = 
 | pages = 
 | id = 
 | url = 
 }}

{{cite web
 | author = 
 | year = 
 | url = 
 | title = 
 | format = 
 | work = 
 | publisher = 
 | accessdate = 
 | accessyear = 
}}

For more info, see Wikipedia:Citing sources and Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles.

One type of reference is auto-generated at Wiki Bibliography

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] New style, based on cite.php extension

• To make a single use footnote:
  • <ref>text of note</ref> at the in-text place.
• To make a multiple use footnote:
  • <ref name=foo>text of note</ref> at each in-text place.
    • Alternatively <ref name=foo /> A self-closing tag on every use after name=foo has been defined.
• To add a References section to the end of the article
  • <references/> under the References heading.

[edit] Old style

The basic use of the ref and note templates is just choosing a one word descriptive <name> for your reference and:

• put {{ref|<name>}} where you want the footnote number to be
• put a numbered list at the bottom of your document # {{note|<name>}}, for automatic numbering of your footnotes.

Use a separate note template for each reference template.

Further info:

help:footnotes

[edit] Redirect

To redirect a page (1) to a different page (2), enter on the top of page 1:

        #REDIRECT [[NAME OF PAGE 2]]
        #REDIRECT [[NAME OF PAGE 2]] {{R from alternate name}}
        #REDIRECT [[NAME OF PAGE 2]] {{R from misspelling}}
        #REDIRECT [[NAME OF PAGE 2]] {{R for alternate capitalisation}}

Further info:

Wikipedia:Redirect

[edit] Merge

    {{merge|OTHER PAGE}}
    {{mergefrom|SOURCE PAGE}}
    {{mergeto|DESTINATION PAGE}}

Further info:

Wikipedia:Merge

[edit] Revert

Further info:

Wikipedia:Revert

[edit] Candidates for speedy deletion

Non-admins can ask for an admin to delete a page, either by listing it on speedy deletions, or by adding a {{deletebecause|Reason}} or a {{Db-reason|Reason}} header.

Authors can use speedy-delete on their own pages.

Further info:

Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion

[edit] Vandalism warning templates

• {{subst:test}} or {{subst:test1}}

Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, 
and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any 
other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if 
you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.
Thanks.

• {{subst:test2}}

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered 
vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. 
Thank you.

• {{subst:test2a}} (a variant suitable for blanking vandalism)

Please stop removing content from Wikipedia; it is considered 
vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. 
Thank you.

• {{subst:test3}}

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be 
blocked from editing Wikipedia.

• {{subst:test4}}

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, 
you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia

• {{subst:test5}}

You have been temporarily blocked from editing for vandalism of
Wikipedia. Please note that page blanking, addition of random text, 
deliberate misinformation, and repeated and blatant violation of 
WP:NPOV are considered vandalism. If you wish to make useful 
contributions, you may come back after the block expires.

Further info: Wikipedia:Vandalism

[edit] To insert an image in an article:

[[Image:FILENAME.jpg|thumb|Caption]]

For example:

[[Image:Rules of the Game 09 kitchen.jpg|thumb|A scene from [[Jean Renoir]]'s film, ''[[Rules of the Game]]'', exemplifies shallow focus.]]

Limited options are available for positioning the image:

More info:

Wikipedia:Extended image syntax Wikipedia:Picture tutorial

[edit] Images and Fair Use

Fair use comment to insert in article:

<!-- FAIR USE of IMAGENAME.jpg: see image description page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IMAGENAME.jpg for rationale -->

[edit] Fair use tag to insert in image description:

Fair use for [[deep focus]]

The image linked here is claimed to be used under fair use as:

# it is being used for the purposes of criticism and commentary
# it is only a very small part of the original work (just a single frame 
from a 24-frames-per-second movie)

[edit] Film screenshot tag to insert in image description:

{{film-screenshot}}

[edit] TV screenshot tag to insert in image description:

{{tv-screenshot}}

[edit] Publicity photo tag to insert in image description:

{{Promophoto}}

[edit] Promo-image tag to insert in image description:

{{Promotional}}

[edit] Other stuff to add to Image Description page

Wikipedia:Image description page

[edit] "Clearing" below an image with CSS

<br style="clear: both;">

[edit] Ongoing projects

Pages I'd like to improve as time permits.

• Jump cut