Wikipedia:WikiProject Chinese cinema

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Contents 1 Participants 2 Conventions 3 Missing articles 3.1 Article parts 3.2 Pictures 3.3 External links 4 Templates 4.1 WikiProject Chinese cinema notice 4.2 Userbox 4.3 Plotnote

[edit] Participants

1. AQu01rius (talk • contribs)
2. Badbilltucker (talk • contribs)

[edit] Conventions

[edit] Missing articles

Please work on the missing Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/List of films without article/List of missing Chinese Films list

[edit] Article parts

Chinese film Wiki articles often lack conciseness. This is due sometimes to the over-enthusiasm of the Wiki's writers or editors for the subject matter or their enthrallment of it. Writers and editors of these articles often fail to understand that these film pages are meant to convey clean, brief information about films to readers, being careful not to reveal vital plot information or conclusions. It should also be borne in mind that film Wiki articles are meant to neither be prosaic, blow-by-blow recounting of entire films nor altars for panegyric.

Articles on actors seem to fall into a standard pattern of an introductory paragraph, early years, career, personal life, trivia, awards, filmography, references and external links. Articles on Indian musicians generally consist of the following sections: leading paragraph, early years, career, awards, partial discography, references and external links. Articles on films should include an introductory paragraph, an infobox, and possibly a spoilered synopsis.

[edit] Pictures

This has been a very contentious issue. Some enthusiastic fans want to place many pictures, often copyrighted pictures taken from websites. One editor, Plumcouch, has worked hard to make sure that all pictures used are public domain. There is also an emerging consensus that one picture per article may be appropriate, to prevent the proliferation of fan pictures. Comments solicited on talk page.

[edit] External links

Fansites are often of low quality and feature commercial links. Moreover, there are many sites for popular actors, and if we link to one, it seems fair to link to all. A consensus seems to be emerging that only links to the actor's official site and IMDB article are allowable. Comments appreciated on talk page.

[edit] Templates

[edit] WikiProject Chinese cinema notice

Place this WikiProject notice {{WPCHINA|cinema=yes}}, at the top of an article's Talk page to direct editors to the Wikiproject Chinese cinema for guidelines. It will also help the assessment department of China wikiproject.

It will produce:

	This article is part of WikiProject China, a project to improve all China-related articles. If you would like to help improve this and other China-related articles, please join the project. All interested editors are welcome.
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.
	This non-article page is maintained by the Chinese cinema workgroup.
More information about this page... NA This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the importance scale.

(Note that in this example the notice has been classified as "NA", so that it will not appear on the list of unassessed articles. This will not happen normally if the above code is used.)

[edit] Userbox

Userbox enthusiasts can put this {{User WikiProject Chinese cinema}} to show that you are a member of this project.

[edit] Plotnote

{{plotnote}} - this template is an appeal to over-enthusiastic editors to not give away crucial elements in the story. These comments are visible only in the edit mode. The template should be subst'ed to take effect, that is, use {{subst:plotnote}} for the template to take effect. It would be ideal to place the template immediately after {{spoiler}}.