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WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
- For the notability guideline on entertainers, please see Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Entertainers
WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers is a
WikiProject dedicated to building comprehensive and detailed articles for actors and other filmmakers. Working to provide a greater focus on people in the film industry, the project is an integral part of both
WikiProject Biography and
WikiProject Films.
- Scope
WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers covers biographical material of individuals involved in the process of
making motion pictures, including people in the
Film industry such as the actors, directors, crew, and others who may be listed in the
Motion picture credits of a
Film. WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers does not cover individuals by reason of their participation in episodic programs such as those covered by
WikiProject Television.
- Goals
- To standardize Wikipedia articles on Film actors, Film directors, Film producers, Screenwriters, Cinematographers, Film editors, and Score composers.
- To improve Wikipedia coverage of film biographical material by adding, expanding and improving film biographical related articles
- To serve as a central point of discussion for issues related to Wikipedia film character articles, including those that may be under scrutiny
- To maintain standards for articles about people in world cinema, as well as for categories, templates, and other Wikipedia items that may support those articles
- To encourage and provide a structure for enhancing the writing of high quality articles on all manner of different people involved in cinema.
- To ensure that every article biography related to film uses Template:Infobox actor and an image if possible. Please try to place the infobox in all film bio articles.
On-going projects/to do lists
- Find free-use images for articles in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of actors and filmmakers
- Add infoboxes to articles in Category:Actors and filmmakers work group articles needing infoboxes
- Complete filmography tables listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_Actors_and_Filmmakers#Filmography_tables and others as they are noticed.
- Remove deprecated fields from infoboxes; these include lists of awards, notable roles, height, resting place and co-ordinates, children and in the case of some deceased subjects, the "silver" background default field.
- Remove awards succession boxes from articles.
- Exclude from the lead sentence phrases that bolster a person's status beyond basic descriptions covering career that designate the person's occupation. Examples include phrases that inflate standing such as being an award winner, award nominee, one of the greatest actors/filmmakers ever, or other such highlights. Such phrases can and should be used later in the lead section in better context, such as summarizing the kinds of awards won or the kind of polls that rank a person's greatness in the film industry. Lead sentences should only include name, birth/death dates, occupation and nationality. Example: William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer.
Project style guidelines
Filmography tables
| File:mbox notice.png | This filmography format is the subject of a current discussion on the talk page. Please feel free to join in. This doesn't mean that you may not be bold in editing this filmography format, but it can't hurt to check the discussion first. |
One of the project goals is also to clean up filmographies in actor and filmmaker articles from scruffy or backwards lists into presentable standardized tables that provide information. A good filmography should be constructed in the following layout, adding awards whenever possible and feasible. This is the format style determined by member consensus at
this discussion.
Succession boxes
Succession boxes where the succession box relates to the subject's work or notability as an actor are deprecated; see
this discussion, which is summarized
here. Non-performing succession boxes should be discussed at the appropriate project page.
Filmography navbox templates
Per extensive determinations of consensus as summarized
here, navbox templates containing filmographies are not supported by this project. Such templates should be nominated for deletion as unusable. Note that filmography navbox templates for work by film directors are not covered by this consensus.
Razzie Award templates
Per consensus as summarized
here, templates for recipients of Razzie Awards will not be used on articles under the provenance of this project.
Resources
- Resources provides a guide to finding information for sourcing articles, whether through online/print sources or members' personal libraries.
Participants
If you wish to join this project, please sign below.
In addition, participants and other Wikipedians who wish to show support for this project should feel free to add
{{User WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers}} to their user pages.
- ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "I've been expecting you" 14:46, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
- WiseKwai 16:03, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hoverfish Talk 16:27, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
- Nehrams2020 17:24, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
- Doctor Sunshine talk 20:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
- Cbrown1023 talk 22:04, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
- Prolog 20:00, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
- Brad E. Williams 23:34, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
- The Ring-Bearer BlackPearl14 17:24, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
- Rossrs 21:44, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
- María (habla conmigo) 15:54, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
- Bhavesh.Chauhan 15:47, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
- -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 16:42, 02 May 2007 (UTC)
- Mickea 10:52, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
- Thief12 15:33, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
- Ozgod 17:18, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- Tovojolo--Tovojolo 08:12, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
- Amadscientist 03:45, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
- User:Smith Jones 21:50, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
- Lighthead þ 03:25, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
- Melty girl 05:41, 13 July 2007 (UTC) talk
- J.D. 13:23, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
- Twelsht 17:49, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
- PC78 16:10, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
- Yamanbaiia 16:37, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
- Gram123 14:06, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
- Shahid • Talk2me' 22:52, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
- Phbasketball6 20:29, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
- Wildhartlivie 09:03, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
- Bradley0110 20:06, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
- Opark 77 23:12, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
- Mr pand 21:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
- 97198 talk 12:50, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
- Anoopkn (talk) 14:52, 26 November 2007 (UTC)-Indian personalities esp. those related to Malayalam films
- ♦ Luigibob ♦ "Talk to Luigi!" 15:45, 18 December 2007 (UTC) - Cinematographers, especially those that shot film noirs or neo-noirs.
- Shir-El too 22:18, 24 December 2007 (UTC). I grew up in Hollywood.
- The Universal Hero (talk) 16:03, 28 December 2007 (UTC) - Primarily South Indian films
- Bollywood Dreamz Talk 17:31, 28 December 2007 - Work primarily on Bollywood related articles.
- Million_Moments (talk) 10:02, 29 December 2007 (UTC) Working mostly on actors who work in the sci fi genre
- Fififolle (Fififolle) 22:15, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
- Mizu onna sango15/水女珊瑚15 18:26, 6 January 2008 (UTC) -Works primarily with American/English actors and/or filmmakers
- Pinkadelica (talk) 09:48, 17 January 2008 (UTC) Primarily obscure American actors and overlooked producers
- PeaceNT (talk) 14:16, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
- mike (talk) 01:53, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
- EraserGirl (talk) 03:36, 19 February 2008 (UTC) - working on Biographies of Women in film, mostly dead ones.
- Hazillow (talk) 02:23, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
- Catgut (talk) 03:02, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
- Easchiff 16:40, 5 April 2008 (UTC) . Mostly working on film editors.
- Drakesketchit 21:15, 12 June 2008
- CactusWriter 07:19, 15 June 2008 (UTC) Cinema of Denmark
- Glo145 (talk) 23:37, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
- Mageclansoftheeast 17:00 (GMT +8:00) Taiwan, 08 July 2008
- Cg-realms 12:01, 13 July 2008 (EDT)
- Lady Rose (talk) 20:26, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
- Ogi Ogioh (talk) 11:50, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
- --Music 26/ 11 21:59, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
- MichaelQSchmidt (talk<dot-separator> contribs) Have helped with a few bios related to Wiki ProjectFilm. I sign as Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 18:28, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
- --K3vin (talk) 11:45, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
- --Stetsonharry (talk) 19:34, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
- w_tanoto (talk) 22:51, 9 November 2008 (UTC) - working with whatever actor/actress I like (such as Meryl Streep).
- Bharathprime (talk) 19:26, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
- --Utilizer (talk) 21:26, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
- Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 08:22, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
- --Placebo123
- Big Bird (talk • contribs) 18:26, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
- Hunter Kahn - Just here to help on all things actor- or filmmaker-related. I recently promoted Sebastian Shaw to FA.
- WikiGuy86 (talk) 10:21, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
- decltype (talk) 11:15, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
- Anant Singh (talk) 04:03, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
- Willscrlt ( “Talk” ) 00:35, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
- Snigdh (talk) 14:00, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
- BOVINEBOY2008 14:06, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
- RudyBowWow talk 22:04, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
- nycdi (talk) 00:58, 23 August 2009 (UTC) I like to clean up grammar and punctuation, find and add source citations, and edit for neutrality and better prose. I especially like finding and citing past reviews of Broadway and off-Broadway performances to the bios of today's film and TV actors.
- Koshpeli (talk) 06:54, 3 September 2009 (UTC) Particularly trying to improve page on Alexeieff, would love help Wikifying it.
- Garbolia--07:30, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
- —Mike Allen 01:02, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- Evalpor
- TheLastAmigo (talk<dot-separator> contribs)
- Sean (talk || contribs) 04:21, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
- Action grrl (talk) 19:25, 30 December 2009 (UTC) I am interested in articulating the contributions of lesbian filmmakers and actressess to the art, through articles on Wikipedia.
- MrPanyGoff (talk<dot-separator> contribs) Started working keenly on Bulgarian films and actors articles. Would like also to contribute for other films and actors aside of the Bulgarian ones
- User:Crystal Clear x3 - mainly here to work on actors and film articles
Inactive members
- Jreferee 15:43, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
- Cleo123 20:51, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
- Ekantik talk 02:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
- Malla nox 22:24, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- ManofThoth 20:00, 20 April 2007 2007 (UTC)
- Count Ringworm 14:06, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
- Dwnwrd 14:33, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
- Bryan Seecrets 11:03, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
- Rosario 01:38, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
- Fbi woman 20:31, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
- Kudret abi 19:08, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
- Wiikipedian
- Temarie 17:13, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
- Reginmund 02:26, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
- Pa7 -- 16:34, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
- JPmaverick 13:01, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
- Beachside press 17:21, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
- IrishGuy talk 21:13, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
- EconomicsGuy (talk) 09:38, 21 December 2007 (UTC) Primarily actors of the silent film era but anything up to the 1950s will be of interest
- fschoenm (talk) 21:18, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
- Humbleradio (talk)
- Magicbullet5 (talk) 16:03, 28 April 2008 (UTC). Mostly filmmakers and occasionally actors.
- Hamuhamu (talk) 06:42, 18 May 2008 (UTC) Working on expanding stubs of Asian actors.
- Fleurbutterfly--::semper fidelis:: 16:59, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
- Panic!out
- TheTwoRoads (talk) 15:08, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
- intelati
- PhantomS 15:11, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
- Anas talk? 16:40, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- FilmFemme 18:29, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Departments
Templates
In order to tag an article as belonging to this project, please use the following syntax:
{{WPBiography
| living =
| class =
| filmbio-work-group = yes
| filmbio-priority =
| needs-photo =
| needs-infobox =
| needs-filmography =
| listas =
}}{{{{{uc: }}}}}}}}
|topic1=biography (arts and entertainment) |topic2=biography (politics and government)
|topic3=biography (royalty) |topic4=biography (science and academia)
|topic5=biography (sports and games) }}}
|topic1=biography (arts and entertainment) |topic2=biography (politics and government)
|topic3=biography (royalty) |topic4=biography (science and academia)
|topic5=biography (sports and games) }}|FA|A|GA|B|C|Start|Stub|FL|List=}}
|CAT_5 = Incorrectly tagged WikiProject Biography articles
|cat 6=}
|topic1=biography (arts and entertainment) |topic2=biography (politics and government)
|topic3=biography (royalty) |topic4=biography (science and academia)
|topic5=biography (sports and games) }}|Category|}}
|CAT_6 = Incorrectly tagged WikiProject Biography articles
|cat 7=}
|topic1=biography (arts and entertainment) |topic2=biography (politics and government)
|topic3=biography (royalty) |topic4=biography (science and academia)
|topic5=biography (sports and games) }}|Template|}}
|CAT_7 = Incorrectly tagged WikiProject Biography articles
|cat 8=
|CAT_8 = }} }}
Actor infobox
{{Infobox actor
| name =
| image =
| imagesize =
| caption =
| birthname =
| birthdate =
| birthplace =
| deathdate =
| deathplace =
| othername =
| occupation =
| yearsactive =
| spouse =
| domesticpartner =
| website =
}}Please see Template:Infobox Actor for information of parameters of the infobox.
Articles
Featured articles
The following film-related biographies have been officially classified as
featured articles, those representing the best of Wikipedia. They were not necessarily improved to featured status by this WikiProject.
Candidates
Featured article review
Featured lists
The following film-related biographies have been officially classified as
featured lists, those representing the best of Wikipedia. They were not necessarily improved to featured status by this WikiProject.
Good articles
The following have been recognized as
good articles.
Candidates
A-Class articles
A-Class articles, while not as rigorously reviewed as featured articles, are nevertheless considered to provide a well-written and complete treatment of the topic; they pass through a
review process within the project before being selected.
Did You Know? (DYK)
Henri-Georges Clouzot •
Venida Evans •
Omar Doom •
Eric Kabera •
Barry Malkin •
Barbara McLean •
Sam O'Steen •
Read Morgan •
Bryan O'Byrne
Articles for deletion (actors)
See
Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Actors and actresses.
Actors
For information on our stub templates see
Wikipedia:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers/Templates and categories
Directors
Screenwriters
Scope
This project is an effort to improve the articles on Screenwriters and Screenwriting at Wikipedia and to create a portal to encompass the totality of that knowledge.
Current collaborations
Goals
- Develop a format for writing the career of a screenwriter.
- Create a Screenwriters portal
Examples
Film producers
Cinematographers
Requested
Film editors
Examples
Missing editors in film articles
The
infobox is often the only place in a film article where the editor is noted, but
many infoboxes do not include the editor(s). If you are working on an editor's article, please check the corresponding film articles to see if the editor has been listed. This work may be more important than adding the filmography to the editor's article!
If the editor is missing, the infobox may also be missing the editing = line. In this case you'll need to add this line to the infobox. You'll also need to place a "pipe" symbol | at the beginning (| editing =) or end of the line. Once the editing = line is present, enter the name of the editor using the format editing = [[editor's name]]. Multiple editors are entered using the format editing = [[editor 1 name]]
[[editor 2 name]].
Film editing: directors and editors
In editing articles about film editors, it's important to acknowledge that the editing of a particular film is usually a collaboration between the director and the editor. For this reason, it is reasonable to indicate the director for each film in an editor's filmography.
Imdb doesn't naturally do this, which could make Wikipedia's filmographies for film editors more useful than imdb's. Longstanding, particularly notable collaborations of editors and directors can be added to the
List of film director and editor collaborations.
Film score composers
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