Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Failed log/August 2022
- The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.
The list was archived by PresN via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 14 August 2022 (UTC) [3].
- Nominator(s): Kingsif (talk) 23:14, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
My first FLC, though not the first list article I have worked extensively on. Having worked on the film article this awards list relates to (and, more specifically, having had a news alert for that), I know it is a comprehensive list of all accolades received which are sufficiently notable for a Wikipedia list article. It has been in draft until yesterday because of a simmering but ongoing discussion over the color of certain awards results boxes - the main issue being over "pending" and, with the last pending awards for this film announced yesterday, that is no longer an issue. I hope that the perceived newness (it has been a public draft, and other editors have contributed if just by adding and updating the awards table on the film article, which this replaces) does not work against the FLC, but understand if it does. In keeping with featured lists of the same scope, the prose is all in the lead, with some notes throughout the sectioned tables. I believe this prose to be well-written and properly sourced, but welcome comments for improvement. Similarly, any comments to improve the sectioning, too, are welcome. The ref formatting is a style derived from harv refs which I began using a few years ago, and which has been warmly welcomed by others as a style particularly helpful to readers looking for refs, but I of course also welcome feedback on this (including if the sub-headers "News", "Web", etc. should indeed by sub-headers rather than bold text). Kingsif (talk) 23:14, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
Comments from Aoba47
edit- For the infobox image, I would expand the caption to include where it was taken to provide the full context to readers. I would also add ALT text to the image.
- I am uncertain about the current placement of the short film paragraph at the end of the lede. The second paragraph mentions that this film was adapted, but it is not immediately clear until the end of the lede that it was adapted from a short. I understand the rationale for its inclusion as it is part of the film's awards reception, but would it be possible to integrate into the prose earlier rather than sectioning it off at the end?
- What makes Hetedik Sor a strong enough source to mention in the lead? To be clear, I do not have any issue with it, and I just want to get a clearer understanding of this as I have not heard of this website before.
- Shouldn't this line, the ceremony marked a return to fully in-person events, have a small bit about the COVID-19 context to how this return to in-person events is notable?
- While this quote, "were seen toasting with champagne several times", is cute, I do not think it is notable or particularly informative enough to put in the lede or the list in general.
- For the MVFF citation at the bottom of the page, I would avoid putting "Behind the Screens" in all caps even if the site did that. In general, I would avoid all caps unless it is an acronym so I would also avoid instances when the film title is presented this way.
Great work with this list. I have heard a lot about this film, mostly from film critics who believe this movie should have received attention from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, but I have not actually watched it. I get what the Vulture citation is saying about why it did not receive major nomination, but in my opinion, it more so boils down to that it was not picked up by a major distributor and did not get the awards campaign that other films did. Best of luck with the FLC! Aoba47 (talk) 23:50, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for the comments, I'll respond down here to make who's saying what clearer.
- I've added these; I had believed that alt text was not necessary when the comment described the image sufficiently, but have added some basic alt text anyway.
- I have both moved the sentence about the short film, to follow the sentence in the second paragraph where the adapted screenplay is mentioned, and I have edited the short film sentence for flow.
- Hetedik Sor, from reading the website and looking at its references on the Hungarian Wikipedia, is a website akin to Gold Derby and AwardsWatch: a film awards season/Oscars race website that may serve as a year-round bookies but is popular and reliable for film coverage during awards season. At least one film article on the Hungarian Wikipedia also uses the website as an external link along with IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes (Birds of Passage (film), so not a small film, either). The 'editorials' of GoldDerby and AwardsWatch do not commonly rank films by number of all awards, which is why they are not used here. Hetedik Sor, as I see it, is an equivalent source.
- I have added "following the COVID-19 pandemic" (with wikilink to the impact on cinema article); as the pandemic is not really over, any better wording suggestions would be appreciated.
- I have removed this (I also thought it was cute).
- I have removed all-caps where I've seen it; if there are any instances I've missed, please tell me!
- Thank you! While Utopia did their absolute best to promote the movie, and made more of a name for themselves in the process, I have to agree with you; I was watching the Indie Spirits and, there, the director said that they had no money and it was nice that the Spirits gave awards to films that couldn't afford to campaign (i.e. Shiva Baby) - but I haven't seen that soundbite repeated in any source (though they're probably doing her a favor, as you expect some people would interpret it as a dig at the Oscars). Kingsif (talk) 00:28, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you for your responses. To be honest, I am not entirely sure if ALT text is helpful, and it is a subject that I really should read more about as I have seen some conflicting opinions about it. I do not have a strong opinion, and I only brought it because it is something that seems expected for featured content. Thank you for the explanation for the Hetedik Sor source. That makes sense to me. You are right that the pandemic is not over, and I appreciate that you added context to this part of the list. For better or for worse, a lot of the Academy nominations and wins boil down to their campaigns. I doubt CODA would have had the same success if Apple TV+ did not distribute and promote it. I've seen some speculation that CODA wins may translate to bigger company and distributors picking up more films at festivals like the Sundance Film Festival, and I'd be interested in seeing if that really happens. I'd imagine that this film helped Emma Seligman in the end as critics were very positive about it.
- Anyway, apologies for that long paragraph. I support this FLC for promotion. It does look somewhat different than other film awards list which put all the awards and nominations into a singular table, but I can see the advantages to this set-up and I do not really have a strong opinion either way. Have a great start to your week! Aoba47 (talk) 00:41, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
- I wouldn't be surprised if more studios picked up films out of festivals, especially streaming; there was actually a Variety (VIP) article that I think was a source in this list but has been replaced, which inferred the same about Shiva Baby and various other TIFF/SXSW/Sundance/general fall festival films - saying that streamers were picking up the audience award winners to try and boost films that would otherwise be acclaimed but obscure. It didn't really happen, but maybe with CODA's win, there will be even more attempts, and surely a few more hits. Apologies for continuing your long paragraph, and thanks for the support! Kingsif (talk) 00:56, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Aoba47: I was looking over the article yesterday, and think it may be improved by swapping the third and fourth paragraphs of the lead (para 2 ending on an Oscars discussion will lead into current para 4 mentioning similar, and the end of current para 4 that kinda mentions lack of campaign will lead into current para 3 starting with another theory of fewer noms) - since you have already indicated support, I wanted to notify you before making the change. Kingsif (talk) 00:55, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you for the message. That sounds good to me. Aoba47 (talk) 01:45, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
- Tables need captions, which allow screen reader software to jump straight to named tables without having to read out all of the text before it each time. Visual captions can be added by putting
|+ caption_text
as the first line of the table code; if that caption would duplicate a nearby section header, you can make it screen-reader-only by putting|+ {{sronly|caption_text}}
instead. You actually sort of have a caption with that header bar, so just change it to be a standard caption instead.
- I have done this for the non-collapsible tables. Adding this row, from my attempts to add it, at least, prevent collapsible tables from doing so properly, and these tables are already captioned in the first row, anyway (i.e. the first thing a screen reader will read, even if not labelled as a caption). As suggested, due to the section headers, I have made the captions screen reader only. Kingsif (talk) 13:31, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
- Yeah, the tables shouldn't be collapsible. The tables are the primary information for the list, and as per MOS:COLLAPSE should not be collapsed or even collapsible as a result. Captions are also not just for reading out by screen readers, but allow screen reader software to jump straight to a named table the same way a visual reader can scroll right to a table since it looks different than plain text. Why do you want the tables to be collapsible? --PresN 13:59, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
- It's just how I've seen it in similar articles; consistency is what I prioritized before getting into functionality (and my accessibility knowledge is mostly limited to colors). Kingsif (talk) 14:22, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
- Tables need row scopes on the "primary" column for each row, which in combination with column scopes lets screen reader software accurately determine and read out the headers for each cell of a data table. Row scopes can be added by adding
!scope=row
to each primary cell, e.g.! ''[[Another Magazine|AnOther Magazine]]''becomes!scope=row | ''[[Another Magazine|AnOther Magazine]]''. If the cell spans multiple rows, then use!scope=rowgroup
instead.
- @PresN: I have done this for the year-end rankings; the other tables don't already use rowspans, should I also add to those? (The row header box does not seem to be used for these lists among FLs of similar scope, is why I ask). Also, is there any way to center back the text; adding a style parameter doesn't do it. Kingsif (talk) 13:41, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
- Yeah, the left-aligning is because of the plainrowheaders class on the table, if you remove that they go back to being centered. When you do that, though, you'll see that you're actually doing some odd things with bolding- you can just remove the bolding marks, it's trying to double-bold them in the cases where you put the italics outside the link but the bolding inside for some reason. If you didn't know, in general, stick all of the ticks outside of the link, and if you want both italics and bold (in general, not in this case) you just use 5 ticks (2 for italics, 3 for bold) like this. And yes, all tables should use rowscopes - !scope=row normally, and !scope=rowgroup if the cell has rowspan=whatever, e.g.
| rowspan="2"| [[Dorian Awards]]
becomes!scope=row rowspan="2"| [[Dorian Awards]]
- note the change to use a ! instead of a | at the beginning, that's what makes it a "header" cell instead of a regular one. --PresN 13:59, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
- Auto-bolding (goes inside) isn't my favorite thing, either ;) Thanks for the headers note. Kingsif (talk) 14:22, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
- Yeah, the left-aligning is because of the plainrowheaders class on the table, if you remove that they go back to being centered. When you do that, though, you'll see that you're actually doing some odd things with bolding- you can just remove the bolding marks, it's trying to double-bold them in the cases where you put the italics outside the link but the bolding inside for some reason. If you didn't know, in general, stick all of the ticks outside of the link, and if you want both italics and bold (in general, not in this case) you just use 5 ticks (2 for italics, 3 for bold) like this. And yes, all tables should use rowscopes - !scope=row normally, and !scope=rowgroup if the cell has rowspan=whatever, e.g.
- Please see MOS:DTAB for example table code if this isn't clear. I don't return to these reviews until the nomination is ready to close, so ping me if you have any questions. --PresN 23:32, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
- This should be all done! Thanks! Kingsif (talk) 23:40, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
Comments
edit- In the juried awards section, the recipients currently sort in order of forename. They should sort in order of surname.
- Same with the critics' awards
- also, shouldn't the heading for that section be Critics' awards....?
- Same sorting issue with the media awards
- (The recipients in the festival awards section do support correctly, but I think that may be by coincidence :-) )
- "Shared with Woody Norman for C'mon C'mon." and "Shared with Passing and Pig." are not complete sentences so shouldn't have full stops
- Think that's it from me :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:41, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
- @ChrisTheDude: I think I've addressed all these. I've added sortname parameters, suppressing redlinks for all but the first instance. I also haven't sorted by anything other than the film title in the instances of the film and then named cast/crew being nominated/winning - should those be sorted by the first alphabetical surname (e.g. the two Apolo Awards for the film, should one be sorted as "Filmin" and the other as "Agron", or as "Shiva Baby Filmin" and so on?) Kingsif (talk) 20:56, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
- Support - sorting all looks goot now :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 06:57, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
Comments by Z1720
editI am still getting used to reviewing FLCs, so feedback and comments are appreciated.
- "it won a variety of critics', festival, and media titles;" I think it should be "critic"?
- "it was included on many best-of lists." Who compliled these best-of lists? Was it media companies? Was these best-of film lists, screenplay lists, or something similar?
- "The short film from which it was adapted, also called Shiva Baby and written and directed by Seligman, was released in 2018 and nominated in the Best Narrative Short category at the 2018 South by Southwest film festival." Since this list is about the 2020 film, and not the 2018 short film, I think this sentence is a little off-topic and belongs in the movie's main article instead.
- The lede spends a lot of time on the movie's possible Academy Awards nominations, with one and a half paragraphs talking about it. Since this list is for all awards, not just the Oscars, I would move all the Academy Awards information to one paragraph and trim it.
- " the ceremony marked a return to fully in-person events following the COVID-19 pandemic[22] and, when the film won, the cast and crew all accepted the award on stage." I think this information is more about the award, and less about the film winning the award, and is off-topic for this article. It can be removed.
- "One of the film's stars, Agron, also presented an award at the ceremony." I definitely think this is off-topic for this article and too much detail, and should be removed.
- "Shiva Baby placed on various best-of lists for both 2020, the year of its festival debut, and 2021, when it was released in movie theaters and on streaming. It has been included on overall lists as well as lists specifically for independent, debut, comedy, horror, Jewish, and LGBTQ+ movies." I think this sentence should be cited.
- I think the notes in the list should be in the rank column, as it is explaining why there is no rank for the film on this list.
- Should note a and b have citations?
Those are my thoughts on the prose. Z1720 (talk) 18:28, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you for the comments, @Z1720:, I'll again go through from top to bottom. Kingsif (talk) 13:26, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
- I don't think so - take away the rest of the list, that would make it "critic titles", and the section to which it refers would have to be "critic awards". Since each award is given by a collective of critics, not a single critic, then pertaining to multiple critics (so, critics') is correct and standard. Both for the titles of awards and as I have seen it across Wikipedia.
- Re. what kind of best-of lists; it is a film, so that seems redundant to restate. Like, it hasn't specified film festival awards, just festival. Of course, one of the lists mentioned in the section is for "moments of 2021"; this and the fact the scope of each list is different would make it impossible to concisely summarize such. So, I think any amendment here is both unnecessary and would result in poor prose.
- The reason I included the mention of the nomination for the 2018 short film, is something that I will refer to when addressing some of your other points: I wrote the prose as if it was an in-depth article looking at the entire background and history of coverage of the awards season for this film. So, its "precursor" film being nominated for an award seems important in that respect. Regarding your suggestion it goes at the film (2020?) article: another, less strong, really, reason for inclusion is that people might be looking for the information at this awards article; the pageviews tool suggests very few people are even looking for the article altogether, but both films share a title (among nearly everything else), and the title of the article is not disambiguated - i.e. the title is "List of accolades received by Shiva Baby", not "List of accolades received by Shiva Baby (2020)". As there is no article for the short film (though there's definitely enough media coverage for one, it's well-covered at the 2020 film article), there isn't a more-appropriate place for this mention, either.
- I think my concern the inclusion of the precursor film is that this is an article about the list of accolades received by the 2020 film. I felt that this sentence, about an award that the 2018 short film received, is not pertinent to this article. In other words, as a reader of this list article, I do not need to know this information. If this is going to be an article about the awards that both the 2018 short film and the 2020 film received, then I think the first sentence will need to specify this, as currently the first sentence says that this list is only about the 2020 film. Z1720 (talk) 02:16, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, the article shouldn't be, kind of, inclusive of the 2018 short film, I didn't mean to suggest that. My main thought was that, well, for a practical example, the article for the film Pieces of a Woman has a whole section on the play it is based on, talking about some specifics that don't seem to have anything to do with the film, but then the techniques from the play were used in the film adaptation. The Shiva Baby article mentions some themes of the short film, that are expanded upon in the 2020 film. So, it makes sense to have "background" information of an original work in a (prose) article about the film adaptations of said works, and so I thought it was appropriate to include similar information here (and, hey, is it not interesting that both short and feature versions were nominated at SXSW?) - of course, I am most familiar with writing prose articles, with relevant-comprehensive-concise background information included... like with your other outstanding point, do you think an explanatory footnote (and this would be at the SXSW table entry) would be an improvement? Kingsif (talk) 21:22, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- I think an explanatory footnote stating that the 2018 short film was also nominated would be more appropriate than putting it in the prose. I don't think this article needs as much background information about the film, as that information is more appropriate in the Shiva Baby parent article. I am always mindful of how much information is in an article, as the more prose there is the less likely readers are going to read the information. It's a careful balance and I tend to lean towards having less information. Z1720 (talk) 13:27, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
- There is a lot more media discussion of the Oscars than all other awards combined. Cutting down on such would be creating false balance. We base articles on sources; if most of the features on the film's award season discuss the Oscars, a lot of the article prose will discuss the Oscars.
- I agree that there is often lots of media coverage about the Oscars. Upon looking at the article again, I think my original concern was that a paragraph and a half was devoted to speaking about the Oscars in some way. I think I got that impression because of the Hetedik Sor quote. I do not know if there is a fix to this, because the flow does work well, and if there isn't a way to put all the Oscar stuff in one paragraph, then it should just be left as-is. Z1720 (talk) 02:16, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- I've looked at it, and to address what you bring up here, do you think it would work better than the current to end that sentence at "best of the rest", and then put the explanatory information feat. Oscars mention in a footnote? Kingsif (talk) 21:22, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- I think that would work. Z1720 (talk) 13:23, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
- See the above comment on writing about the whole award season for the film. This includes some context, including the effect of the pandemic, so the first completely in-person ceremony is context for saying the cast and crew were all together accepting the award - which I'd contend is directly
about the film winning the award
- (continued in next point, about the same part) - and someone in the cast presenting is the (implicit) contextual information that the organizers were confident in the film's chances. Of course, this is also mentioned more directly, so though it's still part of the film's whole awards season, I'll remove this line as you suggest.
- It's a summary of the table, I don't know it would be "cited" besides adding a note that says "look down"...
- Those notes are in rows that have reference boxes at the end; the refs at the end are for the whole row, including the note. Note c has an inline citation as it uses a quotation. This has reminded me to add such a cite for the FOX alpha note, though.
- This feels like a lot of saying no; I'm not attached to the prose as-is, I honestly don't think the changes suggested in your comments would be an improvement to the article. I hope I've explained why well, and I'm happy to discuss, and welcome to other opinions. Kingsif (talk) 14:06, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Kingsif: I wanted to take some time away from this article to (hopefully) give myself a renewed look on the article, or at least try to read it again from a fresh perspective. To keep my comments organised on which point I am speaking to, I have commented below your bullet points above. If I did not respond to the bullet point, it means that I have nothing further to add and I am no longer concerned about it. I am very much in favour of editors telling me why they disagree, and if I feel strongly about something then I will comment further about it. Generally, I am not that bothered by prose differences, so I didn't respond to most of those comments. Thanks for your patience in addressing my comments. I'll try to respond more quickly next time. Z1720 (talk) 01:52, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Z1720: Thank you for leaving comments! I hope I responded thoughtfully, and I expect you will have done the same, so I will read them (soon) when I have time to properly focus on this. Kingsif (talk) 02:14, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Z1720: Added replies :) Kingsif (talk) 21:22, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Z1720: Thanks, and done. Kingsif (talk) 20:23, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Kingsif: I wanted to take some time away from this article to (hopefully) give myself a renewed look on the article, or at least try to read it again from a fresh perspective. To keep my comments organised on which point I am speaking to, I have commented below your bullet points above. If I did not respond to the bullet point, it means that I have nothing further to add and I am no longer concerned about it. I am very much in favour of editors telling me why they disagree, and if I feel strongly about something then I will comment further about it. Generally, I am not that bothered by prose differences, so I didn't respond to most of those comments. Thanks for your patience in addressing my comments. I'll try to respond more quickly next time. Z1720 (talk) 01:52, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
One additional comment:
- "for 2020 and, especially, 2021, it was included on many best-of lists." Lot of commas here. Perhaps, "for 2020, and especially 2021, it was included on many best-of lists." or something similar.
Please ping when ready. Z1720 (talk) 00:50, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Z1720: I've gone with "for 2021, and also 2020, it was…" - the many commas were to keep it grammatically sound while not putting the 2021 mention, really the whole point, in a subordinate clause (which makes it read somewhat like an aside); putting 2021 first seemed to work better, and it matches the order of the tables in that section. Hopefully the achronology isn't an issue, though the paragraph is already basically in reverse order. Kingsif (talk) 14:01, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
- Support my concerns, per above, have been addressed. Z1720 (talk) 14:18, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
- Source review
The way you're doing sources is technically fine, but legitimately horrifying. It's twice as long for no reason, makes it impossible to go from a source to what it's citing (as opposed to the other way around), and requires you to misuse date fields like "(October 7, 2021b)" so that the sfn links work. Like I said, it's technically fine, though, so, actual issues:
- Most of the sources are fine, except for TIFF2020 where you cite IMDB.
- You're mixing date formats, please standardize on either Month dd, yyyy or yyyy-mm-dd. I guess Month dd, yyyy, since the cite templates complain if you add "a" to the end of a date in the yyyy-mm-dd format.
- Speaking of cite templates complaining, the second one in "press releases" should be cite web, not cite document- document needs a journal name, and that's a pdf on a website
- "the Guardian" should be "The Guardian" everywhere
- You have trans-titles on some non-English cites, but ideally all non-English cite titles should have them. --PresN 22:42, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
legitimately horrifying
I mean, okay. Your reasons aren't really detrimental and a big benefit is that it's a more visual-fronted system that aids readers, but whatever.- WP:CITEIMDB; since awards are not user-editable, it is in the "meh" section. There hasn't been recent discussion on moving it, but last there was, there were concerns with some awards listed at IMDb being indiscriminate; since that concern is otherwise handled with different policy, and in this case as a supporting ref, it's acceptable.
- I'll standardize the other things you bring up; I haven't had a lot of time recently but should be done by end of week if not much sooner. Kingsif (talk) 03:29, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
- @PresN: Including removing the superfluous IMDb ref, addressed everything now. Kingsif (talk) 21:20, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
Comments by RunningTiger123
edit- I personally don't think the "Best-of lists" section should be included. It's fairly indiscriminate, and it sets a bad precedent. Imagine if a more "popular" film (at least in terms of awards buzz) like The Power of the Dog or Dune had a similar table – with inclusion standards like this, it would easily have several hundred entries, overwhelming the article. For instance, Metacritic compiled a bunch of end-of-year lists for 2021, and The Power of the Dog was on almost 180 of them – and I'm certain there are plenty of other lists that Metacritic omitted. Maybe placing first on a list would be notable, but being 10th on some random website's annual list probably isn't notable enough. Overall, this is my biggest concern with the article, and I honestly don't think I could !vote support with this included. (But if consensus is to promote despite this, I obviously won't stop it.)
- If it does stay, the following edits need to be made:
- "Mejores películas 2021 para Javier Quintanar Polanco" – translate to English
- Same for "21 películas de 2021 que deberías haber visto"
- "The Arts Fuse" should sort by "Arts", not "The"
- If it does stay, the following edits need to be made:
- Why are the tables for different awards split up? The general format for similar lists is to create a single large table for all awards.
- In the infobox, wins are typically counted again as nominations (so, for instance, the Artios Awards should list 1 win/1 nom instead of 1 win/0 noms)
Link John Cassavetes Award in lead- Sorting for the "Media awards" table is confusing: If "Braddies", "Cal Arts", "Golden Brick", and "Golden Tomato" are going to be the sort terms, they should be listed first.
- The Daily Californian is a student newspaper and probably isn't notable enough to include.
- Why does "Listed" use the runner-up template for the Braddies but the win template for all other cases?
- I agree with PresN's concerns that date formats should be standardize and that the citation from IMDb should be removed (it's not reliable and it's not even needed in this case).
- I also agree with PresN's comments about the citation format; it's needlessly complicated for a list like this where most sources are cited once and page numbers aren't needed.
- The Best-of lists is something I have seen across similar articles, so included; it is also selected, as this film would be on hundreds, too. At the talk page I wrote some notes about entries I removed for not being selective enough. Knowing that such lists exists, list articles would surely be incomplete without inclusion? Very happy to discuss more criteria for cutting it down, though, I tried my best before! Kingsif (talk) 20:33, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- Do you have an example of such a list being included in a comparable article? I searched every film accolade FL from 12 Years a Slave to Dunkirk and could not find a single example of this. RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:30, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
- I think I answered the table splitting somewhere above, but navigability, really. Kingsif (talk) 20:33, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- But merging the tables allows for more useful sorting. And again, the selection of FLs I searched all used a single table. Obviously there is no single correct format, but the widespread usage of the single-table format would suggest it has some consensus behind it. (If anything, the standard used to be to split tables and has swung towards a single table; see this 2020 discussion for a TV awards list.) Finally, it introduces unneeded subjectivity into an article; for instance, should the National Board of Review be counted as a juried award or a critics' award? Sorting alphabetically in a single list makes it much easier to find a given organization instead of guessing which table it falls under. RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:30, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
- In the infobox, the template has a preformatted note saying
For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.
- so, no? I've never seen wins doubled up as a nom count, and this note clearly says to assume every win was previously nom, so suggests that not doubling up is how it should be done. Kingsif (talk) 20:33, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- It's not great wording, but I think it means that awards that only announce winners are still credited with a nomination. The three most recent film accolade FLs all use this standard, and from experience, I'm fairly confident most others do as well. RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:30, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
- It's already linked in the lead? Kingsif (talk) 20:33, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
Self-trout Struck accordingly. RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:30, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
- I'll organise the sorting. Been busy, also why I haven't addressed PresN's comments yet. Kingsif (talk) 20:33, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- Just noticed, this was probably because the column was titled as Outlet/Award, so I suppose I put the outlet first then sorted by award. Anyway, amended now. Kingsif (talk) 21:30, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- I'll remove Daily Cal then (fun note: that particular win set film twitter ablaze, Cal Arts is a university but a very respected one). Kingsif (talk) 20:33, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- FWIW, that paper is from UC Berkeley, not Cal Arts. (Still a respected university, but probably not notable.) RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:30, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, I'm trying to get to the dates PresN mentioned. Kingsif (talk) 20:33, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- Hmm, I disregarded PresN's comments about the citation formatting for being unconstructive; how do you think it's overcomplicated? To wit, I have a widescreen monitor and still the auto style of formatting just gives a lot of jumbled columns of refs so clickthroughs are really needed to find what you're looking for, and it doesn't have whitespace around it to be read without, like, concerted effort. Anything that mitigates that is a win, and any organisation is helpful. The section relationship seems logical, what readerly issues do you think the formatting causes? Kingsif (talk) 20:33, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- Oh, I missed your "listed" question; this was a bit of personal interpretation, as these colors typically are. While in most cases getting on a list is "winning", among a group, the Braddies don't have winners (this is mentioned in a footnote), and so the lists are essentially all runners-up. Kingsif (talk) 21:25, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- @RunningTiger123: Made changes, and otherwise responded to comments. I am honestly intrigued as to what you think makes the citation formatting harder to use when in my experience (and in comments I've received up to now) it's been the opposite - it's been a small mission for me to create the best readerly sources section to direct our readers to go to said sources! Kingsif (talk) 21:30, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- Can't speak for RunningTiger123, but I'll chime in with what I was talking about with sources:
- So, usually when you see this kind of split between a short citation linking to a longer full citation, it's because the article is citing a long work, like a book, multiple times for different page numbers. So, having "author, pg. 3", "author, pg. 43", etc. all linking to the single full book citation is helpful, because it means each reference points solely to the page(s) being cited instead of having one book citation like "blah blah pp. 3, 43, 64, etc." where you don't know what was for page 3 and what was for page 43, or the alternative where you have two citations to the same book with the full citation repetitively listed out both times.
- Except, that's not what's going on here. Instead, almost every single citation is used only once- twice in a couple cases. So what you end up with is a "Citations" subsection that's basically superfluous. It's a repetition of the citation, just shorter.
- So, if that's not the use case being solved for here, what other purpose does this split cause? Well, it seems like your goal is to be able to put the full citations into sections, which you wouldn't be able to do otherwise. But... does this matter? Does this help anyone? You've split out the BFI and NYT cites from the "features" and the "news" as "literature", but what source would go in what section is entirely opaque to me and doesn't seem obvious or helpful to readers. And never mind that you have a "web" section like almost every other cite isn't also online. Do readers care what the "genre" of source is? Can they follow what your categorization scheme is here without explanation? I get that you feel that 160+ citations without subsections is hard to read through, but I really doubt anyone actually reads through a citation list. They click a superscripted number and jump straight to the citation they care about, because they want to know what is being cited for a specific fact- the surrounding cites don't matter.
- Additionally, and this may be more an editor thing than a reader thing, the way you have this split means you can't go backwards- for instance, when I saw that IMDB source, I wanted to see what it was being referenced for, but unlike a normal citation section, I can't click a little ^ to go to where it's being used. Instead, I had to see what the author's name was, find it in the "Citations" subsection, and then click there. This is annoying but fine when it's a handful of books being referenced multiple times - I can just look - but when every single citation is like that it's a bit of a slog without ctrl-f. --PresN 23:44, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- All that said, though, these are just my personal opinions here, I'm not speaking as an FLC delegate that it must be changed. The only firm rule on Wikipedia, even at FLC/FAC, is that the citations should be consistently formatted, and beyond that style is up to the editors. So, tl;dr - I don't like it, but it wouldn't stop me from promoting. --PresN 23:48, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- Other comments above. PresN also did a good job describing many of my concerns for the sources. In the end, it just adds a step between hovering over the reference and seeing the full citation for no discernible reason. It's not wrong, it's just more work to create and use it that way. RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:30, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
- It's been a little bit and I haven't seen any updates in the discussion, so I feel I must solidify my !vote as oppose in the list's current state. Kingsif, it's evident that you've put a lot of time and care into this list – it's meticulously researched and referenced. Unfortunately, too much of this list is reliant on end-of-year lists from various critics and websites, and I don't believe that level of detail is notable enough for inclusion (even taking into consideration the lower notability standard for list items at WP:LISTCRIT). In my opinion, this list sets a bad precedent that would open up more popular films to being flooded with hundreds of "best-of" entries that, in the end, are fairly trivial. Also see MOS:FILMCRITICLIST, which seems to advocate for very limited inclusion of such lists if they are even included at all. Obviously, my !vote may be moot when the nomination is closed given the other supports listed here, but I feel clarifying my stance is important. RunningTiger123 (talk) 16:49, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
Comments by Indagate
edit- Mentioned above couple people but the referencing format is bad, hard to follow reference to text
- Also oppose use of the top ten lists per RunningTiger123 above
- First reference is an unverified YouTube channel so think fails WP:RSPYT
- few red link or no link awards, e.g. Catalan Association of Film Criticism and Writing (ACCEC), DiscussingFilm Critics Awards, IndieLisboa. Are they notable? Notablity not inherited from foriegn-language wikipedias.
- Notes should be combined in the notes section, some at end of best of lists section
Thanks, Indagate (talk) 07:46, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
@Kingsif: This article has had outstanding comments/opposes for almost a month, and if there's no replies soon I'm going to have to close this nomination. --PresN 14:20, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
- @PresN: Thanks for the reminder. I've been a mix of busy and distracted for a while, this FLC ran longer than I expected and I wasn't able to give it much attention after that, and have honestly been dedicating what time I can on Wikipedia to content creation rather than tweaking what's already a pretty solid list article. I appreciate all of the comments, including those I haven't been able to address. Since I don't think much will change soon for me re. editing, if you want to close it (to be proposed again later?), that's fine with me. Kingsif (talk) 04:45, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
Okay, since the nominator is unwilling to continue this nomination and there's an unaddressed oppose, I'm going to have to close it. Feel free to renominate it at some point if anything changes. --PresN 19:13, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
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