Talk:List of French films of 1994

Sourcing

@Cavarrone: and @Andrzejbanas: I see some edit warring here. Admittedly I do find it excessive to source every line and every film. It makes it look unsightly and cluttered. I'd rather one source at the top of every list with a list of films by year or a link to imdb or something. I know imdb isn't formally considered an RS but I really don't think every entry needs to be sourced and Cavarrone is right to revert.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:57, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

We need to cite them, because each film is talking about specific information:

1. The release date
2. The countries of production
3. The genre

These all require citations. That's why we need specific citations. Look at featured articles on lists on wikipedia and they have cited individual parts. Andrzejbanas (talk) 14:00, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

They're not intended to be featured lists though are they?♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:11, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

All articles are intended to reach the quality of a featured article. Andrzejbanas (talk) 15:13, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Sourcing or not, you shouldn't be reverting Cavarrone's additions to the list purely because it didn't have a source. Add a citation needed tag instead. There's precious few working on these lists as it is.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:30, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Time to dig out the old standby.

I can NOT emphasize this enough. There seems to be a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of random speculative 'I heard it somewhere' pseudo information is to be tagged with a 'needs a cite' tag. Wrong. It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced. This is true of all information...

–Jimmy Wales

Andrzejbanas (talk) 16:36, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

What a laughable, bad faith use of a citation, there is no "random speculative 'I heard it somewhere' pseudo information" here, just a bluelink item added to a standard list of films-per-year, an item which clearly respected the inclusion criterium of being a "French films of 1994" and which was sourced (including director, genre, actors and all the technical data you want) to both the references here listed as external links (no mention the article itself includes several addition sources). There was and there is no reason to challenge it. Yours is just an obvious case of ownership and patent lack of common sense. Cavarrone 19:25, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

I'd appreciate if you acted WP:CIVIL. I don't think I own an article, but I do think you should follow WP:RS, not just add a cast, genre, year of release and other material that's not as obvious as 1+1. Laugh all you want, but I like articles cited. Feel free to keep adding uncited material, I'll be happy to revert it. Andrzejbanas (talk) 11:59, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

No, it is an obvious 1+1 for everyone here except you! The same 1+1 which rules all the similar "List of Italian films" or "List of American films" since the dawn of time. And your keeping on stating I added uncited material is nothing else than a desperate, blatant lie. I was more than civil considering your hostile disruptiveness and your casting aspersions against regular, experienced editors... however next time I will be happy to add a useless link to the same Cinema-francais website here listed as EL just to avoid to hear further aspersions from your mouth. Bye. Cavarrone 12:24, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

What makes the Cinema-francais site notable? It appears to be a fansite. Andrzejbanas (talk) 12:58, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

There's plenty of American and other film lists which have many films without citations. They seem to get by OK. OTHERSTUFFEXISTS I'm expecting you to retort with. Removing any known legitimate film of a given year is bad faith. By all means add a citation needed tag but Jimbo's "rule" here looks silly. Our previous encounters Andrzejbanas have been positive ones (I hope it stays that way), and I appreciate all the work that you've done with these lists. But removing a film added just because it needs a citation is counterproductive to their purpose. By all means get consensus at WP:FILM that all entries MUST have a citation for every one if you must but as far as I'm aware there is no policy which says every film in a list must have a citation. Above all what I don't want is editors like Cavarrone who are doing an extremely valuable job film building and adding films to the lists giving up on adding them to the lists because they get reverted.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:08, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

No it's cool, I just am so used to people adding genres, etc. whatever because "oh it's obvious!" that it's natural to revert for now. It's not hard to look up a film quickly on BFI, Allmovie, or several of the other ones. For the record, I've added citations to all the French films lists from the 1960s and 1970s. I'm slowly working my way up. It's been useful because some films (especially bizarre multi-co-productions) are really hard to pin point a release date on. I've added a cite, just don't assume an external link at the bottom of a page is going to make things last. I'll try to find sources for things first before removing them. Andrzejbanas (talk) 19:16, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

I've been meaning to fill out and start some of the older French films. A few weeks back I went through and added the links to imdb. I've been meaning to do the same for US and others.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:08, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

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