Talk:The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)
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FA in need of review
This is a 2007 FA promotion that needs to be checked against current FA standards. Problems:
- Do we need all those character actors listed? We have more than 40 names there, most of them are not notable;
- There are several unsourced sentences in the text;
- This is a blog, is it a reliable source?
- The article needs significant citation clean-up, several of the citations don't mention the author or the publisher or a page range.
Article needs work to rise to current FA standards. RetiredDuke (talk) 23:00, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
- Addressed all those. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:47, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
Warren 1979
- https://archive.org/download/warren-lord-of-rings/warren-special_edition_lord_of_the_rings_1979_06.pdf —PaleoNeonate – 19:52, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
- Added as a ref. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:08, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
- Nice, I wasn't sure if it would be usable at all for the article, but since it's a rare find and related to the movie I wanted to make sure others knew about it. Even more rare are non-English LOTR comic adaptations illustrated by Luis Bermejo, even references to them are few (i.e. http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/985-Tolkien-Comics.php )... Thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 13:44, 3 June 2021 (UTC)]
- Good work! Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:47, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
- Nice, I wasn't sure if it would be usable at all for the article, but since it's a rare find and related to the movie I wanted to make sure others knew about it. Even more rare are non-English LOTR comic adaptations illustrated by
- Added as a ref. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:08, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
Bakshi wasn't contacted before the Jackson film
This fact is mentioned so often, at some point I thought it was like a running joke. This clearly needs some copy editing. I am not saying this is unimportant, it and his reactions shows a lot. I just think it is mentioned far too often.--91.64.37.225 (talk) 10:03, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
- It's only put like that once, and it does not dominate the article. If you have specific suggestions for copy-editing, feel free to state them here. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:26, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
reasons for deleting additions
On 9 January, User:Chiswick Chap reverted a small addition by an anonymous editor to the section on differences between the film and book that read `Legolas meeting the hobbits and Aragorn as they travel to Rivendell is a substitution for the character Glorfindel who likewise does not appear in the film.' The grounds for reversion were that it was an uncited addition.
I don't understand how this stated reason was consistent with policy.
JCBradfield (talk) 13:28, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- Deriving such a statement from watching the film and reading the book would require making inferences about the differences, something we're not allowed to do under the original research rules. Such a claim would therefore have to be supported by a reliable source. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:12, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you for the reply. However, you have not addressed my queries: (1) the differences between plots are no different from a plot summary, (2) the appropriate response to an unsourced claim is to tag it (if dubious, which this isn't) or source it yourself, not to delete it. Morever, WP:ORis about drawing unsourced conclusions, or other analysis and synthesis. With regard to verifiable facts, it says
- Thank you for the reply. However, you have not addressed my queries: (1) the differences between plots are no different from a plot summary, (2) the appropriate response to an unsourced claim is to tag it (if dubious, which this isn't) or source it yourself, not to delete it. Morever,
The prohibition against original research means that all material added to articles must be attributable to a reliable, published source, even if not actually attributed.
—WP:OR
- So is it the (easily verifiable) observation of the difference that you objected to, or is the use of the word `substitution', which you understand as imputing a motivation to Bakshi, rather than being a description of a simple verifiable observation that Legolas(film) performs actions done by Glorfindel in the book? (The reason I'm curious about this is that countless Wikipedia pages, particularly in maths and the sciences, have vast amounts of common knowledge, or even rather specialized knowledge, without explicit citation, and that the dispute here (which I came across because I saw the other editor ranting about it) seems a far more stringent interpretation of OR than I see anywhere else. As a very occasional editor, I like to learn from more active editors how things work here.) JCBradfield (talk) 17:22, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- WP:FACR to see the specific criteria, but suffice to say that every sentence is expected to be comprehensively sourced and anything that even faintly smells of WP:OR or WP:SYNTH will be removed. I'll also add that even in a world where this wasn't a featured article, articles about fictional properties like this tend to attract editors who want to add their own favorite factoid to the article. Over time this bloats those articles and so it's extremely common for experienced editors to revert those kinds of additions immediately, even given what you said about WP:NOCITE allowing for tags instead of removal. Alyo (chat·edits) 17:52, 13 February 2022 (UTC)]
- Alyo Thank you, that's helpful. Though I still don't understand why plot summaries can be magicked out of nowhere! JCBradfield (talk) 16:16, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- So is it the (easily verifiable) observation of the difference that you objected to, or is the use of the word `substitution', which you understand as imputing a motivation to Bakshi, rather than being a description of a simple verifiable observation that Legolas(film) performs actions done by Glorfindel in the book? (The reason I'm curious about this is that countless Wikipedia pages, particularly in maths and the sciences, have vast amounts of common knowledge, or even rather specialized knowledge, without explicit citation, and that the dispute here (which I came across because I saw the other editor ranting about it) seems a far more stringent interpretation of OR than I see anywhere else. As a very occasional editor, I like to learn from more active editors how things work here.) JCBradfield (talk) 17:22, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
extensive documentation about that movie by folding ideas
I'm not used to english and customs of how to add to a page in wikipedia, but I would like to someone to add a link to
Folding Ideas - An Exhaustive History of Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr_rb_pitHk — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.249.123.29 (talk) 17:03, 17 July 2022 (UTC)