User talk:Hamiltonstone/Archive 10

Hi! Congratulations on the article!

The reason that I removed the description of him as "young Aboriginal" is because the context of the article tells us he was indigenous Australian (in the first sentence) so it doesn't need repeating. We also are told at what date/age he enlisted for Korea.

With regards to alt descriptions, I fought quite a long battle to get people's names included, instead virtually meaningless and pointless descriptions such as "man in black suit and white shirt facing left". The page advisory page has been entirely rewritten, using most of my suggestions. (I'm an art historian and have written museum educational material for the vision impaired.)

Sometimes a detailed description is really useful, but all that is needed here is a statement that the picture represents Steve Dodd in uniform. The addition of the slouch hat and the smile adds to the word picture. Restating that he is Aboriginal doesn't.

The other option is to include a really solid description of the man's appearance e.g. "Steve Dod in military uniform. He is a slim handsome Aboriginal man with deep set eyes, very dark skin and a broad smile which shows large teeth." Although words like "handsome" are regarded as POV in the regular text, I do not hesitate to use them in alt descriptions, if it adds to the concept. in this case, because the man is an actor, the fact that he was a handsome young man is relevant.

Concerning the critical comment by some critic about the stereotyped aboriginal tracker in Little Boy Lost, the film was based very closely on the facts. I remember the incident well. It was customary to call in black trackers. The criticism is really quite stupid, and I would drop it, simply because it's not in line with the facts. If an aboriginal tracker had not been shown, then there would have been a real problem.