WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers is aWikiProject dedicated to building comprehensive and detailed articles for actors and filmmakers. Working on providing a greater focus on people in the film industry, the project is an integral part of bothWikiProject Biography andWikiProject Film.
Scope
WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers covers biographical material of individuals involved in the process ofmaking motion pictures, including people in thefilm industry such as actors, directors, crew, and others who may be listed in themotion picture credits of afilm. However perWikipedia:WikiProject Film#Scope, articles in this project should not include the{{WikiProject Film}} banner, as that project does not include articles about actors, directors and filmmakers. Future tagging of bio articles relevant to specific task forces may become a future extension. WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers also does not cover individuals by reason of their participation in episodic programs, such as those covered byWikiProject Television.
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 of issues related to Wikipedia film character articles, including those that may beunder 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 usesTemplate:Infobox person and an image if possible.
The following film-related biographies are classified asFeatured articles, representing the best of Wikipedia. They were not necessarily all improved to featured status by this WikiProject.
The following film personality-related lists are classified asfeatured lists, those representing the best of Wikipedia. They were not necessarily improved to featured status by this WikiProject.
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 leadsentence phrases that bolster a person's status beyond basic descriptions 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 McChord Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an American actor."
Remove unreliable source:filmreference.com from 3,141 pages. The site is currently BLOCKED. You cannot ADD citations. These citations are prior to BLOCK. The site copies iMdb and Wikipedia.
This is aWikiProject advice page onstyle. It contains the advice or opinions of one or moreWikiProjects on how to format and present article content within their area of interest.
Some filmographies are presented in a tabled format; however, you should make sure there is anobvious benefit to table format before creating a table for a filmography (e.g. a relatively short listing of credits for newer actors are better presented in list form, not table form). The following examples reflect current best practice. They allow for sortability andaccessibility for the vision impaired. Titles should have accompanying|data-sort-value="..." elements where appropriate. All names should be referred to as credited, or by common name supported by a reliable source. The notes field should not be allowed to get overly cluttered. Do not addfuture projects until filming has begun as verified by a reliable source. Use of rowspan formatting in "Year" columns (ex. #2) is acceptable, but rowspan formatting should not be used in other columns.
Please note: "Year" columns should be listed first and "Title" columns should be listed second.
Please note: When using separate film and television performances tables (ex. #1),television films belong in the television table.
The year of the film's release date. If the work is a television program, this field also allows for a span of years (ex. 1997–1998 (seeMOS:DATERANGE)).
Title
The title of the work. Always use "Title" as opposed to "Film" or "Series", as the differing works in this field may include items that vary in their medium. Because many titles begin with indefinite and definitearticles (a, an, or the), it is recommended that you specify a sort key for these cells using the|data-sort-value="..." attribute (seeHelp:Sortable tables § Specifying a sort key for a cell for more details); this will allow these titles to be sorted properly, by bypassing the a, an, or the.
Role
The role played by your given subject. It is to be written exactly as it is presented in the credits of the work.
Notes
This field is to include optional, additional information such as medium, episode titles, alternate titles, or awards (when there is no separate "Awards" section in the given article), as well as sourcing if there is not already a separate column for citations. This field is to be rendered "unsortable", as it will contain a variety of information that is not likely to be usefully sortable. Do not list the number of episodes if the role is a starring or major recurring role unless it is sourced. If the role does not cover the entire run of a television program, list the seasons involved instead.
Succession boxes where the succession box relates to the subject's work or notability as an actor are deprecated; seethis discussion, which is summarizedhere. Non-performing succession boxes should be discussed at the appropriate project page.
Per extensive determinations of consensus as summarizedhere, 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. PerWP:FILMNAV filmographies should only be included in navboxes if the individual concerned could be considered a primary creator of the material in question.
MrPanyGoff (talk·contribs) Started working keenly on Bulgarianfilms andactors articles. Would like also to contribute for other films and actors aside of the Bulgarian ones
MasqueIV (talk) 01:53, 02 Jun 2015 (UTC) Mexican film, stage and television actors and directors / Classic Hollywood actresses / Latin American actors / Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
4TheWynne (talk·contribs) I edit the articles of actors targeted for a film, however every once in a blue moon I look at other actors as well.
--IJBall(contribs •talk)23:16, 14 April 2016 (UTC) – Actor bios, esp. television actor bios, from the U.S. and Canada, and occasionally the UK, Ireland, and Aus & NZ, and India, primarily those that need to be promoted from Stub and Start class to C-class (and above?...).[reply]
Rockpeterson (talk·contribs) Can contribute to Bollywood related articles mainly focused to include Marathi Actors as well as Television serials .
Hidden Hills Editor (talk·contribs) Here to dedicate my knowledge and passion for the entertainment industry and film to ensure pages are as comprehensive and detailed as possible.
In order to tag an article as belonging to this project, please use the following syntax to add{{WikiProject Biography}}.{{WikiProject banner shell}} is now used to surround all WikiProject banners and handle commonly-used parameters such as whether the person is currently living or not (blp):
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.
Theinfobox is often the only place in a film article where the editor is noted, butmany 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 theediting = 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 theediting = line is present, enter the name of the editor using the formatediting = [[editor's name]], presuming that including a wikilink is appropriate. Multiple editors are entered using the formatediting = [[editor 1 name]]<br />[[editor 2 name]].
Generallly, supervising and additional editors should not be listed in the infobox; the current rules forOscar nominations for editors exclude them, and there is no consensus regarding the significance of these credits. Occasionally it is appropriate to list these other editors, in which case the editor's listing should be tagged(add) or(sup). ThusJohn Bloom was the supervising editor forUnder Fire (1983), but shared in the nomination for theBAFTA Award for Best Editing.
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 theList of film director and editor collaborations.
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