WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers is a WikiProject dedicated to building comprehensive and detailed articles for actors and other filmmakers. Working to provide a greater focus on people in the film industry, the project is an integral part of both WikiProject Biography and WikiProject Films.
Scope
WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers covers biographical material of individuals involved in the process of making motion pictures, including people in the film industry such as the actors, directors, crew, and others who may be listed in the motion picture credits of a film. WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers does not cover individuals by reason of their participation in episodic programs such as those covered by WikiProject 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 for issues related to Wikipedia film character articles, including those that may be under 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 uses Template:Infobox person and an image if possible. Please try to place the infobox in all film bio articles.
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 lead sentence phrases that bolster a person's status beyond basic descriptions covering career 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 Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer.
Project style recommendations
Filmography tables
Some filmographies are presented in a tabled format. The following examples reflect current best practice. They allow for sortability, ease of editing, and accessibility for the vision impaired. Titles should be invoked via {{sortname}}, where appropriate. The notes field should not be allowed to get overly cluttered.
Succession boxes where the succession box relates to the subject's work or notability as an actor are deprecated; see this discussion, which is summarized here. Non-performing succession boxes should be discussed at the appropriate project page.
Filmography navbox templates
Per extensive determinations of consensus as summarized here, 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.
Razzie Award templates
Per consensus as summarized here, templates for recipients of Razzie Awards will not be used on articles under the provenance of this project.
Resources
Resources provides a guide to finding information for sourcing articles, whether through online/print sources or members' personal libraries.
Participants
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{{Infobox person
| name =
| image =
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
| birth_place =
| death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} Death date then birth -->
| death_place =
| other_names =
| occupation = [[Actor]]
| years_active =
| spouse =
| partner =
| website = <!-- {{URL|www.example.com}} -->
}}
Please see {{infobox person}} for information of parameters of the infobox.
Articles
Featured articles
The following film-related biographies are classified as featured articles, those representing the best of Wikipedia. They were not necessarily improved to featured status by this WikiProject.
The following film-related lists are classified as featured lists, those representing the best of Wikipedia. They were not necessarily improved to featured status by this WikiProject.
A-Class articles, while not as rigorously reviewed as featured articles, are nevertheless considered to provide a well-written and complete treatment of the topic; they pass through a review process within the project before being selected.
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.
Current collaborations
Goals
Develop a format for writing the career of a screenwriter.
The infobox is often the only place in a film article where the editor is noted, but many 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 the editing = 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 the editing = line is present, enter the name of the editor using the format editing = [[editor's name]], presuming that including a wikilink is appropriate. Multiple editors are entered using the format editing = [[editor 1 name]]<br />[[editor 2 name]].
Generallly, supervising and additional editors should not be listed in the infobox; the current rules for Oscar 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). Thus John Bloom was the supervising editor for Under Fire (1983), but shared in the nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing.
Film editing: directors and editors
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 the List of film director and editor collaborations.
