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Proposed deletion of Shooting Star (film distributor)

Hello FinixFighter, I was unable to find significant independent coverage of Shooting Star (film distributor) so it seems that the subject may not be notable enough for a Wikipedia article yet. I have therefore proposed the article for deletion. If you disagree with that or are otherwise opposed to the article's deletion in any way, you should edit the page and remove the deletion tag from the page. You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. – Thjarkur (talk) 12:48, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

You can see Wikipedia's notability guidelines, notability can be demonstrated by citing multiple reliable sources that discuss the topic in some detail. – Thjarkur (talk) 12:48, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Short descriptions

Hello, FinixFighter. Thank you for your edits, wherein you add short descriptions to articles (some of which I've seen on my watchlist). Could I ask you to please pay attention to the capitalization? The guidance at WP:HOWTOSD tells us to begin each entry with a capital letter, so, e.g., it would be Fishing tool instead of fishing tool at Spoon lure. Thanks, and happy editing. — JohnFromPinckney (talk) 02:58, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

@JohnFromPinckney Thank you for the suggestion! I initially used capital letters, then the Wikipedia app (which I use for adding short descriptions) started to display me a warning about capital letters, that's why I was not using them anymore. But I'll use capital letters again now, thanks for your suggestion! User:FinixFighter 09:18, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

It seems the software tools are not always so well coordinated. I just saw a discussion somewhere about how one tool (a bot, I think) was changing the template to (capital "S") while another tool was determined to use (small "s"), and they were just stepping on each others' toes. (They've resolved to both using "Short", BTW.) Best regards,— JohnFromPinckney (talk) 09:57, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Bookdealer

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Draft:Bookdealer

Hi. I've moved this article to draft, where you can work on adding a claim of notability before submitting for review. Deb (talk) 08:32, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Ansley Watches (July 4)

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List of stop motion films question

Hi, I saw your edit "This film is already present int the "live-action with stop motion features films" list" under the List of stop motion movies article and you're right, it is already in that category, but. I would argue that The New Gulliver is a stop motion movie with some (maybe 20%) live action sequences rather than a live action movie with stop motion sequences. Even the Wikipedia article for the movie describes it as a "Soviet stop motion-animated cartoon". I would like to hear you opinion regarding this topic.HotSpoto (talk) 17:14, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi! You're right, it's hard to decide such a thing and I had doubts myself in the past. My personal conclusion was that, generally, a person would use the main list (stop-motion feature) in order to search for films which are only stop-motion. Hence a film with a live-action sequence, even if not predominant in the film, would go in the live-action features. Anyway the main problem is always about where the limit is, since there are actually stop-motion features with live-action sequences of some seconds or minutes, maybe in the initial part of the film. What should we do in these cases? That's quite hard to decide. However, I don't know this particular film, but maybe you're right and we could move it in the stop-motion film if, as you said, the live action sequences are around 20% of it. FinixFighter (talk) 19:05, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I will watch the movie right now and calculate a somewhat precise estimate of the live action sequences over the length of the whole movie. I will edit this reply when I'm finished. Initial live action sequence: from 0:00:00 to 0:15:44. Few seconds of live action scenes are present throughout the movie (they amount to maybe 10 to 15 minutes). Final live action sequence: from 1:10:57 to 1:12:49. A rough 32 minutes are live action, hence the percentage of live action over movie length is about 45% (way off my initial estimate). I leave you the decision on which section to put this movie. Thank you for your time. HotSpoto (talk) 15:54, 26 March 2024 (UTC)