Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Works by Andrei Tarkovsky/archive1

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The list was archived by PresN via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 23 August 2023 (UTC) [1].

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Works by Andrei Tarkovsky

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• Featured list candidates/Works by Andrei Tarkovsky/archive1

Nominator(s): ~ HAL333 21:49, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

Tarkovsky is a director quite unlike any other. His fellow countrymen—the Soviets—denounced his works as too "Western", which is far from accurate. You could argue that Tarkovsky is quintessentially Russian, from the same philosophical stock as Fyodor Dostoevsky, but in the end, I think, Tarkovsky and his stunning works are sui generis. ~ HAL333 21:49, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

Comments

• "In his thirty-year career, Tarkovsky directed several student films, seven feature films" => "In his thirty-year career, Tarkovsky directed several student films and seven feature films" (as you use a fresh verb after the next comma)
• "His first feature film was 1961's Ivan's Childhood," - the table says 1962
• "His final film produced in the Soviet Union, Stalker (1979) garnered" => "His final film produced in the Soviet Union, Stalker (1979), garnered"
• "His final film The Sacrifice (1986) was" => "His final film, The Sacrifice (1986), was"
• "The ruins of the 13-century Abbey of San Galgano were used in the filming of Nostalghia (1983)." - source?
• "Mug shot of Tarkovsky at the Latina Refugee Camp, Italy 1985" - I realise the subject of this article is his works, not his life story, but to drop a bombshell like the fact that in 1985 he was in a refugee camp into an image caption without context is a little jarring. Could you just add a few words to explain why he was there?
• That's what I got :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:56, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

  'Preciate the comments. All addressed. ~ HAL333 15:58, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

• Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:44, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
• Support -- Umarxon III (talk) 18:08, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
• Support --金色黎明 (talk) 09:30, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Comments from MyCatIsAChonk

Thanks for your review on Stravinsky, happy to review this!

• Template:Use dmy dates should be added to the top, so the ISO dates in some refs are converted to the proper formatting like the rest. Also suggest adding Template:Use American English, or whichever is appropriate.
• Ref 5's publication is currently the name of the article; it should be "Open Culture". Also, the date should be in DMY format to match the rest of the refs.
• Ref 7's publisher should be placed under "Name of publication" so it's italicized; also, it should not be linked because the publishers of other refs are unlinked.
• Ref 10 is missing name of publication.

Very good work on this article! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 22:20, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Ping for @HAL333. MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 15:16, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. All fixed. ~ HAL333 15:46, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Support. MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 17:14, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

FOARP

• Is Letterboxd a suitable source? Based on a quick review it appears to be a mirror of sorts of IMDB, which hosts user-generated content.
• Open Culture is a fairly borderline source. Maybe consider whether a better one than it can be found.
• I'm hazy on Rotten Tomatoes as a source for this information, but the RT page for the film Mirror has high-quality sources listed as reviewing it so it might be better to rely on them?
• Other than the above points, looks good. In as much as I can check the licensing info on the photos they are OK. FOARP (talk) 08:11, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Comments

General question

• Why was the scope of this list extended to all of Tarkovsky's works and not only his films? If it deals with everything that AT has done, why is it needed and what does it bring that the main article does not have? (It's a real question, not a judgement).

Missing

• His Polaroids (some having been published in a book with a text by Guerra) are not mentioned (Other section or Bibliography)
• Nor are his Diaries (Bibliography)

Lead Section

• His films are considered Romanticist: this statement, if it stays, calls for some serious further qualification.
• He also directed a stage play and wrote a book. sounds a bit simple in its phrasing and might even sound inaccurate. He wrote more than one book (see above). Maybe explain why he worked so little in the field of dramatic art. And see above for the published books (posthumously, maybe explain why). Tarkovsky’s body of work should have been much more substantial if he had been able to produce what he really wanted to. This should be mentioned, I think, at least briefly.

Illustration

• I am also, I confess, not totally convinced by the images chosen. Some are already on the main article and do not seem very necessary here. They are relatively numerous compared to the volume of the text and not exactly what one would expect in a list of works. I personally would prefer no image at all and rather more detail of the works than images developing an aspect of the said works than is not mentioned in the text.

Sources

• FOARP mentions Rotten Tomatoes, LetterBoxd and Open Culture above. I think they might be an issue, specially when so many high-quality sources about Tarkovsky exist.

Titles

• Original titles (and their transliterations) should, in my view, appear, as they used to. In many ways, the page looked more comprehensive in 2008 than it does now. Why? I'm asking this because stability is one of the 6 criteria for feature content.

-MY, OH MY! (mushy yank) 21:07, 2 July 2023 (UTC) (edited July, 3; July, 12) P.S.- Not that this affects directly my assessment of the nomination but I'm sorry, I cannot understand why 2 YouTube videos that are very likely copyright violations appear in the presentation nomination. I, for one, would be grateful if those 2 links could be removed as soon as possible.. Thank you! (July, 2)

Comments

• "Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) was a Soviet filmmaker who is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors of all time." ---> "Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) was a Soviet filmmaker widely regarded as one of the greatest directors of all time."
• "Viewing Tarkovsky as a dissident, Soviet authorities shut down the production after only a few performances." ---> "Viewing Tarkovsky as a dissident, Soviet authorities shut down the production after a few performances."

Otherwise, great stuff. I disagree, however, that he is one of the best filmmakers of all time, despite the greatness of Solaris. --TheUzbek (talk) 12:48, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Source review – Pending

Will do soon. Aza24 (talk) 14:58, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Formatting

• The open culture ref appears to be written by Mike Springer (scroll to the bottom)
• Otherwise looks good

Reliability

• I'm not sure about the reliability of Letterboxd for WP purposes. Is there perhaps a better source(s) available?

Verifiability

• Is there a link of anykind to Time and the Film Aesthetics of Andrei Tarkovsky?
• One spotcheck issue.
  • ref 17 doesn't say give 1985 as the publication year
  • Other spotchecks revealed no issues. Aza24 (talk) 15:08, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

  Courtesy ping to @HAL333 Aza24 (talk) 17:55, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Accessibility review (MOS:DTAB)

• Tables need column scopes for all column header cells, which in combination with row scopes lets screen reader software accurately determine and read out the headers for each cell of a data table. You have these, but: the column sub-headers, like Director, are messed up. Instead of ! |Director!! | Writer, it should be !scope=col | Director and !scope=col | Writer, on two lines. Also, if the cell spans multiple columns with a colspan, then use !scope=colgroup instead.
• You're good on row scopes, but consider if maybe the "primary" column for each row (as noted by the row scope) should be the first column rather than the second.
• Please see MOS:DTAB for example table code if this isn't clear. I don't return to these reviews until the nomination is ready to close, so ping me if you have any questions. --PresN 18:08, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

• Image review – All of the images used appear to have appropriate free licenses. While this may not be strictly required, it would be nice to see alt text with the images, as that would help accessibility along with Pres' comments. Giants2008 (Talk) 21:51, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

@HAL333: Are you still pursuing this nomination? It appears no comments since June have been addressed. --PresN 15:43, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Hi PresN, I apologize but I woulc like to withdraw this nomination. Time has got the best of me — I'll work on it and renominate it in the near future. ~ HAL333 17:41, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

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