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The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by Giants2008 00:07, 29 October 2011 [1].

David O. Selznick filmography

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Nominator(s): Jimknut (talk) 16:54, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because David O. Selznick is one of the great pioneers in cinema history and therefore warrants an excellent filmography page. I have already produced FL filmographies of Gene Kelly, Charlie Chaplin, and Mary Pickford and have used my experience to create this one. I believe it meets all the needed critia and is ready — or almost ready — for FL status. Please leave some feedback if you can. Jimknut (talk) 16:54, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support I peer reviewed this and all of my fairly minor concerns were addressed there. I just re-read the article and (aside for a typo I corrected) found it to meet the FLC criteria. Nicely done and thanks for an interesting article, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 04:17, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from Giants2008 (27 and counting) 18:07, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comments –
  • Early shorts: "Afterwards he convinced the Mineralava Beauty Clay Company to produced a two-reel film...". "produced" → "produce".
  • David O. Selznick Productions: Since United Artists was linked in the last prose section, another link really isn't needed here.
  • Footnote 4 should give the page number in the pp. format, not p., since there's more than one page being cited.
  • Footnote 23 has a pp. that should be p., as a single-page cite.
  • Footnote 35 should have the publisher italicized, because it's a newspaper (printed publication).
  • Footnote 43 is inconsistent with the other Academy references since it has The in front of the publisher. I'd imagine the publisher should be consistent for all of those cites, and the easiest fix is just to remove The from that cite. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 01:51, 8 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Can't say that I'm too familiar with filmographies on Wikipedia, but I've had a look over this article, and it seems to meet WP:WIAFL by my estimation. My only concern would be that it might be better to spell out numbers in full when they're next to initialisms, i.e. "twenty RKO" rather than "20 RKO" (which sounds like some kind of robot or something). But then, this is only a personal preference, and not something that I would oppose over. I was also going to mention the use of italics for the quotations, but I see that this issue has already been raised at the peer review. Anyway, great job! A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 13:55, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the support! Your suggestion about "20 RKO" is a good one so I did indeed change it to "twenty RKO". Too bad Isaac Asimov is no longer living; "20 RKO" sound like a good title for one of his robot stories. Jimknut (talk) 17:12, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 07:03, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • Five paras in the lead seems a little too much, perhaps think of merging down a bit to hit four.
    • The first two paragraphs have been merged.
  • "He is perhaps most notable as the producer of the 1939 epic Gone With the Wind." this needs citation or else it's just WP:OR.
    • Link to NY Times obit.
  • "Migrating to Hollywood ..." is that _really_ a "migration"?
    • Changed to "moved"
  • " into the sound era" think of non-experts here, what's the "sound era"?
  • "and developed Katharine Hepburn and Myrna Loy into major film stars" single-handedly or did he "help to develop..." them?
    • Changed
  • "of literary favourites with" - bit tabloidy for me.
    • Changed
  • [10][11][12][13][14][9] -> can you order these numerically?
    • Reordered
  • " from Mr. Behlmer's book" no need for "Mr." here, this is an encyclopaedia.
    • Changed
  • "David O. Selznick began working in"... just "Selznick began.." is fine since he is the subject of the list.
    • Changed
  • Worth linking "Silent" for non-experts.
  • "The 12 films listed below "... I count 13?
    • Oops! Changed
  • Lots of relinking, e.g. MGM, Duel in the Sun, is there a strategy here or is it haphazard?
    • Reduced relinking
  • "travelling" -> traveling if you're USEng, right?
    • Changed
  • "Of the 68 features that David O. Selznick" again, no need to repeat David O. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:18, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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