Talk:InterACT Disability Arts Festival

Text case for the festival's name

I just wanted to confirm whether this should be title case or sentence case? The name of the sandbox (as with the eventual home of the page in the Main namespace) is rendered in sentence case, as per WP:MOS. However, the name of the festival is properly called the "InterACT Disability Arts Festival", which is obviously a disability arts festival (lowercase). The name could be abbreviated to just "InterACT", which is a disability arts festival (lowercase). In such an instance it would thereby be appropriate to call it the InterACT disability arts festival. Help, I'm confused already! :) AugurNZ ✐⌕ 21:01, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

As it is a proper name it will be title case. It shouldn't be "InterACT" because AIUI that is the name of the organisation that runs the event, not the event itself. What do the organisers call it? Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:09, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Establishing notability

I was just looking for other disability arts festivals elsewhere in the world to compare against, when I came across the DaDaFest page, which is currently under threat of deletion for lacking notability. This is a good benchmark for me, as I can now see just how much work our article is going to need, if even that other much more extensive page is considered to be deficient. The rollbacker who challenged the DaDaFest page suggested that they work on their article in a sandbox instead, so I think we're all good here for now, but it will take a while before we'll be ready to move the InterACT page into the Main namespace. AugurNZ ✐⌕ 22:55, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

The tag on DaDaFest is IMHO unjustified - there are a reasonable number of mainstream press references - so I removed it. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:20, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Email sent to the festival organizers

I have just sent the following email to the festival organizers, via the webform on their website.

Hi team,

My name is [redacted] of Henderson, Auckland, but most people know me by my preferred nickname, "Augur", and my username on Wikipedia is AugurNZ. I am a Wikipedian and a member of the WikiProject Disability. I have started creating a page on the free encyclopedia about the InterACT Disability Arts Festival. I attended the festival last year as a spectator, and I am coming along again to this year's event. I live just up the road from the Corban Estate Arts Centre.

Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit". You are invited to participate in the creation of the page about the InterACT Disability Arts Festival. Please be aware that there are, however, rules on Wikipedia about "Conflict of Interest", "Personal Promotion", "No Original Research", "Reliable Secondary Sources", etc. As a member of the general public, and in no way affiliated with the InterACT festival or the Interacting Theatre Company, my only stake in this is as a "disinterested third party" who happens to enjoy attending your festival. For that reason, I would suggest that, any contributions to the InterACT Disability Arts Festival page on Wikipedia made by participants / officials of InterACT or Interacting Theatre, should be made only to the talk page of the article, and integrated into the article itself by other volunteer Wikipedians.

As I mentioned above, I am coming along to the festival again this year as a spectator. I will be bringing along my digital camera, and I would like to obtain permission to photograph freely during the event, in the knowledge that such photographs I take may be published on Wikipedia and on Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikipedia.org). These photos would all be licensed with a permissive Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license, allowing for re-use (including commercial use), and the creation of derivative works, as per Wikipedia's licensing guidelines (see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing for details). The images would be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons where you are welcome to use them for any other promotional activities. I'm not a professional photographer myself, and you are welcome to have a say in which images get uploaded, for public consumption. I understand that some participants at the festival may not want their likeness used in public in any way, so I am happy to have the photos vetted first before publication.

Looking forward to the festival next month. Keep up the great work team!

Kind regards,

Augur.

(ps. This email itself will be published on the InterACT Disability Arts Festival talk page.)

I gave the link to the sandboxed article in a textbox on the webform. AugurNZ ✐⌕ 22:16, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Sections to be created for each year

The following are suggestions for expanding the article with details about each year of the festival. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:21, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

2011

"Welsh Stories Go Well Down Under | Partners' News". Shape Arts. Retrieved 2013-09-20.

Talia Blewitt. "InterACT 2011 not any old arty-farty get together - Story - NZ News". 3 News. Retrieved 2013-09-20.

Becky Ward (2011-10-28). "Silky smooth aerial moves - Life & Leisure - The Aucklander News". Nzherald.co.nz. Retrieved 2013-09-20.

Nicola Murphy (2011-10-20). "Interactive Festival features disabled performers". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 2013-09-20.

Arts Access Aotearoa (2011-10-11). "InterACT Festival". The Big Idea - Te Aria Nui. Retrieved 2013-09-20.

Arts Access Aotearoa (2011-10-03). "InterACT Festival to take centre stage | Scoop News". Scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 2013-09-20.

2012

"2012 Disability Arts Festival". Stewart-rehab.org.nz. 2012-11-14. Retrieved 2013-09-20.

2013

The article mentions the 2013 edition as "upcoming". Find news material about it and update accordingly.