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Contents 1 Sixth Sense is not horror 2 1920 3 Rewrite desperately needed 4 Link to the "Bibliography of Fantastic Film"

[edit] Sixth Sense is not horror

I deleted the Sixth Sense blurb because its a psychological thriller, not a horror no matter how much people delude themselves. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.86.81.80 (talk) 07:53, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

I think it is. --Gman124 ^talk 03:02, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] 1920

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[edit] Rewrite desperately needed

This is a horrible article, full of commercials and fan-like accolades; highly opinionated, it lacks objectivity and should be rewritten completely or deleted altogether. Also, the present tense, not the past, should be used in writing of even "old" movies, as they remain artistic artifacts which can, and are, written and spoken of (and filmed) in the present. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.215.28.14 (talk) 18:49, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

I'd be willing to take some of it on. I think a restructure would help with clarity. I'll give it some consideration. I just finished a project on the horror genre and I feel like I got a good overview.Sugarcoma (talk) 00:37, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

I've long used Wikipedia as a resource, and feel I can contribute to certain subjects, so I'm creating a draft for a new version of this page. I have several scholarly and popular source materials that can be used as direct citations. However, being new to the editing side of things, I'm wondering if it is appropriate to re-organize and re-write an entry top to bottom without prior input from other editors. I know that aggressive (bold?) editing is encouraged among users, but it seems to me prior consensus would be useful before an overhaul is actually posted. Any suggestions? Also, after researching "fair use" criteria as it applies to Wikipedia, I'm still utterly confused as to what defines a "free" or "fair-use" image. Radio London (talk) 21:03, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Agreed this is horrible. How could you not mention Silence of the Lambs in the 90s? Or Misery? Both films won academy awards for cripes sakes!155.95.80.253 (talk) 15:03, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Link to the "Bibliography of Fantastic Film"

Dear users/participants of Wikipedia

I have recently added links at the Wikipedia horror film, science fiction film and fantasy film pages which refer to the "Bibliography of Fantastic Film", an international bibliography of the secondary literature on fantastic film focusing on horror, science fiction, fantasy and experimental film. The administrator User_talk:Ckatz has deleted these links several times arguing that Wikipedia is not a compilation of links, that a link to the "Bibliography of Fantastic film is advertisement/spam and violates the rules of Wikipedia, and that I am not allowed to promote a site which I'm involved in as an author. A strange argumentation: not the quality of a linked site matters, but the author/contributor. Finally Ckatz commended me to find another editor to set a link to my bibliography. That suits me fine because I think (as I told the administrator previously) that it should be the decision of the Wikipedia users and not of a single person wether a link to a free scholary bibliography on the topic of the related Wikipedia article is relevant or not. So, following the suggestion of Ckatz, I request You, the users of Wikipedia interested in fantastic film, to check out the "Bibliography of Fantastic Film" and decide by yourself wether it is relevant for a Wikipedia link or not. If yes, please feel free to ad a link to my Bibliography by your own. If You want to send me a message You can use the discussion page of my Wiki username User_talk:Athenaion or email directly to Holger.Schnell@gmx.net.

I have copied this text to the discussion site of the horror, science fiction and fantasy articles of the English Wikipedia. You can also find it at my own Athenaion discussion site. Thanks for Your attention.

--Athenaion (talk) 10:09, 29 September 2009 (UTC)