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Moving Article

I have moved this article from Palestinian cinema to Cinema of Palestine, but it keeps getting moved back. I would like to request a consensus agreement as to the title of this article.

As a member of WikiProject Films, one of my key aims is to help with the standardisation of film articles. One area where I've done quite a bit of work is in creating and editing the templates and articles that come under the umbrella of World cinema. Along with other contributors, I have attempted to ensure each national cinema article has certain standard elements - such as the World cinema template and a continental cinema template, as well as a standardised title. Standardisation makes it easier for people to find articles, and/or avoids redirects. It also helps continental templates such as the one for West Asian cinema look more appealing as the entries are alphabetised.

There are currently full articles dealing with the cinema of 90 different nations (plus articles on a few sub-national and historical regions). Of the 90, 88 currently have a standardised title "Cinema of ----".

The only exceptions are:

Columbia - as there is no proper Cinema of Columbia article, the templates currently (temporarily) link to List of Colombian films
Palestine - I initially moved this article and cleaned up many links in Wikipedia to avoid redirects. I have moved this article a total of 3 times, and each time User:Shamir1 has moved it back to Palestinan cinema. To quote that user's arguments for reverting my moves:

1st revert: "obvious reasons"
2nd revert: "nothing to keep in line"
3rd revert: "Once again move for one of the most obvious and undisputed reasons on WP, also please review What about article x and http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi)"

Personally, I don't see any "obvious reasons" for keeping this article's title in a non-standard format. I think that there certainly is something "to keep in line" - i.e. standardisation with the other 88 "Cinema of ----" articles. And there is no clarification of what he means by "one of the most obvious and undisputed reasons on WP", unless he means that the reason can be found at the links he has provided, one of which is about deletion debates and the other a seemingly irrelevant link to the BBC news site. I have zero wish to delete this article - my desire when I started working on the World cinema template was to encourage people to assist in the creation of as many national cinema articles as possible. I just believe that giving the article a standardised title would be an improvement.

I would appreciate responses from Shamir1 and anyone else on whether they feel this article should be standardised like all the others or not. If there are valid arguments for keeping a non-standard title and some consensus against moving the article back is reached, I will happily back down. Gram123 13:31, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support move - the WP link he offered does not seem to be relevant, as it discusses whether or not certain articles' existence is valid as an independent page. Hopefully that's not considered an issue here. You might want to also msg Shamir on his talk page, in the interest of fair notice to all parties of this discussion. Girolamo Savonarola 02:54, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're right. I have messaged the user and requested his input. Gram123 14:12, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment, I'll wait for a response from Shamir, but my guess is the reason that we have Cinema of STATE ... and Palestine is not a state. Take for instance Bengali cinema which is a transnational cinema in India and Bangladesh... Cinema of Bengal might have worked since it is from East and West Bengal... but, I just want to show you that we might not exactly have a standardization on sub-state entities. So, I'm not against the move because I don't think it needs to imply state... but, we should standardize. gren グレン 03:57, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, What there is to keep in line is the use of Palestinian XXX rather than Palestine. Please review any news story and you will see that the vast majority (and by vast, I mean vast) do not use the word "Palestine." And yes, of course, Palestine is not a state. If the BBC site got cut off, here it is: http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_6040000/newsid_6044000/6044090.stm#palestine Choosing what to keep in line should not interfere with accuracy. --Shamir1 12:31, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your response. Having read the information at the BBC link, perhaps the article should therefore be renamed Cinema of the Palestinian Territories or Cinema of the Palestinian Land? Gram123 14:50, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- "... of Palestinian territories" would work except that I recall some opposition on the grounds that this cinema is transnational. Tewfik^Talk 23:48, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support Given that we have Cinema of Taiwan, whose status as an independent state is vociferously disputed by China, I don't see why we cannot have Cinema of Palestine. "Palestinian territories" will not work given that Palestinian films are produced by many diaspora Palestinians and Palestinian citizens of Israel. "Cinema of the Palestinian Land" is awkward (it's not land that makes cinema, its the people connected to a land and the name of the land the Palestinians come from is Palestine. Tiamut 23:58, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

10 minutes after I post you show up? Please refrain from Wikistalking. Tewfik^Talk 00:15, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Palestinian cinema is relatively young in comparison to Arab cinema as a whole" why would u say that... there has been palestinian movies since the 1940s... u can't say it was an industry but the fact is that feature and docimentary films were made.... in the 1960s and 1970s there were many documentary films (produced mainly by palestinian parties.... So i don't understand what u mean.. Egypt had a thriving cinema but other arab countries didn't (and doesn't) palestinian movies were made much b4 most arab countries

That's a good point. I'll try to find some reliable sources on the subject and make some changes. You can too though. Just press edit at the top of the page. If you have any useful references you can add them to the page directly or post them here. Tiamut 22:21, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]