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Soundtrack album split

I have undone an improperly done WP:SPLIT of the soundtrack section. There has been no discussion about this and no consensus to do a split at this time. Also there is no significant coverage in reliable independent sources about the soundtrack album (trivial listings only), and the album hasn't charted so WP:NALBUM is not met. WP:TOOSOON for split. Geraldo Perez (talk) 21:14, 2 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've reverted another split attempt made by the same IP [1][2]. At this point I agree it's too soon for a split. No ranking of the album on the Billboard 200 right now - might change in the next couple of weeks, since the album was just released, so will reevaluate when/if it appears on that chart (or another appropriate record chart from outside the US). MPFitz1968 (talk) 21:08, 22 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Uma is "Uma"

The character's name is "Uma". The fact that she was called "Shrimpy" in a couple of throwaway lines of dialogue is basically "trivia", and should not be included as a character "name" in the 'Cast' section. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 05:54, 22 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Why can't ratings be sourced from Deadline?

There are a few users who added the premiere rating for the movie, sourcing from this Deadline article. However, these changes were reverted as the ratings are not considered to be "final numbers". Deadline is classified under the WikiProject Television/FAQ page as a reliable source. I appreciate the editors striving for accuracy for the article, but I would like to clarify why can't this Deadline article be used as a source since Wikipedia considers Deadline to be reliable? ~ Appleseed w (talk) 02:13, 23 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Deadline is a perfectly reliable source to use. We use it all the time to source when a series has been renewed for another season. However, we currently only have the preliminary numbers for ABC, and that's why we're waiting for the final numbers on Monday. ABC is a broadcast network, and broadcast networks work a little differently than cable/satellite networks, and that's why numbers change between the preliminaries and finals. For example, they pretty much rely solely on ratings for their revenue while cable/satellite networks don't as they not only get revenue from ratings, but also from the people's subscriptions. To demonstrate, look at the preliminaries for Thursday here—click on the chart to see the whole chart as it's being obscured by the comments sidebar—and compare the numbers there to the finals here. Notice how the numbers changed. The final numbers is all we really care about. Amaury (talk | contribs) 02:19, 23 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that makes sense! (forgot to say earlier) ~ Appleseed w (talk) 13:49, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

To follow up here, the preliminary vs. final ratings for this film on ABC, in particular, were substantially different. Also, Disney's press release over the weekend that claimed "13 million total viewers" for the film was based on preliminary ratings, and was completely off-target (or, at least, was highly misleading) – the final total ratings across all 6 networks was only 8.9 million, not 13 million. So there's little upside to using preliminary ratings – it's better to wait for the "final" ratings reports after a few days. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 14:16, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 1 August 2017

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After 6 months not several 2A02:C7D:BBA1:D900:E531:8540:8DA:D3F6 (talk) 21:43, 1 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]