Talk:Avengers: Endgame

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 13:47, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

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• ... that Avengers: Endgame was filmed under the working title Mary Lou 2 from August 10, 2017 to January 11, 2018? Source: [1][2][3][4]
  • ALT1:... that Avengers: Endgame was filmed from August 10, 2017 to January 11, 2018 under the working title Mary Lou 2? Source: [5][6][7][8]
  • ALT2:... that before becoming the highest-grossing film of all time, Avengers: Endgame was filmed under the working title Mary Lou 2? Source: [9][10]

• Alt 3: ... that Avengers: Endgame was untitled until December 2018, as its title was considered a spoiler for the film and its predecessor, Avengers: Infinity War?

Improved to Good Article status by Some Dude From North Carolina (talk). Self-nominated at 00:53, 26 November 2020 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New Enough: Y Long Enough: Y

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Y Neutral: Y Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: Y

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Y Interesting: Y

QPQ: None required.

Overall: ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 16:37, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

• Comment That isn't a very "hooky" hook, especially for this film. CAPTAIN MEDUSA please reconsider the following:
  • Alt 2: ... that Avengers: Endgame is the highest grossing film of all time?
  • Alt 3: ... that Avengers: Endgame was untitled until December 2018, as its title was considered a spoiler for the film and its predecessor, Avengers: Infinity War?

- Favre1fan93 (talk) 16:07, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

• @Favre1fan93: I have added an "alt" similar to your suggestions. Some Dude From North Carolina^{wanna talk?} 02:21, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

• Approving Favre1fan93's alt hooks. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 12:51, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

• @Some Dude From North Carolina: The whole point of my alts were to move away from the production link and the working title because you're giving more weight to that info than actual Endgame info. The production link/working title is not "hooky". You're second alt keeps that. I suggest you strikethrough your's and use either of mine, both of which Captain Medusa approved of. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 14:25, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

• @Favre1fan93: I have done as asked. Some Dude From North Carolina^{wanna talk?} 15:38, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

• Great. Let's go with ALT 3 then. It is definitely the best hook. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 22:14, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

(Plot) Setting year

I feel it’s appropriate and important to set the year the film takes place, considering throughout the plot line there are constant references to the years 2012, 2013 and 2014, where the Avengers travel to, and characters referenced by their year, to differentiate from their present selves (ie 2014 Thanos). In this circumstance, would it make more sense to start the plot with “in 2018”, or include “in 2023” after the five year time jump. AlienChex (talk) 03:13, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Mis-lead (pun intended) on "becoming the highest-grossing film of all time"

@Toa Nidhiki05: would you please elaborate on your "not how this works" comment here: Special:Diff/1015496792? To all contributors, any other ideas on good ways to clarify that "becoming the highest-grossing film of all time" is intended to convey that it was the peak position and not the current position? Without additional clarification it is conveying information to the reader in a misleading manner, and only once the reader gets all the way to the Reception would the reader realize what is actually being said. That doesn't seem like a GA lead if it can't summarize without context of the rest of the article (and it could be seen as having a non-neutral spin). -2pou (talk) 20:51, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Perhaps appending "from July 2019 until March 2021" would work. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 16:58, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Or "the then-highest grossing film of all time"? I feel like adding the dates as a qualifier makes the sentence a tad too long, and may need additional changes further down the line should it ever be re-released and (once again) top Avatar. -- JascaDucato (talk | contributions) 13:57, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

I'm not in support of this, because "highest-grossing film of all time" should remain as is to note that that is what was obtained, even if it isn't current. That's why I suggested the date addition. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 17:58, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

I think I support the date method as well. It isn't too overbearing, and it simply states the facts. A reader doesn't need to read further unless interested in finding out why an end date is listed. If another leapfrog happens, the article would need updating in the body, and presumably the lead would still need to be updated in the latter method as well (i.e. "the then-highest grossing film of all time"). It's not likely that no update would be needed in any case. -2pou (talk) 16:17, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Dates added in. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 17:08, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 May 2021

172.98.149.73 (talk) 00:23, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Please let me edit

 Not done: this is not the right page to request additional user rights. You may reopen this request with the specific changes to be made and someone will add them for you, or if you have an account, you can wait until you are autoconfirmed and edit the page yourself. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 00:53, 11 May 2021 (UTC)