Talk:List of Samuel L. Jackson performances

Sortable table

...is much better. Please leave this obvious improvement in place and stop the tedious editwarring, thanks! Verbal chat 12:00, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Unsortable by director name

Hey Jack, I'd actually considered changing the directors' names to this format Alda, Alan so they can be sorted in alphabetical order of surname, but I didn't know how to deal with the cases where there were two or more directors. Reyk _YO! 00:56, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

At first I thought you ment go see the article, not last, first ;) An thanks, Jack Merridew 01:48, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

There is a way to specify what to sort by independent of how the cell content is presented. The help pages aren't that helpful for sortable tables, but I'll see if I can find that one. Yes, Help:Sorting is still a mess, but helpful in parts. I tend to look at featured lists and assume they are using the best methods and copy that. See how the name columns are sorted in lists such as List of Nobel laureates. The template used, it seems, is {{sortname}}, which may be what you are looking for. When there is more than one director, you would need to consistently apply some rule for sorting. Carcharoth (talk) 01:18, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Oh, this has a talk page ;)

This seems stable as sortable and hopefully it will stick on at least a few pages. Once we have closure, improving the format of things for improved usefulness can be address. As an fyi, I happen on George Cukor#Filmography and noticed that is was not using rowspan, and the "sortable"-light went 'ding' ;) That's where my efforts in this direction began. I've just made the year-cells into headers, too. They *are* the headers for the contents of each row; Livie likes, this too. I also just noticed that there are two loose films below the table and am thinking someone added them there due to being but off by the sea of table markup. I'm also an advocate of bulleted lists for filmographies, which is per MOS: WP:Filmographies; the examples are lists, even if the articles linked to have been changed to tables per whomever's POV. Cheers, Jack Merridew 01:48, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

When I created the article, I used a table that was similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger filmography, which is a featured list. It was not sortable, and followed the format that is prefered by Wikipedia:ACTOR#Filmography_tables. I am not pushing to go with any specific format, just giving some background as to why the article was set up the way it is.--kelapstick (talk) 02:38, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi. I'd not looked that far back. I don't see that you did anything wrong, other than follow poor advice. WP:ACTOR is at odds with the MOS:

• WP:Deviations

  In general, styles for tables and other block-level elements should be set using CSS classes, not with inline style attributes.

It's part of: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (accessibility)

This is the core of all this. WP:TABLE doesn't specifically require sortability, but sortability is a feature that was long asked for and is useful in a lot of cases. If someone wishes to look up a film and they don't know the year, they can sort by title. We build this thing for the readers, for the world, for posterity. Sorting is not compatible with rowspans on the years; rowspan is also an awkward complexity that a lot of people have trouble with; it's an impediment to editors who are less skilled. I see, and fix, these things most every day.

I see the Govenator's page is a mess; invalid code, at odds with the MOS; it does have a splash of colour in it, though; which is a non-standard deviation from the MOS.

Cheers, Jack Merridew 03:12, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

If you did a survey and asked people whether they constructed tables from scratch, or copied the nearest one they could find, I wonder what the results would be? Part of the problem with accessibility and having a manual of style is that people don't find table coding accessible (in the sense of understanding it) and think they can copy tables from elsewhere. But until tables are easier to code, I will continue copying tables from elsewhere. Maybe some table code validator is needed to run over the whole of Wikipedia, which would put notices on talk pages (having a bot change all tables to conform might make Wikipedia implode). And I actually find sortability less useful than you might think. I certainly don't use it the way you describe: If someone wishes to look up a film and they don't know the year - I would use Ctl-F and search for the text of the title. I use sortability to look at lists in different orders, not to find things. Carcharoth (talk) 04:28, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Assuming every one told the truth, I'm pretty sure we would find that most simply copy something and then adjust it; this is a very common pattern in a lot of context. People instinctively fall back on rote processes, especially in the absence of specific knowledge. Table, and all manner of non-trivial markup, are impediments to editing for most users; most experienced editor, too. I breathe this stuff; before about five years ago, I would commonly build website that used table for most of the layout; table inside of table, going down to about six levels of nesting and using just lots of rowspans and colspans. Using raw html, mind you, not wikitext. Repeat this across several hundred pages on a site, and You've got a major issue when you want to change things. Sometimes templating systems, server-side inclusion (which is akin to our transclusion), or the dynamic generation of the rote code can help, but it's all a huge heap of work. With the proliferation of modern browsers such as Mozilla, Opera and Safari, this has changed. Chrome is a variant of Safari, and even the crap browsers from Microsoft play better, recently. CSS is *the* mechanism for presentational styling. This means that even when a table-like appearance is desired, it can be achieve with other structural underpinnings than explicit markup. This entails advanced CSS, and may not be something the wiki is quite ready for. Mebbe, next month ;)

Validator bots of the nature you describe are certainly in our future, and they will be able to automatically fix a lot of things, as they are developed to robust levels. The stuff they can't reliable fix, they can emit to-do lists for editors to attend to by more manual means.

The Usability Initiative is looking at means to improve the tools available to ordinary editors with the intent of making it much easier to generate things like tables; and they may devise mechanisms for maintaining them, too. I've used such tools in non-wiki contexts, and they are complex, far from perfect, and often produce a sea of nasty markup that users are blithely unaware of due the their insulation for the realities of the code by the tools. For this reason, I'm pretty skeptical of the future of WYSIWYG editors for wikis. You can try some of this out over on Wikia:, now; the results are quite mixed.

I use 'find', of course, as do a fair number of users. But typical browser-users are not doing this sort of thing. Most users on any sort of computing system fail to use most of the features on-offer. Lots of usability studies have shown this. Cheers, Jack Merridew 21:27, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

I've made this sortable by the last name of the director by using {{sortname}}. There are a few with more than one name given, and a few with no name given. and these need looking into. I also reverted User:Bencey, who had reverted back to an unsortable version; seems to have missed all the fuss. Anyway, I left Bencey a note. Cheers, Jack Merridew 21:03, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Resurrecting the Champ

In this film, Jackson does not reprise Bob Satterfield but Tommy Kincaid although it's said in most of the film he's Satterfield. 1969 (talk) 02:16, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Accolades

Can Samuel L. Jackson's awards and nominations be on this page? The ones from Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown aren't the only ones... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lacon432 (talk • contribs) 14:52, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

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This article is a mess

I'm posting here to note that this article is a mess in its current form. First, the use of the 'colspan' "era" column headers in the 'Film' table is, 1) very non-standard, and 2) breaks sortability of the table. (I also note that this exact kind of thing is discouraged as per WP:DTT.) Second, actor Filmography tables should not contain a 'Director' column like this (that kind of info is completely extraneous in an actor's Filmography – if people want to know the film's director, there's a link right there to the movie's article...). Third, it looks like the other table (e.g. the 'Television' one) uses 'rowspan' in a way that is not WP:ACCESSIBILITY-compliant.

Long-story short, this article needs a pretty substantial overhaul. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 16:43, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

 Done by Ebyabe. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 19:28, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

I Am Not Your Negro

He narrated "I Am Not Your Negro"

Kingsman: The Golden Circle Archive Footage

Would it be worth mentioning that archive footage of Samuel L. Jackson in Kingsman: The Secret Service is used in Kingsman: The Golden Circle?The Editor 155 (talk) 19:04, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Capital One (COF) commercials

Are commercials not applicable for a filmography?72.174.74.133 (talk) 22:05, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Captain Marvel de-aged?

In Clark Gregg's Filmography, there are extra notes regarding his role in Captain Marvel (Agent Coulson) as "Digitally de-aged", should the same be applied to Jackson's Captain Marvel role (Nick Fury) as well? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Battlealvin2009 (talk • contribs) 13:32, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Missing film in filmography

The filmography section is missing the movie against the wall from 1994. It’s on HBO if u need to check or whatever but he plays Jamaal X. 24.246.130.110 (talk) 17:05, 14 January 2023 (UTC)