Talk:White Nights (disambiguation)

Starting cleanup

    There's too much Dab-CU needed to get by with a single pass. The following blatant faults are fixed in one edit:

   Requires primary-topic Dab'n format. (& BTW, it didn't seem worth trying to patch up the overly detailed

*White Nights, the time near the summer solstice in polar latitudes, when the midnight sun (polar day) is visible.

since the only purpose of having anything beyond the link is to clarify which sense the lk applies to, not to define nor much less to explain.)

    Neither the French phrase, the quasi-French one, nor "all-nighter" appears in the article Sleep deprivation (where "all-nighter" Rdrs), and in fact 3 years has passed since we deleted, as unworthy, the article of that title, without anyone offering up any replacement. An entry similar to

*Sometimes the French phrase nuit blanche (or, incorrectly, nuit blanc) is used in English to mean a night spent awake, see all-nighter.

would also require an explanation of how someone who knew only a French phrase for the concept could arrive at the accompanying Dab page, or why mention of the French phrase would facilitate Dab'n for anyone who had looked for the concept in WP via the name "white night" (as getting to the Dab would imply).

   Everything in the former section "Festival" except the 1st entry is inadmissible on the Dab page in question, even if it might be adaptable for use in something like List of "White Night" festivals of List of all-night arts festivals. (I don't have time to work on such a page right now; i'm too busy fixing abuse of the Dab-page guidelines on the Dab page in question.) So these are removed:

* Nuit blanche, an all-night cultural festival, recently established in cities worldwide under this or other names

**Light Night, Open Night, Long Night, etc. are examples in English

**Notte Bianca and cognate phrases in other Romance languages

The remaining entry from that section is probably appropriate where i've placed it among the See-also entries.

   The following entry is inadmissible until the Farsi film has encyclopedic info in the English WP, exceeding the following content:

** شبهای روشن (Bright Nights), a 2003 Iranian film adaptation by Farzad Mo'tamen with a different ending

(I am not sure i have correctly repaired the formerly apparently broken Farsi markup in the entry, which is evidenced by the alternating edit-pane rendering of what looked in that pane like an accent mark surmounting either an o or a single-quote mark -- which of these depending apparently on the parity of the character count on the page bearing that markup! -- appearing inside the parens. Removing a character or two there seems to have cleaned it up.)

   I moved to this talk page

** Saawariya, a 2007 Indian film based on the story

bcz neither that article nor the IMDb page even hints that it's ever called "White Nights". Perhaps it deserves an entry on a List of works derived from Dostoyevsky's "White Nights". I had a good reason for not starting such a list just now; i fergit now what it was....

    The remaining entries may also deserve individual scrutiny of the articles to determine whether the descriptions here of the respective topics are accurate, and even whether the articles themselves should exist. In particular, i derived

* White Nights, style of art festival a.k.a. nuit blanche

from the clearly unacceptable entry

* Nuit blanche, an all-night cultural festival, recently established in cities worldwide under this or other names

but that article's supposed identification of a unified phenomenon worthy of an article (as opposed, perhaps, to a List of all-night arts festivals) appears to be OR at best, and probably inaccurate.
--Jerzy•t 07:10, 5 July 2010 (UTC)