User talk:Omar Sharieff

Welcome![edit]

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Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that you made a change to an article, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 08:07, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Genre bloat[edit]

Hi there, re: this, please don't add bloated genres like "supernatural romantic comedy thriller". Per community consensus, you should use one main genre, and one sub-genre if a sub-genre is warranted, it should be sourced, and it should represent what most reliable sources call it. Genre is subjective, and we're not here to promote editors' personal evaluations. If most sources call it a comedy, then go with that. If most sources call it a romantic comedy, or a thriller, then go with one of those. Using four descriptors is unjustifiable and it only makes the introductory sentence very hard to navigate. Thank you. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 23:20, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

November 2016[edit]

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Ekkadiki Pothavu Chinnavada, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Diff: [1] Cyphoidbomb (talk) 02:12, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Unsourced genre[edit]

Hi there, re: this, please don't submit unsourced genres. Genres are subjective and it's rather problematic when everybody has their own opinion about how a film should be classified. Per MOS:FILM: "The lead section should ... identify the following elements: the title of the film, the year of its public release, and the primary genre or sub-genre under which it is verifiably classified." And typically, we only care about what most sources would describe a film as--we don't pick and choose bits from one site and then tack them onto bits from another site. Also, I've never heard of a "romantic comedy-drama" as a genre. I've heard of romance films. I've heard of romantic comedies. I've heard of comedy-dramas. "Romantic comedy-drama" sounds like a mash-up of several different genre. Anyhow, I'm deleting the genre until you can adequately source it. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:35, 12 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding unsourced genre.[2][3][4] What sources are calling American Made a "biographical crime comedy"? What sources are calling Sivaji a "vigilante masala film"? What sources call Duvvada Jagannadham a "vigilante action comedy"? If the answer is "no sources", then you should not be making these changes. As noted above, we care what most sources describe the film as, not what you personally describe the film as and we should be sticking to established genres. "Biographical crime comedy" is not an established genre. "Vigilante masala" is not an established genre. Even if you can source some aspect of the addition, the entire descrption needs to be sourced. So simply finding a site that describes Sivaji as a vigilante film, and finding a site that describes Sivaji as a masala film, then cobbling them together into "vigilante masala" is not sufficient, as this represents synthesis. Our references must describe the film wholly as a "vigilante masala" to be included. Note that genre warring will not be tolerated. Any more unsourced genres will result in an interruption of your editing privileges. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 14:58, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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