User talk:Bobbyandbeans
Hello,
I saw your plot tag on the above movie and having spent the afternoon watching the movie, I reduced the plot substantially taking out plot bloats etc. Would appreciate it if you could take a once over and just see if I have crossed my t's and dotted my i's.
Thank you! :)
MisterShiney (Come say hi) 17:28, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
Bullitt plot section edits
Greetings, user Bobbyandbeans. I see (after making considerable edits to the Bullitt page one end to the other you are avidly patroling movie pages with overlong plot sections, adding tags and cutting them down to fit under 700 words. Do understand that the 700 word "limit" is a suggestion, a yardstick, not an iron rule. Half or so the edits I made to Bullitt's plot section were general clean-up of sentence structure and such, the other half small additions in content to make otherwise unclear or insufficiently developed plot points appropriately so. I have since found they bring the section to 717 words. I'd appreciate your understanding the above and not mincing the effort.
Where articles are needlessly or grossly beyond the suggested plot section size keep up the good work. Yours, Wikiuser100 (talk) 16:30, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
- First, I am not "patroling" anything; when I visit a movie page for info and find the plot section too long, I tag it. I don't have time to "patrol" anything on Wiki. Second, WP:FILMPLOT states: "Plot summaries for feature films should be between 400 and 700 words. The summary should not exceed the range unless the film's structure is unconventional, such as Pulp Fiction's non-linear storyline, or unless the plot is too complicated to summarize in this range. (Discuss with other editors to determine if a summary cannot be contained within the proper range.)" While I completely agree that some films cannot be summarized this easily, I would hardly think Bullitt is "unconventional" or "too complicated." For example, in your recent edit, you state in the last line, "After taking off his gun and placing it on a table he looks at himself in the bathroom mirror and seems troubled by what he sees looking back at him." How is the taking off of the gun and placing it on the table important to the plot of the story? Why is this a vital bit of information viewers need to know? You also seem to be overly descriptive, with a "protracted, highly dangerous" car chase (aren't all car chases dangerous?) that ends in a "fiery crash." None of these descriptive words are vital and they contribute to the plot summary being overly wordy. Rather than instructing me on what changes I (or anyone else) should or should not do on Wikipedia, I suggest you open a discussion on the Talk page and get input from other editors as to why you feel your edits are necessary and reach a concensus for the page.Bobbyandbeans (talk) 17:23, 10 November 2012 (UTC)