Talk:John Barnes (film producer)

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 29 January 2019 and 7 May 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): SJCribbs.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 23:26, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Review by Maddy
You have a good start, and I think expanding on your outline is the main thing to work on. You've mentioned Encyclopedia Brittanica Films, and I think you could go into the history of those films (where/why they started), and also talk about some of the other educational film production companies, so the reader understands that this is not a singular thing. Although this page isn't for EB, I think you could talk about the social implications of these films as well. I think the biography section could borrow from your lead a little bit, and the lead could be more about his life as a filmmaker. Mmddyyyyy (talk) 16:27, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

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This is a good start and you have a lot of information. Your lead should also reference his early work in radio, and other sponsored films, and suggest that he came to prominence with this work for Encyclopedia Britannica Films. To deepen some of your discussion, you might also consider Geoff Alexander's book on Academic Filmmaking and various discussions of Barnes' individual films (how they were used, where they were seen, etc).AmyDeer (talk) 22:20, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

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Nice job! Only a few minor edits or suggestions for moving forward.

I really like your intro, I think it's nice, concise, and highlights the most notable achievements. I do think it could be useful to include more citations, as Wikipedia values citing pretty much everything.

For the Biography section:

It seems the section is a little bit light. Is there more information about his background or personal life that would be relevant to his career / development as a filmmaker? I also wonder if you could combine the last two sentences (death/age), and then you would also have one cited sentence (obviously that's a bit nitpicky).

For the Career section:

Could you expand upon the radio series (even as much as including the title of the series)? I also wonder if you could expand on the Shaw v Shakespeare pieces (since they are considered the magnum opus, they seem too important to just mention). Maybe you could give these works their own section, like you did with the Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Also, there is something that seems grammatically off about the last sentence of the section, which begins "Later, Barnes moved away from..." I think you meant to say "some of which were produced" or simply "which were produced"

For the Encyclopaedia Brittanica section:

I think there is something grammatically off with the first sentence of the second paragraph (which begins "His Oscar nominated documentary..."). It seems incomplete. Maybe it's as simple as adding "was about urban issues."

I think you used the table effectively! Overall, I think you're close to the mark, it's just as simple as editing some of your sentence structures and adding some more information when available. Keep up the good work! Ehenricks (talk) 22:29, 4 March 2019 (UTC)