Talk:List of Hindi films of 2017

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Sincerely,

Aceing_Winter_Snows_Harsh_Cold (talk) 03:47, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

SACHIN MOVIE
Sachin movie releasing on 14 April 2017 please add this V99991111 (talk) 11:17, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
 * - ❌ - Please provide reliable sources. See WP:ICTF. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:02, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Upcoming movies in 2017
Add 4 August 2017 Secret Superstar Musical Drama   cast :Zaira Wasim, Special appearance:Aamir Khan                                    and also add  22 December 2017 Dutt Biopic  Rajkumar Hirani  Cast  Ranbir Kapoor       Aditi Rao Hydari V99991111 (talk) 05:03, 3 February 2017 (UTC)       ref www.moviesboxofficecollection.com >upcoming movies in 2017


 * - ❌ - Please provide reliable sources. See WP:ICTF. I don't know what moviesboxofficecollection is, but a reliable source it is not. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:04, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Upcoming movies in 2017
Please add Secret Superstar movie release 4/08/2017 reference:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Superstar V99991111 (talk) 12:46, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

correct it please
Where is raees ? And also gross income of all the movies do not match with the income as shown in their own pages on Wikipedia..... Vikram9055 (talk) 11:51, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Top 10 list
In this edit I removed the Top 10 list for a few reasons: Thanks. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:37, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) In previous years, discussions seemed to favor the exclusion of the data, for instance at Talk:List of Bollywood films of 2014. A wider discussion should take place for if and how to best incorporate this data, perhaps at WT:ICTF.
 * 2) The table creates inconsistencies across articles. Ex: Raees was semi-protected because of pervasive financial vandalism. The gross there is 304 crore. The gross here was 290.45 crore. That's just not acceptable.
 * 3) Much of the data is based on Koimoi.com, which is not considered reliable per WP:ICTF. (PK was stable at about 792 crore for about a year, how did it suddenly jump to 831.50 in 2017?. Is it still running?)
 * 4) Some of the values are based on articles reporting gross values, rather than basing the table on articles reporting "Highest grossing Bollywood films of 2017". This is an important distinction. By focusing on gross values, we are shifting the burden to the reader to disprove the ranking. In order for the reader to verify the data, they would have to be privy to all the Bollywood film financial figures for that year, which is impossible. As an example, show me proof that Hindi Medium was the 7th highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2017, as opposed to being ranked 6th or 9th. The ranking burden should rest on the shoulders of our reliable secondary sources, and they should tabulate the results and publish them as a ranked "Top 10 highest-grossing Bollywood films of 2017" article. This is especially true when Indian film financials are so laden with inaccuracies and influenced by corrupt figures, and when even reliable sources must make proprietary estimates that are often inconsistent with other sources. How is it Wikipedia's place to act as a data aggregator and create definitive ranked lists from cherrypicked data? "Hmm, I like Hungama's take on Naam Shabana's gross, so I'll use that figure rather than IBT's." Anyhow, while Koimoi at least does the ranking, it's still not considered reliable by the community.

In this edit I removed the content again, because the IPv6 editor who restored it did not pariticipate in the discussion. Though the list is no longer laden with Koimoi references, it's still problematic that Wikipedia is basically inventing a ranking for these films based on selected gross values. As previously argued, this shifts the verification burden to the reader to disprove the ranking. How does a reader prove that there was no film ranked between Hindi Medium (₹95.59 crore) and Kaabil (₹147.52 crore)? It seems to me that the only suitable way to verify that Hindi Medium was #6 and Kaabil was #5 is if a reliable source published a "Top 10 highest-grossing Bollywood films of 2017" article. Barring that, the list is untrustworthy and Wikipedia is not in the business of fabricating its own film ranking system. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:29, 9 June 2017 (UTC)


 * I agree with removing the chart, or at least the ranks. In truth you could probably leave the chart in without the ranks, but obviously the ranks need to be sourced. It reminds me a bit of the problem at List_of_highest-grossing_films. If you look at that list you will notice every chart bar one is labelled the "highest-grossing..." whereas the year chart is labelled "high-grossing...". The reason for this is that in the case of some of the earlier years we couldn't say for certain which film was the highest-grossing. We had a pretty good idea but we couldn't actually source the claim so the language had to reflect that. This is basically the same kind of thing. There is nothing to prevent you listing very successful films and their earnings but you need to avoid making factual claims you can't substantiate. Betty Logan (talk) 02:14, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

baahubali 2
Why baahubali 2 is missing from this list? Vikram138740 (talk) 06:10, 24 December 2017 (UTC)


 * It's a Tollywood film, not a Bollywood film. Maestro2016 (talk) 10:09, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

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