Talk:Stanley Donen

Images needed
I think this article needs: A good portrait of Donen, a still from On the Town from the opening scene (possibly the RCA building or central park), and better stills for Funny Face, 7 Brides and maybe Charade.--206.188.55.235 (talk) 02:04, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Assessment
I have assessed this article as a C-class article, because it contains a lot of content. However, I have some concerns. Substantially all of the information appears to have come from one source. This often presents copyright issues. Also, note that the article is rather sloppy and needs extensive proofreading to eliminate the numerous typos, stray punctuation, etc. Indeed, it is a bit suspicious that the content is so sloppy yet basically well-written, which makes me think that it may be close paraphrasing from the source. Please see WP:PARAPHRASE. -- Ssilvers (talk) 02:07, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

With all due respect, that made me laugh out loud and remember my grade school teachers bafflement at my good grades and horrendous spelling. It is not plagarized from the source, I have taken the basic information and some of the ideas and put them in my own words. I'm sure that anyone who got a copy of the book I am using would see that. I also have terrible penmanship, and mustard stains on my current shirt.--206.188.55.235 (talk) 02:22, 13 October 2011 (UTC) I'm done with this page now, but your appreciation for the hours I spent on it is duely noted.--206.188.55.235 (talk) 02:47, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Golden Raspberry award
I've removed a reference to Donen getting a "Golden Raspuberry" spoof award for one of his films. My edit summary said that there was a longstanding consensus that such awards don't appear in biographical articles, but that was based on a discussion in Wikiproject Films that hasn't quite ended. Now I'm not so sure that there has been such a consensus. However, I don't believe that it belongs in this article unless this parody award is mentioned in a secondary source. Otherwise it becomes unsourced negatve material, and not really suitable for a living person. Coretheapple (talk) 12:54, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

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Suggestion
For those doing such great work on cleaning up this page over the past few days, the Filmography and awards of Stanley Donen page has two unsourced awards that I've been having trouble tracking down. It might be nice to clean that page up, expand it and try to get FL status.--Phibesfan (talk) 21:32, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Stanley Donen
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Stanley Donen's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "allmovie": From Christopher McQuarrie:  From Filmography and awards of Stanley Donen:  From George Kennedy:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 17:38, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Singin' in the rain section
I find this particular section, while important to the article, doesn't seem to really focus enough on the article's subject - Donen. I'm going to hold off on live edit of this section and noodle it a bit more, but will circle back on it. It's just confusing to tell what Donan did and it's importance based on the way this part is written. I think a BLP should focus on the subject primarily, and this section focuses on the film itself, rather than Donen's role in it. I added the template to connect the main article of the film.  Tennis Anyone? Talk  15:36, 4 April 2022 (UTC)