Talk:The French Line

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Orbicle 18:21, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Improving an article does not, in my view, mean completely deleting other contributors' work, (including all the categories) and replacing it with your own. This is akin to vandalism.
 * 2) The infobox does not replace the film description in the opening paragraphs
 * 3) Most of the taglines do not apply to The French Line and would perhaps be better placed in the article on Jane Russell.

Controversy - dance sequence; external link.
The Controversy section includes a link to a YouTube video of the uncensored "Lookin' For Trouble' sequence. The existing link didn't work - the YouTube video had been removed by the user - so I located another video which shows the entire sequence and updated the reference by pasting the entire link which was also on YouTube.

XLinkBot immediately reverted that edit as a standard external link. I was somewhat bemused for several reasons:
 * The external link is bona fide, not a commercial or subscription site, and requires no special software to access it.
 * The video is a necessary support and amplification of the "Controversy" section, and an illustration of mid-20th century movie censorship as a whole.
 * As an uncensored extract, it is unlikely to be found anywhere else quite so easily. So much so that the article states under "Availability" that there is only one known surviving print that includes the uncensored part. Presumably the YouTube video is derived from that?
 * Simply, it is bad practice to revert a working link to one that no longer works.

With those in mind, I copied the internal YouTube reference N_TCVOfARKI0 into the existing (bad) link to make it work.

I hope that the change I made is not reverted. More than one hour later, it is still there. Perhaps it is safe.PårWöet (talk) 07:13, 29 August 2010 (UTC)