Template:Did you know nominations/Electrick Children


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:13, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Electrick Children

 * ... that Rebecca Thomas wrote and directed Electrick Children, a film with a budget of US$1 million, while she was still a university student? Source: "Thomas wrote the screenplay for Electrick Children after her second year at the Columbia University School of the Arts" "Writer/Director Rebecca Thomas (4th year Directing) has been nominated for the 19th Annual Someone To Watch Award for her film Electrick Children", US$1 million budget
 * ALT1 ... that Rebecca Thomas wrote and directed Electrick Children while she was still a university student?
 * Reviewed: Guizhou Plateau broadleaf and mixed forests

Improved to Good Article status by 97198 (talk). Self-nominated at 12:39, 14 October 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg The article was promoted to Good Article status at 03:54, 12 October 2017 (UTC), satisfying eligibility criteria per rule 1g. It is a substantial article, at just over 9500 bytes, and was nominated three days after achieving GA. Per WP:MOSFILM, the plot is briefly explained and does not require references, though one would be appreciated for the sentence "When she falls pregnant, she is convinced that she has conceived miraculously, like the Virgin Mary, through the medium of the cassette." (I'm sure this was stated in several of the current refs.) There is one dead ref - it is currently listed as ref 18 (Electrick Children at Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts). I'll assume good faith for this one, but can you find an archive copy and link it. I think that "grossing a total of $137,126" may be wrong; you've added the opening weekend and total gross amounts, but I think only the latter represents the film's foreign income. (That is, total gross includes opening weekend.) Hook is of reasonable length and has citations, though I think it would be better to shorten it by omitting the detail about the budget, for example as "...that Rebecca Thomas wrote and directed Electrick Children while she was still a university student?" (You can of course leave it as is, if you prefer.) Mind  matrix  21:19, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I forgot to mention above that QPQ has been completed. Mind  matrix  21:25, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the comments. I've added an archived URL for the dead link. You seem to misunderstand the box office gross though; no information seems to be available on the film's gross in the U.S., so the article states "grossing a total of $137,126 outside of the U.S.". The total figure is a sum of the total gross in each country listed here (the opening weekend column is irrelevant). As far as the hook goes, I included the film's budget to make it more interesting – as I understand it, many film students write and direct films while they are studying but almost never with such a large budget. Nevertheless, I've added your suggestion above as ALT1. 97198 (talk) 12:46, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg It appears that when I loaded the Box office Mojo site yesterday, the text "United Kingdom" was covered, so I assumed the last line was a "total"and I expected to see $99,779 in the article; anyway, yes, that was my mistake. Thanks for the archive link - I've now verified the rest of the text in the article. I'm OK with the original hook (I hadn't considered the aspect about a student having a $1 million budget). Good to go for original hook. Mind  matrix  13:24, 16 October 2017 (UTC)