User:Vanished user 6393699/Writing your first Bollywood GA

This is a hitch-hikers guide for writing a Bollywood film GA. I advise to start right from the beginning, from when production to principal photography starts, as development and shooting location info are hard to find thereafter.

I'll go with the GA Criteria—

As a rule of thumb to satisfy and respect copyright policies avoid copying and pasting text from sources. In most cases text are also copyrighted.
 * Well-written

WP:MOS has 50 articles, which is a deal breaker for a new editor. Read only the important ones, few of them do not apply to some articles. For section arrangement refer to Manual of Style/Layout, avoid peacock and weasel expressions. Restrict your plot to 400-700 words, can be stretched for a 3-hr long film. This would give you a fair idea as to what to cut, mainly the unimportant ones, don't go into too much details, keep the relevant ones. Refer to this article for writing a plot but avoid being an article which has a plot-only along with a lead.

Use references for your content, reliable ones. In case of Indian film articles trust TOI blindly. Most news dailies are WP:RS's, use caution when using local newspaper like a Tamil, Telugu or Bengali ones. Use for references otherwise your sources will not appear and the article will be tagged as WP:UNSOURCED. For those who don't know how to cite, read Help:Referencing for beginners, Citing sources and use templates or ProveIt GT tool for inserting them in articles. Bare or dead URLs, the latter caused by Link rot are frowned upon. Generally few web articles get dead, so its advised to archive them either with WebCite or Archive.is when they are working. Checklinks can be used for detecting dead URLs or potential ones. Don't bomb the article with sub-standard refs as they are distracting to the reader, instead opt for 2-3 reliable ones used with, short ref-names. Boxofficeindia.com is the only reliable source for Box office figures, don't use Koimoi or Bollywood Hungama.
 * Verifiable with no original research

Notice if a point of the article, say for eg where the film was shot, if discussed in reliable sources, include it but you know the shooting location but not covered with RS's then drop the thought of inclusion or it'll qualify as an WP:OR. Don't wander into too much details, moreover if the soundtrack has an independent article, use the template with a short summary from that article.
 * Broad in its coverage

No matter how much you love the lead of the film, maintain a 1:1 ration meaning include negative reviews along with positive ones and avoid WP:PUFFERY and maintain the encyclopaedic tone of the prose avoiding WP:FANCRUFT.
 * Neutral

Try to avoid warring, calmly discuss in a civil manner with the other person even if you are for sure the other one is wrong, remember s/he's opinion matters. Edit warring can toss your GA for a spin, as was in the case of Chennai Express.
 * Stable

Check Commons for free images, if there does not exists one search in Bollywood Hungama and upload them with template. This the primary source for free images pertaining to promotion, events, etc. but not for posters, film sets etc. as they are always copyrighted and need to be uploaded with WP:FUR satisfying WP:NFCC along with a guideline. Poster goes in the infobox, avoid soundtrack covers per WP:MOSFILM in soundtrack sections.
 * Appropriately illustrated