User talk:Brian Siano

DuncanHill 00:13, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Special effects
Hey, noticed your edits on the article and wanted to say thanks for getting involved. I also wanted to give you a heads up that I reverted your move back to the original page. Wikipedia naming conventions state that articles should be at their most commonly used name (really it should be at "Special effects", but I can't make that move without admin help), and only the first word should be capitalized unless a proper noun.

A larger problem with the article, however, is that it seems to have too much overlap with visual effects, which is where a good portion of the article's content rightly belongs. I don't know if you're interested, but an editor who could look at both articles and effectively resort the content properly would be integral to the long-term development of these articles. In any case, keep up the good work, and look forward to seeing you around! Girolamo Savonarola 19:36, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the nice word. Matter of fact, the redirect to "special visual effects" was intended to smooth over what I was planning next: redirecting the "visual effects" entry. The Discussion areas included pointless arguing over whether "visual effects" and 'special effects" were the same thing. (Conventional use is that they are.) Fact is, the "Special Effects" entry is in decent shape: it explains the term, gives an historical overview, and points readers to the entries on specific techniques. The "Visual Effects" entry is, frankly, not terribly informative, and I think it's misleading in certain ways. So I think a single entry is best.

But the title of this combined article? It seemed to me that it might be a good compromise to use "Special Visual Effects." It's the category used by the Oscars, which made it semi-official, and redirects and also-known-as comments seem to take care of variant names.

But whatever title is finally chosen, I would stress that the current "Special Effects" entry be the basis for the future.

I am interested in getting the entry into really good shape, but I think it's 90% there already. Brian Siano 23:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC)