User talk:CarpenterAnna

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Cinema du Reel edits
Hello, I undid your edit to Cinéma du Réel. Please take some time to read some of out policies and guidelines that I've linked above. There are a lot, and I don't expect you to read it all (!) but it's worth taking some time to get familiar with how we write articles. Your change to the article was quite big and introduced a few problems. It's very important that the tone of the article is completely neutral and not promotional in any way. Language like "an annual renowned event that puts together a large and faithful audience, curious about documentary cinema and paying attention to its evolution", although not too promotional is not really in an encyclopedic tone. Can I take it from previous edits to the article that you are affiliated with Cinéma du Réel? That's not necessarily a problem, but editing about subjects you are personally or professionally involved with is generally discouraged as it is very difficult to remain completely neutral. Please see Conflict of interest for more on this.

You edit also changed the style of the article. We have an in-house manual of style which we try to stick to as much as possible, to keep articles consistent with each other. The manual of style is very large, and again, no one would expect you to get to know it all straight away, but you might be interested in reading about article layout. For example, we don't link to external sites in the main part of the text, we have those as 'references" or "external links" if necessary, but we don't link the first words in the article to an external site. We also use boldface very selectively, usually only for the first occurrence of the subject name/title, although there may be a few other exceptions. There is not need to make bold "Cinéma du réel" every time it occurs, and no need to make subheadings bold. Don't worry if this is all too much information, I'm just trying to explain some of the reasons I "reverted" your change.

Your change also removed some references to secondary sources. I haven't looked too closely at those references, it may be that some better ones can be found, but one thing the article needs much more of is references to reliable sources that are independent of Cinéma du Réel itself. Articles should not just rely on official websites. I know this is a lot of information, I hope some of it helps. Please ask here, or at my talkpage if you have any questions. You can also make any suggestions for changes to the article at Talk:Cinéma du Réel, which is the talkpage just for that article. That is especially recommended if you are professionally involved with the festival.-- Beloved Freak  13:04, 5 January 2011 (UTC)