User talk:Deane Shafortock

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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
Please provide more cites and clean up the text. Bearian (talk) 20:19, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

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Carrie (2002 film)
Please stop trying to readd the excessively long plot summary to this article. It is nearly 2000 words when at most it should be 400-700. We do not do blow-by-blow plot summaries in articles, nor should an film article's contents consist of nearly 95% plot summary. Your continued attempts to put back the summary, both logged in and not, are inappropriate and go against the Film article MOS. Collectonian (talk) 13:29, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello, I have to agree with Collectonian. If you read the style guidelines on how to write a plot summary, it says: "Plot summaries should be between 400 and 700 words and should not exceed 900 words unless there is a specific reason such as a very complicated plot."  Being 2,000 words in length is very excessive.  We want to provide a summary of the film's events to put the rest of the article in context.  If people want to know everything that takes place in a film, they have the opportunity to see it for themselves (which is more engaging than reading prose, in my opinion).  Can I suggest trying to rewrite the 2,000 words into a shorter summary that would be between 400 and 700 words?  It may take some time, but I think that this middle ground would quell any issues between editors. — Erik  (talk • contrib) - 13:34, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for rewriting the plot to bring it down in size. That is better, however it is still at 1400+ words, so it needs to be about half the current length. Do you want to try shortening it some more? Collectonian (talk) 19:06, 4 April 2008 (UTC)


 * As noted, the plot is still twice as long as it should be. Please do not remove the plot tag until this has been addressed. Collectonian (talk) 13:54, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

August 2009
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Sisters of Count Vampyre
I declined your G7 speedy deletion on this because the account requesting it was not the same as the account that created it. Looking at the accounts, I see a redirect suggesting that they are probably the same, but even so, substantial content was also contributed by a IP. That may well have been you again, but I cannot be sure of that, and we have to be very careful about speedy deletions. I have PRODded the article instead, and it should be painlessly gone in a week. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 19:28, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

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Rita Desjardin

 * Hi. As the creator of the Rita Desjardin article, could you edit it in order to explain, with citations of secondary sources, the real-world impact that makes that character notable in a way that is independent or transcendent of the original novel and its media adaptations, and the articles on those works, in keeping with Wikipeida's Notability policy? I think it would really improve the article, and more easily demonstrate why its topic deserves one. Thanks. :-) Nightscream (talk) 17:05, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

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