User talk:Hunter2714

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Monarnuvs (talk) 05:20, 25 February 2019 (UTC) 

Welcome!
Hello, Hunter2714, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Smiley Face Killers
Hi! I wanted to explain why I removed the reception section on the article for the Smiley Face Killers. The ultimate reason is that neither IMDb nor Amazon are considered to be reliable sources on Wikipedia, particularly when it comes to audience reception. Most sites that allow users to submit their own reviews will not be considered reliable, as the nature of the sites means that anyone can add a review and as such potentially sway the ratings into one direction or another. The same principle applies to the audience reaction scores on Rotten Tomatoes. It's not impossible that people could make a concentrated effort to sway the reviews into one direction or another and there have been several visible campaigns to do just that. Even then, these campaigns would only be of note if the news covered them enough to establish how the campaign was notable. Here are some examples of this:


 * In 2014 actor Kirk Cameron petitioned his followers to positively rate the film Saving Christmas on Rotten Tomatoes to "send the message to all the critics that WE decide what movies we want our families to see". This eventually caught the attention of the media, at which point many people organized to pan the film on not only Rotten Tomatoes, but also IMDb, so that it was one of the worst rated films of all time.
 * A similar thing happened to the film Captain Marvel on Rotten Tomatoes, which resulted in the site removing the option for site users to place an audience reaction score prior to any film's commercial release.


 * With Amazon, the book Bend, Not Break became the focus of a campaign to negatively review the book. The negative reviewers were reported to be Chinese citizens who asserted that the author, Ping Fu, exaggerated and falsified material.

There is also history on Amazon of authors hiring people to write positive reviews and there are also authors who will do a "quid pro quo" by giving another author a positive review if they give a positive review in turn.

In any case, these ratings aren't seen as notable as far as Wikipedia go unless there's coverage about the ratings on sites like this, so the only ones that should be used are reviews in places like newspapers or sites like the AV Club, as well as scholarly and academic sources. There is some information about this here and at the WikiProject for film. ReaderofthePack (formerly Tokyogirl79)  (｡◕‿◕｡)  15:24, 20 August 2019 (UTC)