User talk:Maggie4461

Welcome to Wiki-editing!
Hi, Maggie4461. Welcome to Wikipedia. I am a longtime Wikipedia editor and I have found it both fun and educational. I hope you do, too! That said, I have deleted your additions to the film theory article, because they are off-topic. Movements in film history (such as the French new wave) are not aspects of film "theory." More accurately, they are part of the history of film, not its theory. As the "Short description" of film theory reads, it is about "Conceptual frameworks for understanding the nature of cinema." That's quite different from the history of cinema.

I recommend that you begin your Wikipedia editing experience with smaller additions and modifications of articles. And you might wish to work on articles that are not as challenging as film theory, which is a difficult topic! I see on your user page that you are in Australia and studying filmmaking. I would suggest you work on smaller topics in those areas. If you look at the Cinema of Australia article you'll see that there are tons of topics that are linked to. I'll bet there are lots of them that need to be enlarged!

Enjoy your wiki-editing! --Jeremy Butler (talk) 13:14, 15 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi Jeremy,
 * Thank you for your feedback, I really appreciate it. The edits that I made yesterday were for a university assignment, and I had thought it was relevant to discuss the film movements and the related theories (mise-en-scene, lighting, locations etc..) within the related movement. Is there a different stub that you would recommend I move my work to?
 * Thank you so much, Olivia! Maggie4461 (talk) 04:27, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, Olivia. Thank you for your interest in Wikipedia editing. Unfortunately, I have had to remove your edits to film theory again because they don't fit into that article. The movements you discuss were not direct results of film theory and thus are not appropriate for that article. I have a PhD in film theory and film history and have taught it for 40 years at universities. From my perspective, your edits are a mismatch for an article on film theory. Please do not add them to that article again.
 * However, what you might do is look at specific articles on topics like French New Wave and Japanese New Wave and see if you can improve them with the material you researched. If you are specifically looking for stubs to work on, I again refer you to the Cinema of Australia article, which should have Wikilinks to many stubs. --Jeremy Butler (talk) 12:07, 27 May 2022 (UTC)