User talk:Olivierchagnon

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The Relation between Hollywood and the Politicians
I moevd your contribution titled "The Relation between Hollywood and the Politicians" from Hollywood, Los Angeles, California to Talk:Cinema of the United States for two reasons. First, the former article concerns the geographic district of Los Angeles, not the film industry. As I'm sure you know, some of the big studios weren't even in Hollywood proper. The film industry is covered in Cinema of the United States. I didn't move it straight into that article because it reads too much like an essay, even though there are four citations. Our task, as Wikipedia editors, is to verifiably summarize reliable sources using the neutral point of view. One of the things that we don't do is publish essays. WP:NOT. I suggest cutting the material down substantially to what can be directly cited from the sources and to a length commensurate to its overall importance to the industry and the length of the article. Does that make sense? Please let me know if you have any questions.  Will Beback   talk    19:42, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

helpmeThanks for the input Will. I modified my topic "The Relation between Hollywood and the Politicians" to make it sound like less of an essay and I moved it into "Cinema of the United States", as you were right is the correct page for my topic. I hope that is is OK now, and more of a human knowledge of the history rather than an essay. Best regards, Olivier.

This is not really what the helpme tag is for, you can reply to users without tags. Thanks--Res2216firestar 03:12, 6 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Olivier, I reviewed the material more carefully, and checked two fo the three sources. It appears that the text stays within the sources to a reasonable degree. It still seems to be more interested in making a case than simply reporting, but it's close enough that it's not a major problem. The piece is well written, perhaps too well. ;)   Will Beback    talk    04:40, 6 February 2009 (UTC)