Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/David Lynch filmography/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by Giants2008 17:12, 9 October 2012.

David Lynch filmography

 * Nominator(s): GRAPPLE   X  05:21, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

This man again. And he's nominating that man again—a man Mel Brooks described as "Jimmy Stewart from Mars". I'm pretty sure this one should be straightforward enough. It's based, loosely, on Spike Lee filmography though the differences should be clear enough. This is as comprehensive as I feel it's going to be (I don't think there's anything missing from it and as you can see from the sourcing there's been quite a few different places combed through to be sure. I even tracked down his television ad!); though I will need to keep an eye on The Cleveland Show (eurgh) to update any future episodes he appears in. Yes, the man who based a film about infanticide on the birth of his own disabled daughter is on a primetime US cartoon now. As always, I'll be on hand to respond to any questions and address any comments pretty promptly. GRAPPLE  X  05:21, 4 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Support looks pretty solid. Well done! TBrandley 20:31, 4 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Support on prose. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:20, 5 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Comments
 * Add publisher (The Onion) to Ref. 34, match it with Ref. 37
 * Just a suggestion, but you might want to add publishers for some of the magazines, like Total Film (Future Publishing) and the International Herald Tribune (The New York Times Company)
 * Those are the only issues I could find, and they are super-minor.-- Gen. Quon   (Talk)   03:53, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your comments. I've added additional publishing info where possible; the reference to Pitchfork Media didn't get one as it seems to be its own parent company rather than an imprint of something else. GRAPPLE   X  04:22, 5 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Support NapHit (talk) 20:02, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Comments

On the issue of which column to put first: Many screen readers are able to identify a "row header" and speak it when the user is navigating around a table. Let me take the example of the "David Lynch's film appearances and roles" table. Someone using JAWS, for example, could navigate down the Other column. They could set JAWS to read out the headers along with each cell, so they would hear "Other, 1966, Animator"; when they moved down one cell, they would hear "Other, 1968, Editor" - this is because the Year is being identified as the row header.

Now, if we made the Film entries into row headers (I'd prefer to call it Title because the whole row is the film, but that's just a nit-pick), the JAWS user would hear "Other, Six Figures Getting Sick, Animator"; followed by "Other, The Alphabet, Editor". Don't you think that is preferable?

If we wanted to change to using the titles as row headers, we could simply move the '! scope="row"' markup onto the Film entries in the table and most modern screen readers that I'm aware of would respect that and use those titles as row headers. It is possible that older and more primitive readers may ignore the markup and simply pick the first column as row headers, so swapping the Film column with the Year column would cover more cases than leaving it alone.

@Grapple: I don't intend to prescribe (or proscribe!) anything here, but I hope I can point you in the direction of improving access (and for whom you are improving it). You need to agree between yourself and the reviewers what are the best row headers and how to weigh the value of having them in the first column compared with your aesthetic preference for the year first. I can't make that decision for you, but it was that consideration that drove the Discography folks to putting title first. Hope that helps.

On other accessibility concerns, I'd recommend not using constructions like "Here Today Gone Tomorrow" "Truck Stop" to make lists of titles - using "Here Today Gone Tomorrow"

"Truck Stop" will produce a real list for the screen readers while displaying the same for sighted viewers like this: "Here Today Gone Tomorrow"

"Truck Stop"

While I'm here, can I just point out that we are moving to HTML 5 very soon. In that version, tags like  are deprecated, so I think our best articles ought to be demonstrating best practice such as using style="text-align:center;" instead. I'd also use style="width:65px;" rather than width=65 for the same reason. It's not crucial because mediawiki software and browsers will cope with ancient markup for some time to come, but at some point it will have to be updated and we can encourage good markup by providing those who will copy and adapt our best work with good examples. --RexxS (talk) 17:22, 11 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Aha. I had assumed that a screenreader would give the full row rather than being able to break it up, and would read "1966, Six Figures Getting Sick... etc ... Animator"; given that insight I guess it makes much more sense to change it. I'll get to that now; same goes for ubl, etc. Thanks for that, as I wouldn't have realised it was an issue otherwise. GRAPPLE   X  18:06, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Have made the changes to the film table; will do the TV/web one now. I'll set the headings there based on the titles of the episodes in question rather than the series as it would seem to make the most since given the above. GRAPPLE   X  18:43, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. GRAPPLE   X  19:42, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the clarification and your time Rexx, much appreciated. NapHit (talk) 20:02, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Source comments –
 * What makes Pitchfork Media (ref 32) a reliable source?
 * Per their staff page, the site can be seen to retain employed editors and journalists; their editorial staff consists of several people (the article used in this list was written by one of the site's associate editors). I feel the site is professional enough about its standard of editorial practice (their taste and pretension notwithstanding of course :P). GRAPPLE   X  22:22, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * What makes Consequence of Sound (ref 33) reliable? Giants2008  ( Talk ) 22:07, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * The site seems to be held in reasonably high regard by more established media, enjoying a partnership with Time magazine, while its reviews are collected by the harsher-than-we-are Metacritic. As for its editorial practices, their about page mentions that they retain an employed staff and similarly lists their editing staff. GRAPPLE   X  22:22, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Support I just gave this a good look over. After all the suggestions that have been fixed, this page is in prime shape. I vote aye.-- Gen. Quon   (Talk)   04:17, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
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