Talk:List of American films of 1950

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Format

04-Oct-2008: There isn't a mandatory format for the American film-year articles, but some issues are common:

Use 5 column headings: Title, Director, Cast, Genre, Notes.
Use multiple tables to wrap and pinpoint errors (see topic below).
Group as: A-B (or "A-C"), C-G, H-M, N-S, T-Z (or similar).
Group in 3rd-level subheaders (3 equal signs "===A-B===").
Keep Genre as short words: avoid slashes "Western film noir" (not "Western/film noir").
Keep Notes short or use sub-row notes (see "Subrow notes" below).

Those are some of the issues. -Wikid77 (talk) 18:25, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Use multiple tables to wrap and pinpoint errors

04-Oct-2008: Rather than list the films for a particular year in one table A-Z, split the entries into multiple tables, with table A-B (or "A-C") able to reformat as more narrow to fit alongside the sidebar navbox (of all film-years). Using 5 or 6 other multiple tables helps to pinpoint any future coding errors, such as an extra ending column "|| ||" that will reformat an outside bracket on all entries within a table. Some film articles have about 140 films, but the separate tables limit the errors to checking about 26 film entries (per table) for incorrect coding, rather than proofreading all 140 entries to spot those coding errors. Some table-coding errors have remained unsolved for months. -Wikid77 (talk) 17:01, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Setting film column widths

04-Oct-2008: I am currently studying American film articles to set column widths to better fit names for title, director, and cast members. The Genre/Note columns can be forced as more narrow, with Genre=10% and Note=5% (was 28%), to allow more space for the earlier columns:

{| class=wikitable
|-
! width=25% | Title 
! width=21% | Director 
! width=38% | Cast
! width=10% | Genre 
! width=5%  | Note

If the Genre/Note columns are not specifically set to narrow widths, they will auto-format wider than needed (with extra white space) while squeezing the title, director & cast columns.

Those width percentages seem to fit American name lengths (for films with the cast members listed). -Wikid77 (talk) 18:20, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Subrow notes

04-Oct-2008: For long notes about a film, put the note text on a sub-row after the film (to avoid a tall Notes column):

| Film title || Director || actor 1, actor 2, actor 3 || genre ||
|-
| colspan=2 |
| colspan=3 | This is the example for long note text here.

The sub-row will appear below the film's cast, as follows:

Film title	Director	actor 1, actor 2, actor 3	genre
		This is the example for long note text here.

Short notes can be listed under the "Notes" column. -Wikid77 (talk) 18:25, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Intro and Notes

Okay, so I tried to not be redundant redundant redundant with some of the intro information, I know some of it was mentioned on the 1950 in film page. I also noticed that in many of the other American films of whenever lists, there's a strong tendency to mention only the Oscar winners for that year, while the Golden Globes were also important, mainly for the musicals or comedies that rarely see any Oscar action.

Also, for the notes section, I changed those to feature the notable remakes, adapations, debuts or just general interesting facts for that film. Does it really need to point out which company made every film? If it needs to, I'll change it back, though. Wool Mintons (talk) 10:01, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]