Talk:Central Casting

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Slangdef --fvw* 02:45, 2005 Jan 8 (UTC)

  • Merge and redirect to stereotype. Keep as rewritten. Dbiv 03:24, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Is there any evidence of notability? I found very few examples of this on Google. If not, Delete. Apparently there is more notability than I had thought. Keep. — Asbestos | Talk 11:40, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Modified article. There's plenty of evidence of notability. (Even I have heard, and been confused by, the term.) I've added some of it to the article, replacing the original author's made-up examples with some real ones. The existence of the (probably deliberately) confusingly named real companies makes this slightly more than a simple dictionary definition too, I think. Keep Uncle G 14:33, 2005 Jan 8 (UTC)
  • Keep. This is always a confusing phrase first time you meet it, so it belongs here. Quasi-dictionary, but I think we can do more with it. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 19:40, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • The improvements are good, but I'm still not convinced it can be anything but a definition. Transwiki to wiktionary would be best, though I remain open to the possibility of encyclopedifying. Tuf-Kat 19:45, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete dicdef RoySmith 20:37, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. -Sean Curtin 21:40, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep rewrite. RickK 00:56, Jan 9, 2005 (UTC)
  • I had the thought of soft redirect to Wiktionary if it can't be kept with rewrite. Alphax (t) (c) (e) 03:58, Jan 9, 2005 (UTC)
  • Much better but it's still a discussion of the meaning, origins and usage of the phrase. m:Transwiki to Wiktionary. Rossami (talk) 05:01, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
    • Concur. Edeans 08:37, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep. And expand if you can. Jeff Knaggs|Talk 09:25, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Weak Keep, article needs cleanup and expansion. Megan1967 00:56, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Transwiki. Cleduc 09:02, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Definate keep Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 12:44, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Transwiki to the Wiktionary. Not really encyclopedic. --Deathphoenix 15:22, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • keep just as encyclopedic as Blue plate special just not as complete. 66.245.209.124 06:31, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)User:Pedant
    • [This troubling entry, which the history & diffs indicate is the result of a single edit, is not consistent with a belated sig. (If Pedant can't log on at present, this may be innocent (however clumsily labelled) but to my knowledge that has not been reported as among the current peculiarities.) Link to Pedant struck thru as confusing, and possible inept forgery, pending explanation. --Jerzy(t) 17:57, 2005 Jan 13 (UTC)]]
  • Keep - David Gerard 19:15, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Tally[edit]

As of 17:57, 2005 Jan 13 (UTC)

  • Del
    1. fvw* 02:45, 2005 Jan 8 (UTC)
    2. RoySmith 20:37, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Transwiki (explicitly or implicitly to Wiktionary)
    1. Tuf-Kat 19:45, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC)
    2. Rossami (talk) 05:01, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
    3. Edeans 08:37, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
    4. Cleduc 09:02, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
    5. Deathphoenix 15:22, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

end moved discussion

A poor article as it stands, but potentially an important one[edit]

This seems to be another of the many articles for which WP policies fail. These pages cover subjects that are important but taken for granted by society, and for which there are therefore few or no reliable secondary references. This is a horrible article as it stands now. Breezily written, with few references, probably original research, and answering very few of the questions a reader might have (Who founded it? How was it founded? What were its major events? Where are its locations? Who are its officers? How does it work for actors? How does it work for producers? What are its relationships with other stakeholders in movie production? What are its prices? How does it handle monopoly so well? What is the role of a casting director? How does it relate to other casting organizations, if any?). David Spector (talk) 15:44, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

David, Wikipedia will always be a long way from completion. But I agree that this topic needs work. Would you want to collaborate on the article? Erik (talk | contribs) 15:47, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I assume that you don't have any special knowledge of this subject, because you made no such claim; if my assumption is wrong, then my following remarks are off-base... Thanks for the invitation, but I believe that an article like this needs to be written by someone who is intimately familiar with the subject. We aren't a regular encyclopedia that pays experts to write the articles, but on the other hand we shouldn't write when we have no knowledge whatsoever of the subject. Such improvement wouldn't be much. My best contributions have happened when I knew the subject well, and only had to find good references to support what I already knew was the truth of the subject. Again, thanks. I would rather that we wait for someone actually employed in the movie business who could write knowledgeably and in depth. Compare with the articles here on mathematics, which are excellent because the authors knew what they were writing. There is no rush to edit if we want quality. Just my opinion, of course. David Spector (talk) 12:48, 26 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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