Talk:2024 Seattle International Film Festival

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A fact from 2024 Seattle International Film Festival appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 June 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the 2024 Seattle International Film Festival sold 18,000 pounds (8,200 kg) of popcorn?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2024 Seattle International Film Festival.

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Red links for features, but perhaps not for shorts

I was thinking of not having any red links for the short films or their directors, except for those for which an {{ill}} can be done. I think that it is worthwhile to have red links for features. Unfortunately, for the shorts we would have a sea of red. Peaceray (talk) 05:48, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead & removed red links that were not part of {{ill}} templates for short films. Peaceray (talk) 23:25, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Asking for input

@Bearcat, Birdienest81, FloorMadeOuttaFloor, and Martineden83: Hi, I am pinging you because I have created a draft for a SIFF festival, & each of you has substantially more experience with editing film festival & film awards articles. This is the first one of a series for at least the post-covid era, & is part of several improvements for Seattle International Film Festival-related articles. I am hoping for any tips for improvement.

Some items of note:

Although SIFF has "programs", most films are included in more than one program category. For that reason, I have made three lists: narrative features, documentary features, & shorts.
I use {{ill}} to provide a two letter link for otherwise redlinked articles when there is an article in another language Wikipedia. Similarly, when there is only a corresponding Wikidata item for a redlink, the template can provide a one letter link to it.
I will be using a fair-use image from the program catalog for the infobox, but I will wait until it becomes an article since Non-free content is allowed only in articles (as per WP:NFCCP).

@SounderBruce: The tables in the draft should now be ready for you to work your magic with screen-reader compatability. BTW, I have found copy & paste to be unusually slow in the narrative features & documentary features tables.
Peaceray (talk) 04:48, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's all pretty reasonable. I did, on perusing the list, catch one Canadian film that does have an article but had not been linked, so I added a link for that — and my other comment would be that since Category:Seattle International Film Festival doesn't currently exist, you won't be able to create it for just this alone, and at least a couple more full festival articles will have to be in place before it can be created. But that can easily be dealt with by just hiding it behind a hidden comment until it's ready to be created, so it's not a major crisis. Bearcat (talk) 04:58, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! We also have the Seattle International Film Festival, SIFF Cinema Downtown, & Egyptian Theater (Seattle) articles & will probably create one for the SIFF Cinema Uptown. My next creation will be Draft:2025 Seattle International Film Festival. So all that, & possibly a navigation template, will go into Category:Seattle International Film Festival. Peaceray (talk) 05:16, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I went through and added screen reader-compatible captions to the tables and messed around with the abbreviations to provide additional context through tooltips. Noticed quite a few of the links to the competitions weren't going in the right place, so hopefully I did fix them properly. Sounder Bruce 06:03, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Great, but is it really necessary to add that template flagging the language of the original title? I'm also not very fond of the idea of signalize if its a U.S or North American premiere, we don't do that in the TIFF, NYFF or Telluride articles, festivals that have a lot of films from Cannes, Sundance and Venice. But all of this is up for debate. Martineden83 (talk) 15:47, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That is a good point. The Original title was a holdover from the the original spreadsheet that I copied. I can remove that if there are no objections. It certainly would make for easier table maintenance. Peaceray (talk) 19:21, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Implemented removal of Original title column from three tables. Peaceray (talk) 19:46, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Launchballer talk 13:39, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the 2024 Seattle International Film Festival sold 18,000 pounds (8,200 kg) of popcorn? Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/siff-2024-wraps-with-an-attendance-bump-over-last-years-edition/
ALT1: ... that 18,000 pounds (8,165 kg) of popcorn were sold during the 2024 Seattle International Film Festival? Source: The Seattle Times
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Wang Xiaolong (Chinese coast guardsman)
Comment: The image in the Infobox is a non-free fair use image. There is also a .svg logo that is on Commons. If the non-free fair use image is a problem, it can be removed during the DYK display. I also request that this be scheduled for DYK on 2025-05-15, which is the opening day of 2025 Seattle International Film Festival.

Moved to mainspace by Peaceray (talk) and SounderBruce (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

Peaceray (talk) 22:08, 3 May 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Added an ALT1. Sounder Bruce 22:11, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

General eligibility:

New enough:
Long enough:
Other problems:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Other problems:

Hook eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

@SounderBruce: @Peaceray: Moved to mainspace on May 3, so it is new enough. QPQ is met and I can find no grammatical or spelling mistakes. Everything appears to be properly sourced. The hook is interesting and both variants of it are fine. Jon698 (talk) 20:28, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]