Talk:The Outing (film)

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Claims and sourcing edit

Latest comment: 8 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion

I'm removing the claims about it being edited. The problem here is that we have had a SPA come in and make various articles about Warren Chaney. Many, if not all, of these articles are completely unsourced by anything that Wikipedia would consider reliable. It also doesn't help that some of the sources in those articles don't seem to exist at all. As a result, we're stuck with claims in this article that may be true, but have nothing to back them up. Given that we've already had articles with Chaney related claims that were false, I'm going to remove these until we have a good source to back these up, preferably one that predates 2011, as that's when the bulk of these articles and claims were written. We're running into cases where there might be something written, but the research seems to have come from Wikipedia. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 04:28, 11 December 2015 (UTC)Reply

I just did a little more of the above for the same reasons. Permstrump (talk) 03:27, 2 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

The problem was that I put the refname in the wrong spot. I obviously meant to cite the Dread Central review, but put it in the HorrorNews.Net ref. I was probably too tired to notice that. Regardless, the original citation wasn't exactly as precise as one might like, as it lacked dates. I tracked down announcements from secondary sources. Generally, we prefer secondary sources over primary sources, even if they're little more than reposts of press releases. It shows that an independent reliable source cared enough to report on a specific DVD release. This helps prevent the article from becoming swamped by announcements from fly-by-night DVD distributors. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 04:36, 2 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

Political correctness edit

Latest comment: 8 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

There are a couple of places where Deborah Winters' character is referred to as "Arab" or "of Arabic origins." It's not an inherently offensive term, but it makes me uncomfortable, so I'm taking it out. First of all, the actress playing that character is white, so it makes me think she was probably wearing a middle eastern equivalent of blackface and portraying the character in a really stereotypical and probably offensive way. I digress. The actress's makeup and misappropriation of another culture doesn't have to do with this article, but considering the actress is definitively not Arab, this use of the term feels like when people call everyone from Latin America "Mexican" and I don't see why this character's ethnicity is relevant to the plot summary anyway. Ok... getting off my soapbox now. Permstrump (talk) 03:26, 2 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

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