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I wanted you to know that your edit to the Halloween franchise was reverted. THe reason is that we typically do not use RT scores for films that pre-date RT (1998). The reason is that the reviews they have for those films are typically not accurate to how they were actually viewed at the time of their release. That's because the internet was still very young and most of those reviews were in physical form. What you tend to see for older films on RT is more recent reviews (typically within the last 10 to 15 years). That's fine in general, but not when comparing how a film was received at the time of its release, nor against newer films in the franchise. Addtionally, many of the films don't have enough reviews to be considered statistically significant, and when they do, you're comparing a film with 50 to 70 reviews to one with 300 reviews. THey aren't comparable. What needs to happen is more of a prose section that can provide context for how the series was viewed originally compared to how it is viewed today (as a whole). BIGNOLE (Contact me) 13:26, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for getting in touch. Yeah, I definitely agree that the results are going to be skewed as a result of the later timing of the reviews. However, there is a lot of precedence for using the tables for pre-1998 films. Notably Star Wars, Alien, Jaws. Are you able to cite any policies that support the view that they are unacceptable? In my view, they are the best available source of data on the matter. Thanks --DilatoryRevolution (talk) 05:41, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
- The other pages really shouldn't be using RT and MetaCritic tables either (precedent doesn't mean correct, just means no one said anything), specifically because they lack context and they aren't comparable across later films. I mean Halloween was generally well received, but to say it has a 94% approval rating in 1978 is completely false (I'm not saying you say that, but it's the implication with the table). Just look at Jaws for example; none of the reviews pre-date 2000, and many are from 2020 and 2021. That's not accurate to what they felt in 1975...it's completely different people that grew up with Jaws as children.
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There is no need to post on my talk page every time you reply to an ongoing discussion: you don't need to "invite me" to participate in a discussion I've been participating in since the start, and it comes across as rather discourteous. The Drover's Wife (talk) 11:58, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
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- I'm sorry, the longest I've ever taken to reply to one of your responses on that talk page is three hours. How entitled do you have to be to get mad and leave talk page messages, and to claim that that is "not participating in the discussion"? On 6 September, you posted on my talk page literally four minutes after your response on the article talk page. This is some of the most peculiar behaviour I've ever encountered on Wikipedia, which leads me to wonder if you're actively trolling. The Drover's Wife (talk) 04:50, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
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- @Eejit43: that's not exactly an accurate account of what happened. DilatoryRevolution moved Opposition (Western Australia) to Shadow ministry of Mia Davies because that page was mainly about the specific shadow ministry and not shadow ministries in general in WA. They then set up an excerpt of Shadow ministry of Mia Davies at Opposition (Western Australia) I assume so that its simpler when a new shadow ministry comes along (which will be happening soon as Mia Davies has resigned). They attributed the copied information in their edit summary. I do not see what the problem was. Steelkamp (talk) 16:02, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
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