Talk:The Will Rogers Follies

message: I am also an avid musical theater fan, as well as a former theater professional.  I am occasionally quite dissapointed in Wikipedia's coverage of these topics and would hope we could all work together to expand this coverage.
I basically agree totally with Estreya.  Wikipedia's coverage of musicals needs to be expanded, but it should take strongly into account the needs of hypothetical readers.  There are two kinds of "questions" to be answered by articles about musicals.  The first is sort of brief (What is the musical about?  Is this the musical I'm thinking of?) and should be answered by a brief description of content and style in the lead paragraph.  Mere composer/lyricist details are not really enough, nor are production details (as those change.)
The second "question" is really a set of really specific questions, unique to each reader:  Plot details, song details, production histories, major story and character arcs.  Cultural references,  the popular succes of individuals songs.  Revivals, movie versions...all of this is best answered by additional sections, well written, with great detail.  This is the general format not just of Wikipedia articles about musicals, but nearly all Wikipedia articles, especially those about fictional works of any kind.  I agree, somewhat, that the longer version of the synopsis needs some style touch-ups.  But that is an argument for good editing, not for outright removal.  The point of working on these articles (at least for me personally) is to raise their quality while expanding them, not to merely remove sections that need work.  
As a side note, and not to play the heavy here, but please don't let this devolve into some kind of edit war.  Although no one appears to have violated the 3 revert rule there has been a heck of a lot more reverting than discussing.  I will not hesitate to protect this article to force productive discussion on the talk page if excessive reverting continues.  Cheers. Dina 17:55, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: My 2 cents (as well)

message: This synopsis is often identical to that found on RationalMagic.com . That page is (c)2002. Is this a problem? -- 11 June 2007 24.188.188.15
:Thanks.  I've gone through the text to make sure that the language no longer copies from this synopsis (which is seen on many websites).  Best regards,  -- Ssilvers 12:54, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
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