Editing Broadway/theater pages on Wikipedia

[mcsquared]

Posted: 6/11/22 at 10:56pm

I was just editing a page on Wikipedia and came across a message on Public Theatre's page saying the page needed editing because it read too much like an advertisement. I did some more searching and several of the plays I recently saw (Bedwetter, Islanders,Dreaming Zenzile, Birthday Candles) did not have an entry or were just stubs. People on these boards know so much so I would encourage you to take on editing a page to make information more readily available to the public. 

[JBroadway]

Posted: 6/11/22 at 11:24pm

I've made edits from time to time when I noticed something missing or incorrect, but creating entries from scratch for every new play feels like such a chore. I'm grateful to those who do it at all - although I think some of the people who do it can get a bit territorial. Sometimes when I try to make edits to a page, I notice that there's 1 or 2 people who continuously maintain it and sometimes they remove my edits because they don't realize they were wrong about some detail.

[mcsquared]

Posted: 6/11/22 at 11:37pm

Yah, that's understandable that it could get discouraging if your work gets undone. There is a talk page for each article aside where you can open discussion up as to reason for edits aside from the one line you fill out when you make changes. I guess it's all the more reason to focus on the topics that aren't getting as much love so you can contribute more. There will probably be a ton of edits on the Tony winners tomorrow night.

Updated On: 6/11/22 at 11:37 PM