Talk:Corona (film)

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Please note that it is not standard Wikipedia format to just contextlessly list a bunch of extra media hits as a "further reading" section above and beyond the footnoted referencing — a "further reading" section is for listing things like books or academic theses, not just "extra newspaper articles besides the ones already in the footnotes". Hits like these should be used as footnotes for body text, not just thrown into a "further reading" section — so if you want these to be reflected in the article, add them as real footnotes for real content.

Heritage, Stuart (March 27, 2020). "Coronavirus: the movie is somehow already here – but are we ready for it?". The Guardian. Retrieved April 12, 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
Wallace, Anne (March 27, 2020). "'Corona' the movie has already been made, and it looks kind of bad". Deseret News. Retrieved April 12, 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
Sharma, Aayush (March 30, 2020). "Canadian Movie 'Corona' Becomes First Movie To Tackle COVID-19 Pandemic". International Business Times. Retrieved April 12, 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
Kron, Josh (March 31, 2020). "A Coronavirus Thriller Was Finished Just Before the Shutdown". The New York Times. Retrieved April 13, 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
"Coronavirus: Seven people stuck in a lift. Then one coughs..." BBC News. April 9, 2020. Retrieved April 12, 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
Harlow, John; Hellen, Nicholas (April 12, 2020). "Coming to a screen two metres from you, Coronavirus — the movie". The Times. Retrieved April 12, 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

- Bearcat (talk) 18:15, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging the article's creator MarkZusab. Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 21:41, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Followup: the creator readded all of the above references to the article by simply adding a single statement to the article, "The film received coverage from newspapers and national media.", and then reference bombing all of the above references onto that one sentence. So, just for future reference, that's still not how you do this: you do not use references to metareference their own existence by using the coverage to support a statement that said coverage exists; you use references to support substantive content about the film that is supported by those references, such as plot details and production information and release dates.

Simply put, references support notability based on the substance of what is said about the topic in the reference, not based simply on the existence of a footnote. So you use references to support content about the film, not just to verify their own existence as references. Bearcat (talk) 15:33, 20 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]