Talk:List of Italian actors

Scope and sources

Firstly this cannot be a complete list of Italian actors: no such thing is feasible—it would have to include every spear-carrier who trod the boards of the Teatro Olimpico and every forgotten player of the Commedia dell'Arte who appeared at far more rustic venues.

Secondly the description of sources is now thoroughly out of date. No doubt the following statement is true:

The origin of this list is in collation of actor-stubs that contain reference to the actor or actress being an "Italian actor" or other indicative phrase. It also includes all actors in Category:Italian actors.

But the current list is largely of redlinks.

I am therefore going to remove the ‘complete’ and add {{unsourced}}. —Ian Spackman 10:59, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Requested move 9 November 2020

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

No consensus to move, after extended time for discussion. A least one other possible resolution has been proposed; I would suggest either examining that proposal, or revisiting this one some months down the road. BD2412 T 19:45, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

List of Italian actors → List of Italian male actors – The current title is not precise, as actor can refer to actors of any gender. This move would also make it consistent with Category:Italian male actors. GreenComputer (talk) 11:48, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

@Justlettersandnumbers: Pinging as you reverted the original move. GreenComputer (talk) 12:04, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose per WP:CONSISTENCY. While category headers do indeed use the form "male actors", that is not the case with main title headers of the lists themselves as confirmed by entries under Category:Lists of actors by nationality. Singling out this specific list for inconsistency would be counterintuitive. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 04:39, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

  @Roman Spinner: Almost all the lists in Category:Lists of actors by nationality that are for "actors" (as opposed to "male actors" or "actresses") are for actors of any gender (see, for instance, List of Cameroonian actors, List of Jamaican actors, List of Swedish actors, etc.), which would make leaving this article at its current title inconsistent. GreenComputer (talk) 08:38, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

• Neutral. I am striking my previous "oppose" vote and replacing it with "neutral". Although there are still titling inconsistencies, this entry is not the sole one bearing the header "List of Everynation male actors". —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 10:16, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
• Support per nom and consistency with other similar examples. Actresses are actors too, so the title is ambiguous. Paintspot Infez (talk) 20:08, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose, "actor" already implies maleness in formal English. A better solution would be just to merge the two lists, thus also allowing space for members of the acting profession who do not wish to be identified as either m or f. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:53, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Notified WikiProject Lists, the Italian cinema task force and WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers. GreenComputer (talk) 21:18, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.