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Before today, there were two articles, black hat (film) and white hat (film). I have merged them here to black and white hat symbolism in film because there did not need to be two articles on the same convention and because "(film)" is a disambiguation term used by articles about individual films. I also overhauled the article to reference the convention as discussed in some books. Erik ( talk |  contrib) ^{( ping me)} 21:08, 29 September 2014 (UTC) reply