Talk:Greeble

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There was some prose greebling in the article; I've removed it. Namely:

For some definitions in relation to Greeble, Protrusions are Panels, and Nurnies are Widgets.

‣ᓛᖁᑐ 02:16, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Missing image (greeble_city.gif)

Whoever added that image may want to upload it again, as it seems to have vanished. I just commented out the tag to clean up the page a tiny bit. —Rassilon 20:37, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Merging Greeble and Nurnie?

I've read both articles, and I can't find any difference between the two (except their names). How about if we merge the two and mention both names? Peter S. 23:27, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Definitely sounds to me like they are the same thing. I agree that they should be merged. Mobius131186 18:23, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Support - They're virtually identical. Maybe include a small section on terminology, but there's no discernible difference. Unless I'm not looking at all the nurnie detail... Grahamdubya 00:49, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Greebles in visual processing and face recognition

Greebles in Gauthier's paper is totally different from the main picture. I think this greeble and that greeble is totally different, so we might upload another picture for Gauthier's greebles, OR we might create an article for Gauthier's greebles. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Janviermichelle (talk • contribs).

I agree, I've added a Split tag. Unless someone knows of a reason they should remain together (was one inspired by the other? or just same name arrived at independently?), then they should/can be split. --Quiddity 06:01, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Origin of the word "nurnies"

Though the article gives credit to Ron Thornton for coining the term "nurnies", the term existed before that. In the movie Short Circuit 2, the sentient robot Johnny 5 is enlisted to help assemble miniature toy versions of himself. While giving a demonstration of his assembly capabilities, he utters the line "don't forget the nurnies!"

It is possible that this doesn't refer to quite the same thing, but being that he is assembling toys with basic capabilities (such as rolling/track motion an limb movements) it is likely that they would have added superficial detail parts whose sole purpose is to enhance their visual appeal - the nurnies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.95.227.78 (talk) 17:13, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Computer game reference

A game for Mac computers is called Greebles, it's similar to Pacman in style. Is it worth a mention? 123.208.126.203 (talk) 06:50, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Only if it is connected (citation required!) to the topic already here. Otherwise, it would need its own article, before we could add a page-top hatnote, to disambiguate the two separate topics.

(From a search, it looks like someone already tried to write one, but it was deleted per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greeble (game)). -- Quiddity (talk) 19:00, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

how peculiar. the deleted article references a "Newly released minor iPhone game". I was playing greebles on Mac in the mid 90s. Have to agree that it's not worth its own article unless more information is found though. 58.171.100.12 (talk) 10:10, 30 March 2010 (UTC)