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February 27

Punk/metal posters in Chicago

Are there any stores in Chicago (besides Shuga Records) that sell, or give away, posters of punk bands, metal bands, or similar bands? Thanks – 107.199.156.56 (talk) 01:22, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

I typed music posters Chicago in Google, which has a lot of good leads. Looking at Yelp! reviews and some other of those links, it looks like Reckless Records would be a good place to start looking. --Jayron32 13:47, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

February 28

Black/white-movie shown in colour-movie = ???

Hello (sorry for my english)!

I have 2 problems/questions, but they have the same general topic:

1.: In the movie What's Eating Gilbert Grape, the protagonists at some time watch an old black-and-white-movie. What's its name?

2.: In the movie 84 Charing Cross Road (film), the character Helene Hanff (played by Anne Bancroft) in one scene goes to a US-cinema and watches an old black-and-white-movie. What's its name? (As I have the DVD of "84 Charing Cross Road" at my hands, I can say that the cinema visit scene takes place at about minute 28 (PAL system UK DVD), and that in the closing credits of the movie DVD I found no hint concerning what b/w movie material it is.)

Thanks for your help!

P.S.: Maybe I'm allowed to invite/ask user @Alansplodge: in this way to here, in case he would like to contribute something to this? (As he knows "84 Charing Cross Road", as I learned from the reference desk archive search I did before, which showed no success to my questions, nor did a general internet search engine try by me.)

--2003:DF:AF4D:3300:68E7:4722:16EF:AAD0 (talk) 01:21, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

It's nice to be remembered, but sadly I don't remember that detail. A quick Google search isn't showing anything, but I'll have another try later. Alansplodge (talk) 12:47, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

www.imdb.com says for Gilbert Grape it's Indiscretion of an American Wife and for 84 Charing Cross Road it's Brief Encounter --TrogWoolley (talk) 12:51, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Well done. According to this, Brief Enconter is also being watched in A Touch of Class, Truly, Madly, Deeply, The Mirror Has Two Faces, 'Til There Was You and Brick Lane as well as numerous television appearances. Alansplodge (talk) 17:16, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

TrogWoolley and Alansplodge, thank you so much for your work! It means a lot to me! I'd also like to thank you both for those website links - that's very helpful to me, I didn't know that there were that websites that contain such nitpicking informations I were looking at. I'm also glad about the website links because that could also help me in the future, if I should wonder about such detail things in a film again. Thank you so much! 2003:DF:AF1D:8600:B912:70EF:D654:1BB4 (talk) 13:52, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

March 1

A music video involving teleportation or travel all over the world and a protagonist following or finding his love interest after discussing their future in a snowy place.

Something I am sure about

A music video involving teleportation (or travel at least) all over the world and a protagonist following or looking for his love interest and they end up in a church or some stony building with words about the location (probably engraved).

I am definitely sure I saw it on youtube (although it might be moved somewhere else).

That is the main descriptions I am sure of.

Here are the details I am kinda shaky about :

1. Date range is probably after 2010 (that is just the date of watching at least).

2. The song genre I am not sure. Maybe EDM or Pop.

3. It either involves or starts off in the Polar or snowy region with the protagonist and love interest unsure about the future. Not sure was there dialogue or I just interpreted the body language that way.

4. The love interest disappears one day and the protagonist have to find her.

5. Church or stony building might have said Saint Vincent or Antigua along with maybe a year that building was built. It was probably is a tropical place in the Caribbean or another hemisphere. At that point I guess it was at that point the journey over and happy ending. May involve marriage but there was celebration at least with other participants I think. I definitely recall that me the viewer looked up Wikipedia about the place in the music video.

6. point 3 to 5 might take place chronologically however point 6 might not be the end to the music video

7. The first impression I got was that I thought that it starts off post apocalyptic snowy region in the snow so time travel might be a factor.

8. I am not sure does the travel involve a blue glowing portal or that the travel is cuts to another region (as in there is the possibility there is no Special Effects portal but there is travel somehow).

9. If you find something that at least matches the main description of "globetrotting adventure to follow/find love interest" let me know and comment here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.80.26.66 (talk) 10:18, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Your description has vague matches to Jumper (2008 film), which of course is not a music video, nor does the film seem to have had any associated music videos. Is it possible that you're remembering a trailer for the film? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.122.1.40 (talk) 11:24, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

It might be a short film. Unlike the Jumper (2018) the Love interest character also seem to disappear first after the polar scene leading to the rest of the plot. Also the protagonist is a black guy if I recall correctly. 67.80.26.66 (talk) 12:47, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

March 2

Sheffield Rules

In 1861 rouges were introduced into the code. The idea was borrowed from Eton and involved a 4 yards (3.7 m) goal (as opposed to 8 yards (7.3 m) used previously). There were also rouge flags placed an additional 4 yards (3.7 m) each side of the goal. If the ball was kicked between the rouge flags and subsequently touched down the team scored a rouge.

The third word is linked to Rouge (football), a seemingly unrelated concept in Canadian football that is scored if the other team fails to return certain kicks. Do I guess rightly that Sheffield's rouge was basically a way of semi-scoring shots on goal that were near misses? And what does touched down mean? The other uses of "touch" in the article seem to link it to the status of being out of bounds (A ball in touch is dead, consequently the side that touches it down must bring it to the edge of the touch and throw it straight out from touch), but gravity guarantees that a ball going between the rouge flags will eventually land in the out-of-bounds area, so I'm missing something. Nyttend (talk) 11:33, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

This "rouge" seems to be like a behind (Australian rules football)#Scoring. I agree that the Canadian football concept is irrelevant and should not be linked to, except perhaps to say that it is nothing like it. --76.69.46.228 (talk) 01:21, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

'Eton’s ‘rouge’, whereby “when a player has kicked the ball beyond the opponents’ goal line, whoever first touches the ball when it is on the ground with his hand may have a free kick bringing the ball straight out from the goal line.” Effectively, this was exactly the same thing as the ‘try at goal’ in rugby'. Laying down the laws: The Football Association is born Alansplodge (talk) 21:45, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

And if you read a bit further in our article, you come to Single (football)#Other football codes which specifically mentions the "rouge" in the Sheffield Code. I have added a brief note about the early FA. Alansplodge (talk) 22:01, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Vilook.com

Looking for something stupid I stumbled across a search result at vilook.com and found a site which seems to have a large amount of searchable video content, delivering dozens of videos for fairly specific keywords. It claims millions of views for some of its videos on the front page. But I never heard of it before, see nothing on Wikipedia, nothing on news aggregators, there's a (possibly spam) report here claiming no real readership or value -- which doesn't mean anything, except it came up above any other result. Archive.org indicates it has been going since 2016. [1] What I'm trying to figure out is whether it is a serious competitor to YouTube and whether we ought to have an article about it, among other things. Wnt (talk) 21:13, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

I did a Google News search for vilook and vilook.com and found nothing; that doesn't bode too well. Their Facebook group has... 992 members. Straight Googling doesn't even get you their homepage - the FB page is the top result. Wnt, you've been on WP long enough to know how this works - even if this isn't by some reason a fake-out, how were you going to write an article with no sources? Matt Deres (talk) 23:35, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

I was initially suspicious that Google was hiding hits because they compete with YouTube. The site actually has good content, like [2]. But there's actually a simpler explanation: it appears the site somehow mirrors or reroutes YouTube traffic (like [3] - the same video, but with ads), despite having a very different appearance. Because the site has been up at its domain for three years, whatever it is doing must use a genuine legal loophole for whatever country it's based in. Still mystified why this hasn't made some kind of news. Wnt (talk) 06:17, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

March 4

Request: Hollywood Reporter December 28th 1978 (Superman takes $3.22m one day) article

Hi, I am user Starmarco2014 and im trying to contact user Sudiani with no success. He did a Revision as of 05:15, 24 March 2018 in The film Jaws 2 Box Office Wikipedia page with this reference: 'Superman' takes $3.2 mil one day | work = The Hollywood Reporter | date = December 28, 1978 | page = 1.

Im trying to contact him cause I want a copy from this Hollywood Reporter article. Do you know how can I find him or have access to this article? The Hollywood Reporter team said they don't have it. Thanks for your attention Marco. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Starmarco2014 (talk • contribs) 02:46, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Suggest you post this at WP:RX. --Viennese Waltz 09:16, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

SOURCE OF EMMA NEVADA PHOTO

The first of the two photos in the Emma Nevada entry carries the caption "Emma Nevada in 1885". I am looking for information about this photo: photographer, studio, publication, etc. There are many instances of this photo online, but your's is the only one that has even a bit of information ("in 1885"). Can you tell me anything about the source of this photo or of the info you provided about it? Thanks. 73.135.180.98 (talk) 13:38, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

The source as listed is here. Wikimedia Commons has this category, and Library of Congress has an etching here. Tamanoeconomico (talk) 17:01, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Two more images here. Tamanoeconomico (talk) 17:06, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

March 5

tv series have been sold in the greatest number of countries

what tv series have been sold in the greatest number of countries woldwide?--87.27.156.88 (talk) 10:49, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Do you mean series like Star Trek which has been broadcast in many countries or Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? which has been remade in many countries? Perhaps both? --TrogWoolley (talk) 13:11, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Our article says that Top Gear has been sold in 214 territories, which the reference claims is a Guinness world record. BbBrock (talk) 13:14, 5 March 2019 (UTC)