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November 12

Jellyfish - Ignorance is Bliss

Hello, I recently heard this beautiful song, but the problem is, that my only favorite parts are 0:00 - 0:15 because of the smooth, emotional jazz beat, was this sampled from some another song? or is there a song with a very similar sound as in the intro or the same? I don't like it until in the end again cause of that emotional instrumental part. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlC6i6DPdnU (this is the song.) Thank you.

November 13

Movie name

There was a movie that I watched many years ago when I was little. I can't quite remember the name. The movie is probably made in 1990s or 2000s. The movie is set in the future, where humans are nearly wiped out by those flying red (or orange, don't remember exactly) creatures. They look very much like a flying red or orange soul, and they can kill humans by going through their bodies. The humans fight them by using some robot suits that resembles those in "Edge of Tomorrow", except it's a lot bigger if I remember correctly. There were also some laser guns. There is a safe city (likely the last safe place) for humans that is carefully guarded. Everything someone goes out of the area, before they can come back in, they have to go through some scanning processes. In the end, the flying creatures somehow successfully breached into the last safe city and nearly killed everyone. If I remember correct, there are about 1-2 people surviving at the end. Any name suggestion is appreciated. I can check and confirm any name being suggested. Thanks! 146.151.83.253 (talk) 03:43, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

never mind my question. I found the name of it already lol.146.151.83.253 (talk) 05:47, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It might be helpful if you post the title here. That way your question and answer can still help inform others. SemanticMantis (talk) 17:22, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It would be especially useful to those of us who are dying to know what a flying red or orange soul looks like. —08:25, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

For anyone still waiting ;) - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within would be a good bet, fitting all mentioned criteria. Google image search has a few images of the "ghosts". GermanJoe (talk) 05:17, 18 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Baseball statistical leaders as of a certain date

Is there anywhere online that lets you view MLB seasonal statistical leaderboards on a specific mid-season date (e.g. who had played the most games or gotten the most hits as of September 1, 1965)? I figured baseball-reference would offer this feature, but if it does, I wasn't able to find it. Any sort of indirect workaround, like a way to find this information for a particular statistic for a particular player one at a time, would also be welcome. Thanks in advance! -Elmer Clark (talk) 19:00, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't done any digging, but http://www.retrosheet.org/ is pretty good for baseball stats. --Jayron32 19:16, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you can find a daily newspaper that regularly publishes the statistics you want, you could look for the September 2, 1965, issue of that paper at a public or university library. They may have it on microfilm or in scanned form. (Scanned back issues of some papers can also be found on the web, but generally only smaller ones unless you can access them through a library you belong to.) --174.88.134.249 (talk) 23:19, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm quite familiar with both retrosheet.org and baseball-reference,com, and unfortunately neither site has this information. With B-Ref, you can find the standings for any date in major league history (here are the results for September 1, 1965 [1]), but there is no feature that allows you to look up the statistical leaders on that date. If you have a lot of time on your hands, both sites have game-by-game statistical breakdowns for a most seasons, so you could generate the information for a specific date by simply looking up what the stats for each player in the league were on that day. The data exists, it's just that no one has yet designed a program to generate the information in the form you want. The designers of Baseball-reference love to find new ways to use the databases they have compiled, however, so you may contact them and see if they could help out (there is a contact form on the site). --Xuxl (talk) 15:10, 14 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

November 14

One Direction

Does anyone in One Direction write their own songs or play their own instruments? --SolliGwaa (talk) 20:52, 14 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you open the article about any One Direction album, you can look to see who the songwriters for every song are. Their first album Up All Night (One Direction album) has songs the members wrote or co-wrote. Insofar as voice is an actual instrument, they also do that as well. --Jayron32 00:38, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Worth noting that credits on an album don't actually mean much. At that level, contributing the change of a word is enough to get co-writing points on the album. See, for example, Madonna's Ray of Light album--William Orbit wrote virtually every note, but she gets a credit for small pieces added. Album credits are much like movie credits--the bigger the act, the more credits they will receive on the final product. Ipsissima Verba (talk) 05:16, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

They have a regular touring band - here, here, etc. - who tour with them and provide onstage instrumentation. Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:56, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Avid Directioner here bc what else is a teenage fangirl to do, but I know for certain having attended multiple concerts that Niall Horan, the Irish left-handed lad who's scared of pigeons, frequently plays guitar on stage. zayn is still bae tho ~Helicopter Llama~ 01:26, 18 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

November 16

sports

I would like to have an article on the topic. "sports for girls in the ancient days" and "sports for girls in the modern days". --Sadie666 (talk) 06:28, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sports for girls in the modern days would be a very short article that simply says "All of them". —Nelson Ricardo (talk) 06:36, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We have an article on Women's sports. The section on ancient civilizations requires expansion.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 12:00, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to object that there's no women's decathlon, Nelson, but apparently there is. We also have a Timeline of women's sports, but it lists nothing before 1780 and suffers from rather poor coverage of women's sports outside of America. --Antiquary (talk) 14:10, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I recently saw a contestant on a quiz show talking about the 1970s, which was, according to her, "before they had electricity". So, in her world view, 1780 is truly ancient. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 20:17, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

On a different tack from the "inclusion of women in previously all-male sports" line, rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming are strictly women's sports at the hightest level (i.e., the Olympics). Deor (talk) 22:06, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Women do not participate in professional sumo wrestling. Apparently there used to be "a form of female sumo or onnazumo" though "in the cities it was more of a spectacle often associated with brothels", according to our article on controversies in professional sumo, subsection "Women and sumo". ---Sluzzelin talk 22:24, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sadie! The great thing about Wikipedia is that it's an encyclopedia that anyone can create and edit - including you. Have a look through Women's sports and the associated pages and talk pages to get an idea of scope and format and so on. The, be WP:BOLD and try writing an article yourself. I highly suggest you do so within your own personal sandbox, here (basically it's a safe area for you to play around in while you figure out how things work). Also, give a look WP:YOURFIRSTARTICLE for some great tips. After you're done some reading and thinking, you may decide to just expand an existing article instead - and that's great too! Matt Deres (talk) 17:14, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

November 17

mtg: are planeswalkers' mana source abilities usable only during main phases?

mtg: are planeswalkers' mana source abilities usable only during main phases? thanx --192.35.17.11 (talk) 18:20, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Translation, please. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 18:50, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"mtg" = Magic: The Gathering, "planeswalkers" = powerful wizard-type character in the game, "mana" = magic points or units of magical power, "main phase" = part of turn between the "beginning phase" and the "combat phase". No idea on the answer. ---Sluzzelin talk 18:58, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This forum says "Activated abilities of planeswalkers can only be played when you could play a sorcery. So no, you can't play it during your opponent's turn." [2], [3] - I think this is basically the same as main phase, because I don't think you can play a sorcery outside of main phase. But I haven't played the game in over a decade, so you might want to ask at a specific MTG forum, like one of the two I linked above. SemanticMantis (talk) 20:38, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Strangely enough, we have an article on it: Magic: The Gathering rules#Planeswalkers says "a single planeswalker may only use one loyalty ability once per turn, and only on its controller's turn during his or her main phase." Organics ^talk 09:55, 18 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]