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February 25

Maximum number of T20 and ODI games

What is maximum number of T20 test games does a full member of International Cricket Council can play to face with another full member? What is maximum number of ODI test games does a full member of International Cricket Council can play to face with another full member? --Donmust90-- Donmust90 (talk) 01:13, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

I don't understand the question. In theory, there is no limit to the number of games, over a long enough period of time, assuming the [version of the] sport survives. England and Australia have played 361 Tests against one another so far since 1877. --Dweller (talk) Old fashioned is the new thing! 11:43, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

One thing's bothering me about the 1939 Wizard of Oz. (resolved)

EDIT: I got my answers so no need to go on. You are free to keep posting comments, but no more are needed. Thanks for the help. Blaze The Movie Fan (talk) 06:15, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

King Kong (1933) proves that they did have the technology back then to not make it look like people were just in costumes.

So why is it that it's so obvious they are wearing costumes?

And that was a high budget movie at the top of it, which makes this even more confusing. It's close to impossible to see any of the animals on Kong Island are fake in the 1933 movie, that's how great it looked.

Look, I know technology wasn't as advanced back then as it is now. That's why I brought up a movie that came the same decade and years before in the same decade. Blaze The Movie Fan (talk) 04:27, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Perhaps because they immediately proved they weren't real animals by talking. HiLo48 (talk) 04:42, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

I mean the dinosaur in the 1933 King Kong movie wasn't a real animal either, but it was hard to tell it wasn't a real dinosaur. Blaze The Movie Fan (talk) 04:44, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

To me, stop-motion has always looked fakey. But what is it about TWOZ that's bothering you, specifically? Are you saying they should have had the scarecrow, tin man and lion as stop-motion? I don't think that would have worked at all. As HiLo says, they have to talk. And they also have to relate back to their human counterparts in Kansas. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:58, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Ok, first thing's first, even if so what else were they supposed to do? The advanced computers most people use today didn't exist back then. What else could they do back in the 1930's? Genuine question.

Second, well, I want it to not look like it's just people in costumes. I guess that was impossible back then without slow motion. I get it now thanks for answering my question. Blaze The Movie Fan (talk) 06:14, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

To create suspense, the animals in King Kong had to look realistic. They were animated with stop motion,^[1] a not super high-tech method realized with puppets for King Kong and claymation for the dinosaurs. The Wizard of Oz is like a fairy tale, aimed at children. There was no need to make the Cowardly Lion look like a real lion, which (to remain realistic) could not have interacted with the other characters as required by the script.  --Lambiam 06:03, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

February 27

Is there a name for this?

"Guy who you would expect to be silent in a conversation but ends up speaking anyway" trope. Example:
Hero: Okay, this guy's gotta go.
Police officer: (insert celebrity imitation here of them saying "I agree")
Criminal: Hey, is that (celebrity police officer was imitating)?
Police officer: Yeah. Now move along.
TWOrantula^TM (enter the web) 05:39, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Where have you seen this? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 07:19, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Why not ask the good folks at TV Tropes? They might be able to help you figure this out. Pablothepenguin (talk) 12:22, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Good idea. I'm gonna ask them TWOrantula^TM (enter the web) 14:34, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

In particular, TV Tropes has (or once had) a page titled YTTTW (You Know That Thing Where...) for such questions. —Tamfang (talk) 00:45, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

IDK I just keep seeing it on a lot of television shows I watch. TWOrantula^TM (enter the web) 14:35, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Can you provide an example or two? It occurs to me that one thing it could be called is "lazy writing" - going to the same ideas over and over. Like the countless times various characters will say, "I get that." ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:43, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I was up at like 11:00 PM. I remember seeing this on Superstore:
Jonah does an impression of Kelly, and then she does an impression of Glenn. Kelly leaves. A random guy with a shopping cart appears out of nowhere and says he could do an accurate impression of someone. TWOrantula^TM (enter the web) 15:00, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Are you asking more about the silent character who suddenly speaks or about someone doing an impression. For a silent character who suddenly speaks, a classic example is Silent Bob. Jay even explains the trope being that because he doesn't speak, when he suddenly does, it is supposed to be deep and meaningful, but it really isn't. 12.116.29.106 (talk) 17:33, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm asking about the silent character who suddenly speaks. TWOrantula^TM (enter the web) 00:40, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

"Hi, I'm Larry. This is my brother, Darryl, and this is my other brother, Darryl." Both Darryls speak for the first (and last) time in the final episode of Newhart. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:02, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Another famous example is mime Marcel Marceau, who is, I think, the only actor with a spoken line in "Silent Movie". Xuxl (talk) 14:31, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

The only audible line; other mouths do move, and have lines shown on cards. —Tamfang (talk) 00:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

In one scene Mel appears to say "You dirty rotten son of a bitch!" and the card reads "You bad boy." —Tamfang (talk) 00:46, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

This is a complicated trope. I found this, which goes into details of all the variants. 75.136.148.8 (talk) 13:45, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Cad (sport)

Do we have an article that covers this sport? Rugby union includes this phrase, to which I've just added a link:

Medieval Irishmen played cad, carrying an inflated bladder and using arched trees as goals.

There's nothing sport-related at Cad (disambiguation), but an entire sport not having an article seems unlikely, so I wondered if maybe it's covered under a different name. Initially I thought it might be vandalism or a typo, but the online source confirms it. Nyttend (talk) 19:48, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

The article is Caid (sport). There's no indication as to whether cad is an accepted (English) spelling of caid. --Wrongfilter (talk) 20:20, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

I've added the sport to Cad (disambiguation). But the OED Online has no listing for either "cad" or "caid" with this sense. --142.112.220.50 (talk) 05:33, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Just to add that the word caid is Gaelic. Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:00, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

February 28

Chord accompaniments for certain melodies

Listen to the video at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=848K8n7l2sE

The melody they are playing is mostly in the key of A major, but there is one note that (very briefly) takes the song out of the key. It is F. If it were an F♯, it would be easy to see what chord progression accompanies this melody. The chords would be A-D-E7-A. But the F natural means the short melody briefly modulates from A major to C major (and then back to A major briefly after.) The best chord progression here is A-G7-E7-A. Does this make sense?? (If not, please reveal the best chord progression for this melody.) Georgia guy (talk) 14:56, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

The fragment has been transposed from Bach's C minor to D minor. Strangely, the piece opens in C minor but ends on the G major chord – after transposition the A major chord, A–C♯-E. This can also be analyzed as being in the scale of A minor, but with a Picardy third; it is ambiguous. This YouTube video offers a harmonic analysis of the piece; the last beat of measure 42 is analyzed as vii⁷, the diminished seventh chord on, after transposition, G♯.  --Lambiam 14:01, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

February 29

Away goals rule

Hi everyone. Having read the regulations of 2023–24 Croatian Football Cup at the Federation's pages, I noticed that the two-legged final will apply the away goals rule.

And it got me wondering: which other European tournaments still apply the rule? I know that it's been abolished in all European *international* competitions for the past four years or so, but obviously domestic ones have some manoeuvering space. Splićanin (talk) 05:29, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

March 1

Feet glued to floor

In this film clip, Shirley Temple doesn't move her feet, and we know she could dance. Neither did the people in blackface behind her. (Not here to talk about the blackface.) Why no foot movement? HiLo48 (talk) 07:59, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Huh? Just because someone can dance doesn't mean they dance all the time, especially if she's supposed to be singing, which is not easy to do at the same time. She's just doing what she's told to do by the director. Shantavira|^{feed me} 15:30, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

To me it seems a very unnatural lack of movement. Why would the director ask for that? HiLo48 (talk) 22:03, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Of course she did what the director told her, but it is a bit puzzling that he chose to make the scene so static. In many other films Temple dances or skips around while doing a song, so it is reasonable to wonder if there is some plausible rationale for this directorial decision.  --Lambiam 00:36, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

She does rock on her feet a little bit. The context of this clip appears to be rehearsal of a play, or possibly an audition. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:56, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

A quick flick through YouTube finds plenty of examples of ST singing but not dancing, or dancing but not singing and a few where she does both but only for a short duration - one has her standing to sing most of the song with a quick tap routine during the final chorus. As pointed out above, singing and dancing at the same time causes breath control issues. Alansplodge (talk) 12:18, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

The staged play shown in the scene may have been inspired by George L. Aiken's very popular stage adaption of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a Tom show that included musical numbers. In its first run, in 1852, the star role of Little Eva was performed by child actress Cordelia Howard. Apparently, here the role is assumed by Sylvia Dolores "Dimples" Appleby.  --Lambiam 13:15, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Apparently, while in the film Dimples does play Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin, the scene with the song "Get on Board" occurs much earlier in the film,^[2] so the film scene may have depicted a rehearsal for the play.  --Lambiam 13:36, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

So it seems that the notion that she always sang and danced at the same time is a myth based on stereotypical movie clips. As Little Eva, would Shirley's character have donned blackface for the actual production? (Meanwhile, if she started doing The Loco-Motion, that would be quite a story). ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:24, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

As described by Stowe, Evangeline St. Clare had golden-brown hair and violet blue eyes and was fair and pale, so I guess she was meant to be white.  --Lambiam 22:36, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

She does some mean tapdancing up and down the stairs.  --Lambiam 22:40, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

And does various movements with her upper body. Sort of dancing in place. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 16:21, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

What an odd question. It's not a dance number. That's why she's not dancing. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 16:07, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

March 4

Left-wing football clubs Europe

Which football clubs are known to have supporters who are left-wing leaning like the ones for St Pauli Hamburg, Marseille, Athens, Livorno, Liverpool and Barcelona, in the following nations: Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. --Donmust90-- Donmust90 (talk) 23:54, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Are you asking about the clubs, like in your section heading, or the fans, like in your question? --Dweller (talk) Old fashioned is the new thing! 11:32, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

If being a mobilizing force for anti-Erdogan protests counts as left-leaning, Beşiktaş, based in the European side of Istanbul, has a strong left-leaning supporter group known as Çarşı.  --Lambiam 21:30, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

March 5

Why do so many national teams wear non-flag colors?

With a little creativity all >200 countries and dependencies could theoretically wear one to all their flag colors (more or less, a tie-dye, Jackson Pollock, camo etc could technically have few or no pixels of a flag color but be a flag color or similar color on average, or heck a bicolor could do a Croatia with each square its own shade pattern so only each square would be flag color-ish on average) without any of the home uniforms looking alike. Also why is it that when national teams *do* want to wear flag colors cause they are and it'd also be possible for the goalies to wear a flag color without any of the 4 groups not contrasting with each other or with stereotypical referee clothes, then why don't they do that? Sometimes they force at least 1 goalie to wear a non-flag color the rest of the team never wears when they don't have to. Do the 5 groups all have to contrast to colorblind people too? For instance the first 22 World Cup game the goalies could've worn white and blue but actually wore bright green and salmon. Salmon is actually a more similar color to Qatar's red than Ecuadorian blue would've been. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 22:31, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

In Australia's case, the flag is in colours imposed on the nation by the British, red, white and blue. The official National colours of Australia, most often used in sports uniforms, are green and gold, reflecting the colours of the golden wattle. The use of green and gold began at least as far back as 1899, actually predating the flag which was adopted in 1901. HiLo48 (talk) 22:58, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

I mistakenly assumed they weren't your national colors. Australia makes sport a bit less unbalanced (some colors/combos have so many sports teams or national flags while other good colors/combos are much rarer than random chance) Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 03:15, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Pittsburgh flag. Also the colors of Hapsburg monarchy and all 3 Pittsburgh teams

A rare color

New York City flag. 3+ sports have an orange+blue NYC team

An early use of green and gold for Australia was in the Baggy green, the cap still worn by the Australian Cricket Team. They played as Australia before Australia officially existed as a country. HiLo48 (talk) 04:05, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

HiLo48, the Australian National Flag (or an earlier similar version thereof) was chosen by Australians in a nation-wide competition in 1901. In 1903 a slightly modified version was approved by King Edward VII (the current version dates from 1908). I don't think it's true to say that it was imposed on us by the British. The King had the final say, but unless it had offended certain traditional flag rules or protocols, he essentially rubber-stamped the Australian decision. It wasn't his idea to include the Union Jack in the upper left quarter, that was all Australia's idea; we were all proud and loyal British subjects back then anyway. (We were still waving more Union Jacks than Australian flags when the Queen made her first few visits to Australia in the 1950s and '60s, even though by then we had become Australian citizens and she was visiting in her capacity as Queen of Australia, not as Queen of the UK.) -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 22:50, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

The Australian National Flag#1901_Federal_Flag_Design_Competition|1901 Federal Flag Design Competition section of that article you linked goes into considerable detail on how the flag was chosen. It was the result of a competition, rather than a vote by all Australians. I don't know who the judges for the competition were, but we do know from that article that entries were judged on seven criteria: loyalty to the Empire, Federation, history, heraldry, distinctiveness, utility and cost of manufacture. Meeting that first criterion of loyalty to the Empire pretty much meant using British colours. A green and gold flag just wouldn't have matched those criteria. HiLo48 (talk) 00:04, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

All true. (I never mentioned a vote, but a nation-wide competition.) But the competition and its criteria was not something imposed on us by the British, that's all I'm saying. Even if the criteria were skewed in favour of the British Empire, it was still we who chose the flag ourselves. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 01:08, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

American teams (other than a national team) will choose whatever colors they feel like using. I can think of several teams that use purple, besides the Vikings: Baltimore Ravens, Colorado Rockies, LSU Tigers, Northwestern Wildcats, and probably a number of others. As for Pittsburgh, the Steelers wore black and gold from the beginning, while the Pirates adopted those colors in the mid-1950s. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:18, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

But that's purely about teams in domestic competitions. I think the original question was about national teams. HiLo48 (talk) 04:36, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Then why post the city flags? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:37, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Ah. Good question. Obviously most teams in domestic competitions will not wear the colours of their national flag. HiLo48 (talk) 04:57, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Unless it's coincidental. The Chicago Cubs wear red-white-and-blue, and while they're popular across the nation, they are not a national team otherwise. Some other MLB teams wearing RW&B include the Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox and Texas Rangers. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:06, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

I couldn't find any current national flags with black and yellow, orange and blue, orange, blue and white or more than 0.3% purple Dominica 0.3% is apparently the record. I don't know if any countries wear any of these. There are no flags over 6% brown either. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 05:35, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

I note that Slovenia plays in green and white, whereas there is no green on its flag. In this case, I believe it's to distinguish itself from all its neighbours, whose flag colors are also predominantly red, white and blue. In the case of Italy playing in blue, I believe that use of the colour predates the adoption of the green/white/red national flag. You'll probably find similar explanations for most other seeming exceptions. Xuxl (talk) 13:34, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

National colours of Italy, Savoy blue and Flag of Italy say red white green is decades older than blue which is the House of Savoy color from Italian unification in 1861 to demonarchization in 1946 but it was the color of the Savoy-ruled part of Italy since before red white green was a thing. And that Italian athletes started wearing blue when playing Hungary (a red white green country) on 6 Jan 1911. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 14:40, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

The Netherlands flag is red, white and blue. Most of its sports teams paly in orange. HiLo48 (talk) 22:35, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Cause from c. 1575 to a slow end 1630~1660 the red was the color of William of Orange (same dynasty as today). But that flag's apparently now mostly either Hitler puppet sympathizers or historical reenacters but solid orange is safe. So 1614-1652 is why a small blob of USA's the only part of Earth where so many places' current flags are "Dutch or French except orange & something superimposed". Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 03:13, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

The England national football team play predominantly in white and blue, whereas the flag of England is white and red. Alansplodge (talk) 13:48, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

I was surprised to learn only the New Zealand soccer second colors is all black. The preferred kit is almost all white. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 01:44, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

You expect the All Whites to primarily play in all black? Nil Einne (talk) 13:38, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Well with their most famous team being All Blacks wouldn't they want to copy the rugby? The newfangled ODI and T20 is also black. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 14:22, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Well as poorly explained in our article New_Zealand_men's_national_football_team#Kit, and better in sources [3] [4], play in an all black kit was not possible for a long time since it was the colour used by referees until 1994. And by the time an all black strip was I assume okay, the white strip and nickname was iconic enough that a change was unlikely. I mean as reflected in the sources, even now when there are actual reasons why the nickname is controversial, getting rid of it is equally controversial. But perhaps not so well explained in those sources, despite the long history of black being associated with NZ sports teams popularised in particular by the All Blacks [5], the trend of nearly every single NZ sports team having black as their colour is I think fairly recent. This [6] suggests around the turn of the millennium. The Black Caps famously used a beige kit once Beige Brigade, although coloured clothing in limited-overs cricket was fairly recent anyway arising from the World Series Cricket (see also History of cricket). Mind you, a lot of the international sports tournaments are some what recent anyway, so previously matches were much more restricted to friendlies and invitational tournaments, and the Olympics for sports which were part of that, so I'm not sure whether there even was a clearly defined colour for the teams once we start to hit the 1970s and earlier especially for NZ given our small size and isolation meant we were away from teams of Europe and the Americas, and in the absence of existing sporting links (like there was for cricket, rugby and some other sports) the games we'd play was probably limited. Nil Einne (talk) 10:36, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

I remember seeing black NZ uniforms in the Olympics. In America a team might be able to get away with wearing all black as referees wear vertical black and white zebra stripes in most sports (not baseball. Their uniform is now dark shades almost as casual as jeans uniform getting more formal the further in the past till there's an 1852 drawing of an umpire in top hat, suit and tie. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 19:59, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

March 8

Electric Blue Series Song

First of all , I wanna say sorry for my bad English. I hope it is enough to understand my questions.

Many years ago during my youth, it must have been the beginning of the 2000s, I saw a series on the German TV Channel RTL2 called Electric Blue. Electric Blue is an erotic series that was produced by the Playboychannel in the early 1980s.

Personally, I never was a fan of erotic videos and discovered the series while zapping. But I stayed a little longer that evening because a kind of music video was playing. In this music video, a band played a song called "Electric Blue" at a swimming pool. The whole thing was a pop song in which "Electric Blue" was sung for a long time in the chorus. The genre of the song was rock/pop and sounds not uncommon for the early eightys. The song was play in a middle up to fast speed.

Anyway, I really liked the song and I've been looking for it for quite some time.

Does anyone have any information about which episode of the series that was or even a link where the song is played. Thanks for any help. --2A02:810A:18C0:10AC:C2F7:CA7C:32EC:F68D (talk) 14:48, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

A production company named "Electric Blue" produced many soft-porn videos through the 80s and 90s. The theme song for the series was "The Warning" by Broadsword. However, it is possible that you are looking for a specific song in a specific video they produced. 75.136.148.8 (talk) 16:50, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Help identifying an album from one of the Billboard 200 § Year-end charts

For context, I'm currently working my way through these charts and making link lists to the albums' Wikipedia articles. I started with the 2002 chart, the earliest one currently available at billboard.com, and am now about two thirds of the way to the most recent one. For the first time, there's an entry I'm having trouble getting to grips with.

There have been a handful of previous occasions when it wasn't immediately clear which of several similarly-titled non-studio albums an entry referred to, courtesy of Billboard's failure to include release years in their charts. But all that was needful was to check the data in each candidate album article's "Charts" section against the year and position in question.

There have also been occasions when an album didn't have an article, but there's such a strong correlation between Billboard-charting albums and Wikipedia-notable albums that those too were only a handful - I haven't kept count, but I'd say very certainly less than 3%, and quite possibly less than 1%. More importantly, for my purposes, there has been zero overlap between the former and the latter handful.

But enough with the generalities, the point is that I don't seem to be getting anywhere with 2016's #155. The billboard.com version (see billboard.com/charts/year-end/2016/top-billboard-200-albums, but may be paywalled) says this:

• Cover: [7]
• Album: The Very Best Of The Eagles
• Artist: Eagles

The print version (see e.g. page "133"/136 in scan worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/00s/2016/Billboard-2016-12-17-(Double-Issue).pdf) says this:

• Album: THE VERY BEST OF THE EAGLES
• Artist: Eagles
• Label: Warner Strategic Marketing/Rhino

Eagles discography § Compilation albums says there are two albums with that precise title, but neither charted at all in the US. One of them has an article, which says it wasn't even released in the US. So probably not one of them. The next-closest title match is The Very Best Of (Eagles album), but there are a couple of reasons that make me doubt that that is the one either.

Firstly, the covers don't match. However, chances are the Billboard one is wrong. It reads "The Best of Eagles", which title does appear in the Wikipedia discography as well, and a discogs search confirms that the cover art matches the album with that title. Like the first two, this one didn't chart in the US. So probably not that one.

Secondly, going by the article, it doesn't seem particularly plausible for that album to chart in 2016. It was released in late 2003 and made it onto the year-end list once, in 2004. The most recent RIAA certification (see the US ref in § Certifications) reads "5x Platinum | February 22, 2008". For comparison, for another "Eagles" compiation, Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975), which is 2016's #146, less than 10 positions apart, the most recent certification reads "38x Platinum | August 20, 2018". For Creedence's Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits, 2016's #156, directly below, there are new certifications in 2016 and 2023.

Thirdly, as just mentioned, that album does appear on the 2004 chart. From what I've seen, whenever an album appears more than once, the name never deviates, down to the capitalization and punctuation. Using the same comparison case as before, which appears a bunch of times, it's always "Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975", never "Their Greatest Hits: 1971-1975" or "Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)" or whatever. But the (print) entry for 2004 is this:

• Album: THE VERY BEST OF
• Artist: Eagles
• Label: Warner Strategic Marketing

(Clearly, capitalization does differ between the online and print versions, but let's call that a stylistic matter.) So probably different albums... at least as far as Billboard's database is concerned.

Neither the Wikipedia discography nor another discogs search supply more candidates, though.

That's as far as I've gotten. Apologies for the long read, any help appreciated!

- 89.183.221.75 (talk) 21:02, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Quick follow-up: The same chart confuses BLACKsummers'night and blackSUMMERS'night - easy to do, of course, but another first. Maybe they were just being overall sloppier that time 'round, for whatever reason. - 89.183.221.75 (talk) 23:53, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

March 10

Soviet film

Can anyone identify a rather bleak film, possibly made post-2000, set in the Arctic circle. Three men are staffing a radar or weather station whose power source is a nuclear reactor the size of a small car. Two leave by snowmobile for a scheduled staff changeover, but the expected replacement never arrives. The lone remainder deliberately opens the reactor, presumably to kill himself by radiation. Doug butler (talk) 02:32, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

If it was made in this century, it is not a Soviet film.  --Lambiam 16:19, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Agreed. A poor choice of title, as I realised after hitting "Submit". Doug butler (talk) 19:49, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Maybe How I Ended This Summer (Как я провёл этим летом)? Alansplodge (talk) 17:34, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

That would certainly be it. Thanks once again. Doug butler (talk)

The article describes the setting as a "Soviet-era weather station", so the remembrance of it as a "Soviet film" is understandable. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 51.198.186.221 (talk) 20:16, 10 March 2024 (UTC)