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July 1

Name of a song

I've heard this song a few times now, and I don't know what it's called. The chorus goes, "Into your heart (arms?) and you're too late" and the genre is rock. The singer(s) is/are male. There's a part when the music stops and the chorus is sung a cappella. Can anyone help me out? Eagles 24/7 (C) 04:12, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You Give Love A Bad Name? --Frumpo (talk) 07:21, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If so, it's actually "Shot through the heart and you're to blame"--Frumpo (talk) 07:24, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yep that's it, thanks. ;D Eagles 24/7 (C) 15:56, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dr house

When is AXN-India going to broadcast the new season 6th of Dr house in India, i am sure like me there would be lakhs of fans who must be waiting desperately? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Imran7573 (talk • contribs) 10:07, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can you identify a Liv Ullmann film?

Which film is being referred to in the Momus song "What Will Death Be Like?" when he sings: "Death will be unlike the sea as it thunders on Liv Ullmann vanishing under the rollers"? --85.211.145.215 (talk) 11:14, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good TV

I'm looking to buy a new TV mainly used for gaming. I really don't know much in this area. I looking for LCD with good graphics. Anyone have suggestions? Price range is 1k-2k and around 50 inch. Money is tight (talk) 14:56, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For gaming, I strongly suggest getting p instead of i. While all i televisions have flicker suppression, I still see it. So, look at the standard line of 42" 1080p televisions. The price range will run between $500 and $1500. The cheapest ones will have low luminosity, slow refresh, and very little contrast between the whitest white and blackest black. -- kainaw ™ 15:00, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As regards brands, you will no doubt get many different opinions. FWIW I find Sony and Panasonic models overpriced, and Samsung models reasonably priced and reliable. --Viennese Waltz ^talk 15:04, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to save money, you could investigate getting a 720p television rather than a 1080i or 1080p television. Game developers are told by certain console manufacturers that users can't tell the difference between 720p and 1080p HDTVs when playing a game, and most developers instruct their console to use a 720p graphics buffer, for speed and memory reasons; so a 1080p display won't improve such games' graphics. Of course you should compare personally. Comet Tuttle (talk) 16:35, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In addition to whether the console cares about 1080p vs 720p, I recommend you go to a store and see if you care about 1080p vs 720p. In my experience, I can't spot the difference on a 50-inch screen at a distance of about 4 feet -- and that's trying to spot the difference. The distance at which I would actually care is even less, and the distance at which I sit is substantially more. — Lomn 16:56, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Question regarding licenses

Hello, I intend to translate a number of songs which were written between 1900 and 1950 in South America. These lyrics are widely available in several websites/internet. My question is: can I create a wikipedia article/articles by just copying the original lyrics, indicating the authors and the year they were published and then provide a translation? The authors are most likely dead however, they have not been dead for 70 years as requested in one of the wikipedia Q's and A's. Thanks for the advice. Dichi5 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dichi5 (talk • contribs) 22:33, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, this doesn't sound like a Wikipedia article, whether or not the lyrics have fallen into the public domain or not. See WP:FIRST for a guide to creating your first article. Any song article has to satisfy the guidelines at WP:MUSIC to avoid getting deleted. As WP:MUSIC says, most songs don't have sufficient notability to merit an article, and if you create an article about a non-notable song, it will end up getting deleted. As an example of a very short song article that seems to have been deemed notable enough, see Runnin' With The Devil, and at the other extreme, All You Need Is Love (The JAMs song) is a featured article, which has been worked on until it's in the class of the best articles on Wikipedia. Comet Tuttle (talk) 23:15, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply. I still believe my article will have merit as it will be helpful to those who are trying to understand the hidden meaning of certain lyrics. A local jargon is used by the composers and only those of us who understand the jargon can explain the lyrics to people from other backgrounds. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dichi5 (talk • contribs) 13:15, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You might have better luck writing an article about the jargon, with examples, than writing individual articles about the songs, unless they are provably notable. An article on the local jargon in which the songs are written, with examples of how it is used, could be very interesting, and also allows you to include quotes from the songs without reproducing them entirely. 86.164.57.20 (talk) 15:42, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

TV show displaying patterns of abuse

I was watching Supernanny on YouTube. The family being observed was the Davis family. They were the family in which the father was seen cursing and swearing at, and striking his children. What he did was very shocking and uncalled for. I read comments. A few of them said on an episode of Inside Edition, that family was under police investigation for child abuse. Some comments also said the father went to jail and the mother is also going for neglect. Apparently she allowed the abuse to happen and did nothing to try and stop it. The children went into foster care. Where was the real father of the mother's oldest daughter? (The Davis father is actually the oldest daughter's stepfather.) What's going on with the family right now?24.90.202.208 (talk) 22:40, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]