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March 16[edit]

How to cite a TV program shown on CNN / how to find the title, editor, etc[edit]

Hi. Some time ago (around Mar 5) I happened to see a program on CNN about different genocides in recent times (about Darfur, Rwanda, Bosnia, etc). I made some notes about the program and now I would like to cite some of the things mentioned in the program in an academic essay for university. But how do I make the correct reference? I do not know at all what the name of the program was, who the director was, or even when exactly the program was shown. I just know that it was shown on English-speaking CNN around Mar 5 (or maybe a couple of days earlier). Is there any way to find the details of that program? According to the Harvard Referencing System, I need the title of program, the name of Director/Program Editor or Producer, the location of Production Company and the name of Broadcasting Company. Thank you very much in advance for your help! --Tilmanb (talk) 01:23, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Could it have been a repeat of Christiane Amanpour's Scream Bloody Murder? Clarityfiend (talk) 03:14, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

YES! Wow, that was quick! =) Now I just need to confirm the name of Director/Program Editor or Producer, the location of Production Company and the name of Broadcasting Company. AND IMPORTANTLY: A confirmation somewhere that this was indeed the documentary shown in March 2010 (and not just in 2008). Thank you so much! --Tilmanb (talk) 03:36, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Or maybe I just write down what I know by now. How would this reference look like:

Scream Bloody Murder (2010, Mar 5) [TV Documentary]. Program Producer: Christiane Amanpour. Atlanta: CNN International.
--Tilmanb (talk) 03:49, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This says the show aired on March 7. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:11, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It can't be March 7 because I sent an email about the program on March 6 (the date obviously being verifiable in my email program), so at that time I already must have seen it. I am not sure whether I sent the email still on the same day or the next day, i.e. whether the program was on March 6 or March 5. Hmm, this is getting increasingly complicated... Why doesn't CNN show their past program schedules anywhere?? --Tilmanb (talk) 23:28, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It shouldn't be much of an issue anyway. You can just confirm it was the program you saw by checking it out on Youtube (in 14 parts). Clarityfiend (talk) 19:46, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Music Video "Pop Goes My Heart"[edit]

The video is from the movie "Music And Lyrics" and in it there is a fictional "has been" 80's band called "Pop". In the story line the band had a really big hit back in the 80's and there was a music video for it and for use in the movie they actually made a music video in the 80's style of music video's :)

A girl is the subject of the song and a pretty actress plays the girl in the music video... Who is she in real life? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.56.159.49 (talk) 02:44, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The typical place to look is the full cast listing at IMDB for the movie. But they don't list any part that sounds like "girl in video". She may be one of the actresses credited as "dancer". Staecker (talk) 16:18, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Trademark for a name in the Nurse with Wound list?[edit]

One of 294 names in the Nurse with Wound list is Franz de Byl. Recently someone logging in as Franzdebyl removed that name, and wrote in his edit summary: "Steven Stapleton [Nurse with Wound] was never allowed to use and abuse my name for his own interests". After I changed it back (the name most definitely is a part of the nww-list), he reverted and wrote this edit summary: "I send an Email to Wikipedia about this issue. So please leave it like it is now until Wikipedia answers to this copyright problem". Today he wrote under an IP-number: "my name is a TRADE MARK too. So I removed it again. Would be so nice if you nuggers could leave me alone now." (see the history of the page)

My question is: is the use of this name a case of copyright infringement? Can it be that Trademark law is applicable, even if Nurse with Wound never wanted to use it for his own gain? I believe not, but thought I'd ask here... Thanks for looking into it. Mark in wiki (talk) 08:40, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

After reading this I've decided to revert. Some things are more important than the truth. Mark in wiki (talk) 13:19, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

At the risk of giving legal advice, trademark law does not prevent someone from ever using a trademark; it only prevents them from using it in a trade situation. Even if a name is trademarked, Wikipedia is completely entitled to use that name in its articles. DJ Clayworth (talk) 13:24, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know whether it's appropriate for a concise encyclopedia article to list 294 names in such a list; but if it is, a person listed in that list doesn't get to cut his name out of the list just because he wants to. Whether his purported trademark is real or not is not relevant (see our articles on Pokemon, for example). Our WP:BLP policy bears on this but doesn't have a rule saying people can elect to not be referenced in a relevant Wikipedia article. Comet Tuttle (talk) 22:08, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I found the more specific page: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Help, which is a page intended for individuals, including annoyed ones, who come to Wikipedia to change articles that mention them. "Not every request can be met. Wikipedia is a reference work. If articles could be modified as their subjects wished, it would lose much of its value, because many people would want an article that was biased in favor of their own agendas." Comet Tuttle (talk) 22:16, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is a right of publicity issue, not a trademark or copyright issue, and the answer to the OP's question involves standing to sue. If one Fritz de Ble (or whatever) believes that his name has been used to suggest sponsorship of a product, his complaint is with the producers of that product. It is not a tort of any kind, at least in the USA, to report the fact that those producers have used the name. (To imagine an extreme example, it might be defamatory to imply that a person is associated with something that could badly affect his reputation in the community, but it's hard to see how that could possibly be true in the context of the above list; there's no implication that they are or associate with or endorse baby-killers or tax cheats or whatever.) 63.17.86.9 (talk) 10:44, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Films simular to Andrew Bujalski?[edit]

Can anyone recommend any films similar to the films of Andrew Bujalski, that are not considered to be part of the mumblecore movement?JennaJ82 (talk) 11:11, 16 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by JennaJ82 (talk • contribs) 11:07, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe something from our list of "select cinéma-vérité films". ---Sluzzelin talk 11:16, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Setting for swedish role-playing game?[edit]

What is considered the best campaign setting for the Swedish role-playing game Drakar och Demoner? For example, which one is most popular among the players, or got the best reviews in gaming journals? Links to both English and Scandinavian web sites are ok. Arbogast41637 (talk) 11:22, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have some old (1985–1990) issues of Sinkadus in the basement, but I think most of them discuss Ereb Altor exclusively. You can read about the individual issues here. Are there any of them you would like me to dig up? Gabbe (talk) 15:24, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, that's ok. But thank you for the link. Arbogast41637 (talk) 10:54, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Voice actors the Sims[edit]

Who were the voice actors in the first PC game in the Sims series?Lefannie (talk) 12:15, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This page gives the credits for the PC version of The Sims. DJ Clayworth (talk) 13:21, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Oatmeal[edit]

What kind of humor does The Oatmeal have? Do you have suggestions for similar ones on the net? --Reticuli88 (talk) 15:36, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know the name of the humor, but the style and topics seems to resemble that of http://www.cracked.com, especially the section titled "Cracked Topics" You may want to check that out. --Jayron32 15:56, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Satire Juliankaufman (talk) 22:07, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

March Madness[edit]

What are some of the key facts I should know about this year's March Madness? --Reticuli88 (talk) 15:48, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Try http://www.espn.com and http://www.cbssports.com for a few well-respected sites that will offer oodles of analysis to help you fill out your brackets. As far as I can tell, the majority of analysts seem to be leaning towards a Kentucky-Kansas matchup in the championship game. The consensus best sleeper seems to be Cornell, which everyone seems to think is WAY underranked as a 12-seed. --Jayron32 15:54, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why "March Madness"?[edit]

Amazing - a question asked and answered, with no sign whatsoever as to what it's actually about! DuncanHill (talk) 23:31, 17 March 2010 (UTC) [reply]

In the US, at both high school (Illinois, at least) and college levels, the annual basketball tournaments have long been known as "March Madness", obviously a play on the "March hare" and so on. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:39, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here's some info on the term as applied to basketball:[1] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:44, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For background for our non-American readers: March Madness is the colloquial term for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, a 65-team tournament used to determine the top basketball team in Division I, the highest level of college athletics in the U.S. The biggest tradition associated with the tournament is the "filling out of the brackets". On Selection Sunday, the tournament field is announced, and people enter pools (gambling pools or friendly pools) where they try to predict the outcome of every single game in the tournament. The full tournament tree is called the "brackets" and people generally fill out a blank bracket with the winners of all of the games down to the championship. Everyone playing in a pool pitches in some amount of cash (or not, if they do it just for fun) and the person who gets the most games right wins the pot. The OP was asking about how to find out how to fill out his bracket, presumably, so I directed him to major sports websites where helpful analysis is usually posted. --Jayron32 02:07, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Jayron is right and thanks for the advice. FYI - I am a girl. --Reticuli88 (talk) 13:06, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Boderlands siren phasewalk melee[edit]

i was wondering how many time can u melee in the sirens phasewalk cause once i got 2 melees in one phasewalk but i couldn't do it again later. my friend told me it was due to lag but i'm not sure if he's right. can u melee more than once in 1 phasewalk, if u can melee more than once in 1 phasewalk please tell me how. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Crack n cheese (talk • contribs) 17:52, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Meleeing in phasewalk always ends the phasewalk early. If you have done it more than once in a single walk, it's the result of lag (online) or a glitch. I'm unaware of a reliable glitch to produce multi-melee phasewalking. See this page (external link) for more information about maximising the effectiveness of your phasewalk. - DustFormsWords (talk) 01:49, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]