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Endtroducing…

Excessive indeed, but will the other tracks will remain hidden?~2026-24359-87 (talk) 01:11, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

I think we should really expand This section. It's too incomplete, it makes Radiohead look like it only influenced This 4 artists, and they were and are much more than that. Can you help me out with the cites or Even cutting down whatever You like Starsfuaa (talk) 13:21, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics/Comic strips work group § Peanuts Good Topic/Featured Topic

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Notifications on List of Battle for Dream Island episodes and Emily Neves sandbox pages

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Sonic 1991 edit

Just wanted to get ahead of it - I recently made an edit there reverting an unexplained edit. I was referring to the IP that made edits directly before you, not you. But I think your subsequent edits may have made it looks like I reverted you too. And maybe I did? I'm not sure, it got a bit confusing. My main objection was that they removed the note about Sonic Team honestly. Sergecross73 msg me 21:24, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

No worries, I didn't see any of the previous or subsequent edits and just started picking away at the article at random. I'll take a look later. Popcornfud (talk) 21:40, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:The Super Mario Bros. Movie § Removal of Japan as production country

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Amusing

Hey there! Just thought you might find this edit amusing, since you've worked on the Elegant Variation essay. Before my edit, the segment read:

"SpongeBob SquarePants is the titular protagonist of the Nickelodeon animated series of the same name."

So Nickelodeon had an animated series called Titular Protagonist?

😂 OrdinaryOtter (talk) 08:21, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

That's a corker! Popcornfud (talk) 07:34, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Daft Punk

Hi,

I’m sorry to come off like this, but I simply don’t understand how that sub-subheader added more complexity than simplicity, which was the reason why you got rid of it. I personally thought it made the reading more easier, but you thought otherwise and I don’t get it unfortunately. Please explain why this is. Thank you.

Jibblesnark86 (talk) 21:41, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

As a rule, we want to avoid nesting too many subsections in articles, as it gets messy. See MOS:OVERSECTION.
The History section presently has 9 subsecitons. We do not need to create a one-off sub-subsection within one of those subsections just to continue the narrative the parent subsection already begins.
If you feel that final subsection is too long (and it might be), then we should look at finding a natural point to split it into two subsections of equal weight. Popcornfud (talk) 10:22, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
Oh, ok. That makes sense. I’m sorry again to ask a question like that in that kind of way. I was just utterly confused. But now I get it, fully. Thank you for the insight. Jibblesnark86 (talk) 16:17, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
No need to apologize, I'm glad my explanation made sense. Popcornfud (talk) 03:08, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

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Hello

Thank you for your help in the Resident Evil category. Of course, not for helping me directly, but for your participation in the pages in general. I get very tired of one-sided and heated debates over every little detail, so I'm glad to see contributions from other experienced users. Regarding the article, I have already suggested deleting this part of the text altogether in order to avoid further disputes over sources and further turning this into a personal issue, but of course, this would only be another round of the edit war if I took it upon myself to do so directly. Solaire the knight (talk) 05:45, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

Resident Evil 5

Hi Popcornfud. Regarding your edit summary here , just to clarify I only changed to the non-commitial language to try and stop the controversy. I preferred the original wording . But I'm also completely fine with just removing any reference to its position of release/being a major game as well. Cheers. Damien Linnane (talk) 06:12, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

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The Young Snakes

Hello, I wanted to let you know that I redirected this page to Aimee Mann as an WP:ATD. I agree that it is not worthy of a standalone article because all the coverage is in the context of Mann, but a fan searching the name up in the context of her career seems pretty likely. Thank you for all you do here. JeffSpaceman (talk) 10:50, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Cool. Yeah, I was planning to make it a redirect too, if it were deleted. (Is there a different nomination process you're supposed to use when you want to redirect an article rather than simply delete it?) Popcornfud (talk) 11:36, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
I don't know of anything akin to what you describe beyond the typical AFD route. I just figured we could save a step and redirect it, rather than wait for it to get deleted and redirect it then. Cut out the middleman, I say. JeffSpaceman (talk) 11:40, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Edit Revert

Hi there. I noticed you did a revert on one of my edits you did on the Boygenius article. Can you explain what you mean by "trivial stylization"? The band is known to have their name all lowercase, isn't it? TyronesEditsPages (talk) 01:46, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

Bands and musicians use stylizations for their names (and album/song titles) all the time. Who really cares how something is styled on a poster or a website or an album cover? It isn't worth noting unless it's commented on by reliable secondary sources. Popcornfud (talk) 02:52, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
Well, how come band groups like Twice or songs like drivers license (song) has their stylizations on their article but I can't put my edit on the article? Also, there are reliable sources that has Boygenius in all lowercase like this NYT article here https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/arts/music/amplifier-newsletter-boygenius.html or this NPR article https://www.npr.org/2025/12/19/g-s1-102671/tiny-desk-radio-boygenius-helado-negro-coldplay. I am not trying to argue but it's something that I should be concerned if you revert my edit over something like this. And please, my apologies if I sound rude. TyronesEditsPages (talk) 03:03, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
Just because something is wrong in one place doesn't mean it should be wrong everywhere else, too. Wikipedia will never be perfect.
NYT and NPR have their own style guides and are free to write things how they choose. Neither of the articles you link contain any commentary about the stylization. Popcornfud (talk) 03:42, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
What do you mean commentary? You want sources that comment on the stylization of their band name? TyronesEditsPages (talk) 03:48, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
Yes. If a reliable source said something like "The band insist on writing their name in lowercase, because XYZ reason" then that might be worth mentioning in the article. As it is, it's trivial. Popcornfud (talk) 03:50, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
So in a nutshell, if I provide a reliable source that has commentary on Boygenius band name, you won't revert my edit then? TyronesEditsPages (talk) 03:51, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
It would depend on the source and what exactly it says (ie we would require non-trivial commentary). And I still wouldn't necessarily support mentioning it in the lead sentence, but rather mentioning it to the article body. Popcornfud (talk) 03:55, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
Hmm that's fair I guess. TyronesEditsPages (talk) 03:57, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
Also, one last thing. Most songs have their articles stylized like Drop Dead by Olivia Rodrigo for example. Will do an edit to say it's "trivial" too since there is no commentary on it? If I can't do it on Boygenius, then it's a double edge sword in your case. TyronesEditsPages (talk) 08:30, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
Yes, in my view it is never worth noting stylization unless it has been discussed by reliable sources. Popcornfud (talk) 08:33, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

My rant was still justified

And Ebert still needed to be criticized, thank you! ~2026-26548-13 (talk) 16:46, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

Gabe Newell son

Hey, so Gray Newell is stated in source 43 on the Gabe Newell page as being Gabe's son. Just wanted to let you know. HomelessPB&J (talk) 03:43, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Hi there. Yes, that's right, but that source doesn't say he's a racing driver, so we can't use it as a source for that information. Additionally, per WP:BLPNAME, we shouldn't really be mentioning the names of children unless they're notable/important themselves.
I've no doubt that Gray Newell truly is a racer, but before we can add that info we need to find reliable sourcing. Popcornfud (talk) 03:50, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
I mean he is a professor race car driver though. The page Gray Newell has over 80 sources proving this fact. I can just add a source to the Gabe Newell page for further verification. HomelessPB&J (talk) 03:57, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
@HomelessPB&J I've moved this conversation to the Gabe Newell talk page. Please reply to there from now on, thanks. Popcornfud (talk) 04:16, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

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Plaque

I was interested in your edit to Malcolm Sargent. May I invite you to explain why a plaque clearly shown as placed on behalf of Her Majesty's Government is not a reliable source? I have added a link to the government site, but it seems to me unnecessary. Tim riley talk 16:12, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

As I said in my edit summary: to me, this looks like original research, ie it's all your own work. We need to cite it to a published source instead.
However, I might not have been right there, per this from the WP:ORMEDIA policy: Any form of information, such as maps, charts, graphs, and tables may be used to provide source information. Any straightforward reading of such media is not original research provided that there is consensus among editors that the techniques used are correctly applied and a meaningful reflection of the sources.
In any case, your current solution seems ideal to me: we have the claim, a traditional citation so the reader can confirm it's correct, and a photo so the reader can see what the plaque looks like. Even if the photo alone suffices, an independent source is always stronger. Popcornfud (talk) 16:38, 18 June 2026 (UTC)