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April 19

Anime/Manga

Why is it that all anime pages have to be on the same page as the manga they're based on and yet movies and tv series based off of a comic book or a novel get separate pages? --76.237.206.200 (talk) 02:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

If this is a question about Wikipedia, then you should probably ask it at the talk page for WikiProject : Anime and Manga APL (talk) 16:23, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

UK TV prog about teachers causing/being blamed for problems in later life

This is a bit of a long shot, but I'm trying to find out anything I can (a link to a description or review would be great) about a documentary that was shown on British TV, I think Channel 4, between about 2 and 7 years ago (sorry I can't be more precise), in which adults who had 'issues' (such as persistent lack of self-esteem, or self-consciousness about something) attributed their problems to put-downs, disparaging remarks or other behaviour by teachers during their childhood. Something these teachers had said or done still stung years after the event, and in an attempt to find some resolution the people the programme followed attempted to track their teachers down to ask why they had said such things and to let them know about the effect it had had. The one bit I remember showed a retired teacher who'd been located by one of his pupils from many years ago and had received a letter from them about something he'd once said to the pupil and the effect they thought it had had. The teacher had no recollection of saying whatever it was he'd said and seemed slightly bewildered that his throwaway comment was causing distress years after he'd made it. Did anyone else see this? I'm finding it near impossible to Google for, so I thought I'd ask here. Thanks in advance! — Trilobite 05:23, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Animated movie from the 90s

I've looked at 199X in film articles and I can't for the life of me find it.

All I remember is:

it was violent; the protagonist was a woman; it was set in outer space; the villain had some kind of concoction that made him invincible for a short while; he used it to become the leader of some dinosaur humanoids; something about a cave/well of eternal life; there were rivers of lava on the dinosaur humanoid planet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.36.166.73 (talk) 09:51, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Could it possibly have been Heavy Metal (film), from 1981? It was divided into segments; it featured dinosaur-ish humanoids, female protagonists, outer space, an invincible auto-healing character, and there was probably lava. Man, that movie has everything. Comet Tuttle (talk) 20:13, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Sounds more like Heavy Metal 2000. It's not, stricly speaking, from the 90s, but the story line is a perfect fit.

Analogue satellite television

Why is Germany the last European country with analogue satellite television? --84.61.146.104 (talk) 14:23, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Maybe digital just isn't cost effective enough for the telecoms companies there. Chevymontecarlo. 14:27, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

It isn't. Dismas|^(talk) 14:39, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

German analogue satellite television will be closed down in about 2 years. --84.61.146.104 (talk) 14:40, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

The problem is that, unlike with digital TV, amplifying the signal on an analog signal also amplifies the noise. Thus, rebroadcasting analog signals, repeatedly, results in degradation of the signal-to-noise ratio. StuRat (talk) 14:54, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

I think because a lot of Germans own analog receivers, and the broadcasters don't want to lose so many viewers. In my native the Netherlands on the other hand, dishes are rare and almost everybody has cable, so switching to digital satellite would lose few viewers, since the cable companies convert digital satellite to (simultanuous) analog+digital cable. 195.35.160.133 (talk) 12:32, 20 April 2010 (UTC) Martin.

Beach Boys Photo

To whom it may concern I am a grade 5 student in Victoria BC Canada. I am writing to ask permission to use Some of the pictures from your website I am doing a school project on the Beach Boys I will not be selling your pictures just sharing them with my class. Please write back soon to Sincerely Charlotte. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.31.68.133 (talk) 17:19, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

email removed, we might pit answers here for you but we will not be emailing you directly. As for the use of pictures, please see the next response, take it away regulars

Hello. What you are supposed to do is to look at the "Licensing" section after you click on the photo, so you can see whether you're allowed to use the photo. For example, if you click File:The Beach Boys concierto.jpg, you'll see that in the Licensing section, you are free to use it, if you "attribute the work", meaning that in your project you should mention somewhere that the photo was taken by "Wonker Wonker" (as shown in the Summary section). On the other hand, the photo File:The Beach Boys 1965.jpg shows that it's copyrighted by Capitol Records and it's being used here on Wikipedia under a "fair use" argument. Wikipedia doesn't own any of the rights to the photo; Capitol Records does. Technically we do not give legal advice here, even to a fifth-grader doing a school project, unfortunately; so all I can suggest is that you ask your teacher whether it is OK to use the "fair use" photos; or check out our section Fair dealing#Canada and decide for yourself whether your use of a "fair use" photo is going to be OK. Comet Tuttle (talk) 20:08, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

If all he's doing is displaying them within the confines of a school, and not publishing them somewhere, he ought to be on reasonably safe ground. He could just as easily scan photos and use them in the project. The caveat could be the extent of this project. For example, if he's going to have that project on the internet, as opposed to simply posters in the school hallways or overhead slides in a classroom, he probably ought to confine himself to "free" photos. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 07:31, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Phoebe Holcroft Watson yet again?

I've been looking for an obituary or a death date I can reference for some time now. Is there a site on the web where you can ask real stumper questions and get lots of people researching the answer? Williamb (talk) 19:06, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes for genealogy questions like this, may I suggest one of the Rootsweb boards? [1] I've just had a quick look at Ancestry.com and I'd need to know a lot more about her in order to come up with a meaningful result - have you had a look at it? --TammyMoet (talk) 19:26, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

There's an LDS record for a Phoebe Catherine Holcroft born 7 Oct 1898 Saint Leonards, Sussex (same date as in our article), died 20 Oct 1980. Her parents were Edgar and Olive Elizabeth Holcroft. Same person? If so, how did the -Watson get tacked on to her name? The woman in the record was married to William Eriksen Blakstad on 28 Jul 1933 in Birmingham. Zoonoses (talk) 15:00, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

That helped a bit, unfortunately it was submitted to LDS by a private party and there's no real way to document it that I can see. I could put the death date on wikipedia but I can't really reference it the way it is I guess. I think Watson was from her first marriage, Blakstad was her second husband from what little I've read. Williamb (talk) 22:04, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Don't give up. An impeccable source (Times of London) published an obituary on 29 Oct 1980. I refused to pay them 5 pounds, but what I can read says "Mrs Phoebe Blakstad who died at Eastbourne was one of Britain's best lawn tennis players between the wars." Zoonoses (talk) 02:01, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Snes game "secret of mana"factory sealed?

Hi,i have a rare copy of a snes game called "the secret of mana" released in 1993. The game i believe is factory sealed although it does not have the famous red nintendo seal. The game is cellophane wrapped with a seam running vertically around the box + a seal running horizontally on the rear of the box. It is not a shrink wrapped version + i believe it to be an origional game which is in almost perfect condition. Is there any nintendo fan who could shed some light on the oragin of this game + confirm whether it is an origional factory sealed game. Please help me !!Richard 95.148.240.10 (talk) 20:56, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

A photo would be useful; you could try contacting Nintendo and see what they think. 75.55.213.107 (talk) 17:42, 21 April 2010 (UTC)