Talk:Bubble Boy (film)

message: also, there should be a spoiler warning because this kind of gives away the plot - Bagel7
:Please see WP:SPOILER --Objix (talk) 05:26, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  spoiler warning 

message: This article could easily be a start if it has some scheme of organization and a little more detail. --Supernumerary 03:00, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Stub Rating

message: Okay, I have seen some MAJOR problems on this artcle. Grammar, misspellings, run-on sentences, and nearly EVERY. SINGLE. EVENT. IS. INCLUDED! We don't need to know the whole movie! Just a summary on some of the important events! I will be cleaning this up by myself, if no one helps me. But please, try and help! Kyo cat(T)•(C) 01:03, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll try to help if I can. I can't do much, though, since I don't know much about the movie. // Sasuke-kun27 04:19, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All we need to do is cut down on some sentences. They get too repetitive, and they describe everything that happens. It's just too much information. And you haven't seen it?! I suggest you do. It's really funny. Kyo cat(T)•(C) 04:31, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I'm going to have to delete some sentences, since it is way too much information. We fixed most of the spelling and grammar errors. Kyo cat(T)•(C) 04:39, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up 

message: "..the Bright and Shiny cult, which seems to parody the Heaven's Gate cult, as it involves castration and being taken away by aliens.."
Seems to me more a parody of the Brianism cult. Almost uses their logo of a circle with a dot (so-called circumpunct). Also "Bright and Shiny"/"Brights" is a recurring Brianist/Skeptic theme. Annamonckton (talk) 15:06, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heaven's Gate 

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.
*Oppose per WP:PRECISION. The two real life boys have real life names, which are properly the titles of their articles; those articles would not be titled Bubble Boy.  There's already a hatnote on the film's article, so redirecting the film's actual title to a dab page would only inconvenience readers searching for or linking to the film under its real name, while helping almost no one. Station1 (talk) 08:11, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Fine, Station1. But like you, I call it as I see it. The complex of articles involving boys in bubbles is a mess, and so (partly as a consequence) is the smaller complex of RM proposals concerning those articles. They would be far better treated together. Some editors may only have known about one RM when they reviewed the lists at WP:RM (or commented at an RM), some only about the other. As for unfounded charges, I invite you to show, for the whole complex of articles in question, what you prefer for the titles of them all and how those preferences best suit the Project and its readers. Show how, in detail, my claims concerning mechanical and legalistic interpretation of provisions are unwarranted; and why (if you think it) overall benefit to the Project and to readers is not to be kept paramount, and referred to as editors see fit. Please let me know at my talkpage when and where you will do all that (I'm busy in real life). Meanwhile, I'll feel free to diagnose problems as I find them, without the intent to accuse anyone of bad faith. NoeticaTea? 21:29, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Assuming you're talking about the 5 or 6 articles currently listed at Boy in the bubble, I see no problem with the current titles.  Anyone typing "bubble boy" goes directly to the dab page. Anyone typing "Bubble Boy" with caps more likely wants the film so gets there directly, but for those who don't there's a hatnote to avoid confusion. Same for "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble". The phrase "Bubble Boy" is not even mentioned in one of the two articles about the real people, but in any case real people should be at their real names if there's any chance that anything else could be reasonably considered non-NPOV, not to mention ambiguous with another article. I'm not opposed to moving The Bubble Boy (Seinfeld) to The Bubble Boy, but the latter averages only 100 hits per month, some of which probably want the film, so I'm not too concerned about that one. The song has no article, and a different title anyway.  So none of the article titles are ambiguous, most readers get to the article they want directly (unless they type generic "bubble boy") and hatnotes direct the minority to the correct articles - that's what serves readers best imo. Station1 (talk) 23:36, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

text: I was the proposer of the Seinfeld episode move (and had nothing to do with this other proposed move). I don't know if it's technically possible for the move discussions to be merged, but I don't think it would be particularly helpful to do so, as this move is suggesting that the boy-in-a-bubble is the primary topic for "Bubble Boy", while the other move is suggesting that the boy-in-a-bubble is not the primary topic for "The Bubble Boy." I think some kind of merge at this point would be quite confusing, although certainly users may want to participate in both discussions. Theoldsparkle (talk) 14:48, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey