Talk:Pokey the Penguin

message: does anyone else find PtP to be vaguely reminiscent of a less edgy jerkcity? ✈ James C. 03:50, 2004 Aug 10 (UTC)
:Yes, vaguely. The non-sequitors arrive at about the same rate. I find Jerkcity to be more topic-oriented though (or narrowly-focused). Much prefer Pokey. --Yath 03:59, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  jerkcity 

message: The Pokey Principle needs to be linked at the end of the article, or at least mentioned.  It provides keen insight for beginners and Pokey veterans as well.
:go for it Yath 20:31, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone got a pdf of this?  I'm sure I had one once, but lost it.  Can't find it online anywhere either!  -Kfor (talk) 22:05, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: fwiw, the pokey principle appears to still be available on the internet archives.  i may try to create an archive of it, if no one beats me to it.  http://web.archive.org/web/20040222080038/yellow5.com/pp/01EditorsNote.html  Jon Lon Sito (talk) 02:57, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Found it in postscript format, yay.  I've made it available here.  -Kfor (talk) 22:28, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Pokey Principle 

message: This article looks rather biased to me. More of a positive review or blurb than an objective encyclopedic article. I'm not the right person to do it, but perhaps some of the more obvious praise should be altered? EldKatt 17:25, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Praise? Where? Please quote at least one sentence, since I can't find one in the article. :) I do, however, believe that removing the sentence "looks like the work of a 4 year old with poor motor control and a short attention span" was wrong, since it does describe the art very well. Still love the comic, though. Dehumanizer 17:57, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm afraid I must embarrass myself by being unable to point at a particular sentence. The whole article, though, seems (to me) to have an air of subtle subjectiveness. I guess it's mostly gut feeling. EldKatt 09:14, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias 

message: I've noticed the image with the Pokey comic panel can't be simply added to that article. Not without paying attention to something first. Aligning it to the right (the way images are positioned on most articles) might be a bad idea, since it'll look weird that way (in my opinion, at least).
It might look fine for people using the Nostalgia Wikipedia skin, but it looks pretty bad for people using the MonoBook skin, for example, or people using lower resolutions like 800x600, which are many. Just switch to that one and check the article to see how it looks like. For that reason, I'll let the image locked in the center. That way, it'll look fine on every skin. Sounds reasonable to me. – Kaonashi 02:07, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Mackeriv, I apologize. I hadn't realized that the horizontal alignment of the image was particularly significant, such that you would consider my edit a reversion. Even so, placing this image centered above the article text isn't a good way to start an article (notice that almost no other article does this). I see that the main issue is to prevent a few words sitting beside the image on small displays, so here's an alternate solution: place it after a paragraph and prevent text from flowing around it. --Yath 04:11, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image position 

message: Anybody know which strips feature Pokey's mother and brothers? I'm not too sure about that edit mentioning "Pesky and Sudsy". --Yath 04:34, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Pokey Returns Home Kuralyov 02:42, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mother and brothers 

message: I propose that we remove italicization and all caps from quotes, on the simple grounds that we don't imitate typographic design when quoting anything else. If the motivation for the all caps italics were applied to its full extent, we would use a comic sans font in all caps when quoting Dilbert (and feel free to think up other examples yourselves). I'm not being bold and editing right now, since a decision was made on this talk page to format things the way they are now. If nobody disagrees, though, I will be bold. EldKatt (Talk) 17:10, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I typed the first quotes here (not the later additions), and initially they were written "normally". But, for some reason, I found that they "read" much less funny that way. It wasn't me who changed them to all caps, but I fully supported that change. I'd rather they remained as all caps. But it's not my call... Dehumanizer 18:01, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

text: I'd prefer the inline quotes remain capitalised/italicised. Whereas the font (ref. Dilbert comment above) is (I argue) arbitrary and doesn't affect the way a strip is read, the deliberate ALL CAPS is a relevant stylistic device and definitely changes the impact of the narrative. Denotation/connotation, that sort of thing. It's the difference between reading the lyrics to a song versus listening to it. matt 18:17, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. They have a certain quality that would be lost by removing the formatting. --Yath 23:37, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mixed caps in quotes again 

message: I think it may be worth noting the difference between crossed-out words (incomplete words scribbled out) and strike-out font used for emphasis. Yes? No? Maybeso? To all the naysayers, if a massive article about a single (mediocre) Gwen Stefani song can be a featured article on Wikipedia, Pokey certainly belongs here as well. - Emt147 Burninate! 05:28, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the words with a strike-out are thoughts that are meant. The scribbles lead me to believe that if the author had a typo, they would just keep it and when editting, would just scribble it out. 70.111.251.203 22:48, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Crossed-out words

message: Some ot the dialogue reminds me of Engrish.  Is this intentional, do you think?  66.99.9.109 06:27, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Engrish?

message: i hadn't been back to pokey in a while, and i checked back yesterday, and it was gone!  yellow5.com no longer exists!  does anyone have any info?  also, is there another place where pokey is archived?  i cant stand the thought of pokey being gone forever! ~--Resister 22:22, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Uh, it's still there. - Emt147 Burninate! 23:06, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Gone again as of Nov 05, 2007.  The yellow5.com domain seems to have lapsed and now goes to a Verizon placeholder page.  D'oh.   Anybody know if Pokey has shown up anywhere else?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.111.218.139 (talk) 15:18, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's back, as of November 11. 144.82.196.170 11:15, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And gone again, almost exactly two years after the outage noted above. (November 6, 2009) The Authors seem to have trouble remembering to re-register their domain. 96.233.229.137 (talk) 16:41, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  where's pokey? 

message: This seems to be one of the oldest articles on Wikipedia!  How strange.  Fishal (talk) 07:34, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: This article's history

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