Talk:All persons fictitious disclaimer

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:South Park disclaimer.jpg

message: I think this article warrants a mention of Costa Gravas' landmark political film Z, as it is famous for featuring a notable inversion of this disclaimer (translated from the French): "Any resemblance to real events, to persons living or dead, is not accidental. It is DELIBERATE"Isaac Benaron (talk) 23:01, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Z

message: Maybe it would be interesting to add, for contrast, the opening of "The Gulag Archipelago":
"In this book there are no fictitious persons, nor fictitious events. 
People and places are named with their own names. If they are 
identified by initials instead of names, it is for personal considera- 
tions. If they are not named at all, it is only because human 
memory has failed to preserve their names. But it all took place 
just as it is here described."
--JorgeGT (talk) 23:43, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Conter examples

message: In the toomuchtrivia-like list of examples of parodies of the disclaimer, the South Park disclaimer is cited, which says that all voice actors "are impersonated ... poorly."  I removed it.  That particular sentence is not part of the all-persons-fictitious disclaimer; it is present in order to reduce the chance that they'll be sued, not for libel, but for violation of publicity rights.  See Tom Waits#Lawsuits for more examples.  Comet Tuttle (talk) 19:48, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  South Park "impersonated ... poorly" line removed 

message: I was actually looking for the opposite - although based on fact, details have been changed to protect people's identities. Is there a common form of that disclaimer? Natebailey (talk) 09:45, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opposite - All persons changed disclaimer? 

message: The article ia almost entirely about the disclaimer in movies, yet it is equally common in novels, which therefore deserve equal space.  The standard boilerplate is similar to the version described in the article's lead.  One of Arthur C. Clarke's novels includes a disclaimer that all the characters are fictitious "except the giant grouper in Chapter Six" (or some such wording).  A British mystery novel that I read years ago includes a disclaimer to the effect that all the characters "are placenamed".  --76.69.45.64 (talk) 17:46, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not just movies