Talk:The Chaser's War on Everything/Archive 1

message: how come this page doesn't come up when I type in "The chaser's war on everything" into search (i found this page through google)? --LeakeyJee 10:39, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It does now (See: The chaser's war on everything)--Greasysteve13 04:26, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: How come

message: Apprently hes in Africa somewhere now, as seen last week when he was seeing if stuff was "world famous" in Tanzinia or some place. Update? --Rilstix 06:44, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: He had a live cameo one week, followed by a pre-recorded cameo (The Adventurous Diner) the next week - these could easily have been recorded in the same week.  He could have then had a couple of weeks off and then done the segment in Africa "on the way back" (although it's a very vague definition of "on the way", it is possible).  I don't think we should write him off as "back in Australia" when it could just be a break.  -- Chuq 23:17, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Firth: No longer in the USA

message: i heard the chaser won a logie. is this true? if so, perhaps someone should add it. Flage 04:23, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: logie?

message: How is the fact that Sunrise doesn't have a studio audience relevant?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.234.251.211 (talk • contribs) 21:48, 30 June 2006
:Probably because the large amount of profanity Chris used would be unaccceptable to a studio audience. -- Chuq 02:51, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Sunrise stuff should be removed. People are so gullible. The video was on the ABC website weeks before it got passed around as being supposedly on Sunrise. Wikipedia should not be a forum to debunk internet rumours. Dankru 12:17, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As long as the rumour debunking is not researched on Wikipedia, I don't see a problem with a few lines summing up the situation, so long as it is factual. -- Chuq 12:26, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: On the commentary, I'm pretty sure they said on the commentary that because that bit was leaked on the net and people thought it was real, they had an extra 80,000 viewers that week. Should we check that and add it? GoodOrEvil 11:27, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sunrise

message: Surely this is a recurring segment?  It's featured in three of the past six episodes.  In any case I think three appearances of a segment should grant it status of recurring, as that may lead to future appearances. -- Mixmaster Flibble 10:42, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is possible to make a valid point and be abusive, as you have demonstrated here (and as I have just noted on your talk page.)  It also pretty easy to make a point without being abusive, I recommend you do that from now on.   -- Chuq 01:59, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are You Being Shagged? 

message: I think we should put something about Chris Taylor's stunt of wearing the stocking on his head and visiting stores because it's become quite the internet meme in its own right and is one of the only chaser stunts where they actually had to put a warning at the end not to re-enact. Deshem 13:52, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stockinghead 

message: I reckon this kind of programme would draw some controversy and criticisms. How about including them in the article? Cheungpat 22:08, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Pretty much all of the "well known stunts" are criticism from the mainstream media. -- Chuq 08:07, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticisms 

message: I don't really think this is a "well known" stunt - all of the others were reported in the media, bar the sunrise incident which was well distributed as an internet meme. -- Chuq 08:07, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Jihad Jack

message: Would the CIO qualify as a recurring segment?  It was certainly a reoccurring element, but doesn't have an announcement screen or jingle, or other elements the listed segments have.  Is it worth adding? -- Mixmaster Flibble 08:53, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, my vote would be that it is recurring. -- Chuq 00:42, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citizen's Infringement Officer: A recurring segment? 

message: Can someone make a userbox of the show. I want to it put it on my page. Xiaodai 02:21, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Theres one on my userpage IAmTheCoinMan 22:13, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can someone make a userbox for fans of the show 

message: As hilarious as the Chaser boys are (I'm an Aussie, watched the show religiously when it was on and bought the new DVD), I would barely call them internet phenomena.  I put a call for citation just yesterday and someone "cited" it by linking to Chaser videos on YouTube.  Sure, YouTube is a popular website, but does that mean everything on it is phenomena?  I've got a few videos on YouTube but they're barely well known.
I call for a criteria for "internet meme"-age to be set.  I mean, they're not nearly as popular as memes like Badgerx3, Snakes on a Plane, Numa Numa, etc.   I don't see any Chaser references on Newgrounds.  When they start showing up on Newgrounds, people's forum signatures, and they're laughed at by any geek or teenager I talk to, then I'd call it a phenomenon.  But for now, I'd leave it case-closed and I've deleted the citing.Taylor 09:17, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Internet meme? 

message: i have written about the osama stuff at Videos of Osama bin Laden, Greengiraffe 04:09, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: hahha

message: Scenes, skits or segments should only be referred to as a recurring segment only when it has had more than one appearance, therefore i'll take 'Clive, the slightly too-loud commuter' down until its second appearance...—The preceding unsigned comment was added by JDoogins (talk • contribs) 13:12, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree sorta, as previously stated, a segment needs to have appeared 3 times for it to put in there, so they all shall be taken down. It also must not be an ad/trailer as defined by the DVD. This is why Are you being shagged? isn't there. IAmTheCoinMan 10:12, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Recurring Segment' 

message: Any objections to writing an episode guide, futhermore anyone want to help me? IAmTheCoinMan 22:12, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Any suggestions on how we should name the articles. The general form is; EPISODE NAME (SHOW NAME episodes) So, 1.1 (TCWOE episode) or 1.1 (The Chaser's War On Everything episode). That seems long to me but thats how Desperate Houswives did it Coming Home (Desperate Housewives episode). So we shall use they hey? IAmTheCoinMan 10:07, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

text: (After edit conflict) Personally, I would object to it. There's no point to it in this kind of show. What would it be, a list of 10 or so skits? We don't really need 20 or so pages of a list of 10 items. The recurring segments are listed, and the major notable events are listed - I think that is plenty, anything else would be unmaintainable and unverifiable (of the notable events, there were only 5-6 last season.) -- Chuq (talk) 10:11, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Objections?

message: I thought the 'joke' they made last week about Bindy Irwin cutting up her dead dad and snorting him like cocaine was pretty sick. They've said stuff like that on more than one occasion, and it just ruins the show. I'm sure they can find other ways to be 'outrageous' than insulting the dead. I start to question their motive when they do things like that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.167.79.98 (talk) 18:03, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This talk page is for discussion about the article.  Having said that, their motive was probably to get people such as yourself to give them free publicity.  Good work! -- Chuq (talk) 01:42, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Publicity?... Who said anything about that? I mentioned it here because there was nothing in the atricle about it, and it was a topic that came up on several radio stations the day after. Don't worry, I'm sure there are plenty of other people out there who'd like to continue to hear jokes about dead people. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.167.159.138 (talk) 09:52, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As you just said, they were on several radio stations the day after, that is publicity.  Remember the show is called The Chaser's War on Everything. -- Chuq (talk) 10:10, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tasteless jokes 

message: As such, please don't add new examples unless they get lots of media.  If you agree, please also indicate to demonstrate consensus.  ~AFA ʢűčķ¿Ю 14:48, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  There doesn't need to be examples of every single thing they do... 

message: It is located here: List of The Chaser's War On Everything episodes. If you want to help out wikis coverage of the war you should add stuff. —Preceding unsigned comment added by  (talk • contribs) 
:Or not.  I've just nominated it for deletion.  I understand your intention, but it isn't what Wikipedia is for (Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information).  What I do recommend is setting up an off-site wiki dedicated to the Chaser (such as at http://www.wikia.com ) - you can then go into as much detail as you like, into all the Chaser shows/publications. -- Chuq (talk) 13:06, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Surely if you can justify episode guides for the thousands of other shows on wikipedia you can justify it for the chaser? Probably even more so as people will be interested as what specific segments came from what episode?? Jpk82 22:40, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please see the AfD page for a reply & continue discussion there. -- Chuq (talk) 22:48, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Episode Guide

message: Jimbo has had the honour of being swept up in the War on Everything.  I'm not sure if this is significant enough to be a well known stunt.  It did get reported in the non-ABC press, but wasn't front page news, so was of some note.  Perhaps wait until it makes it to the screen then add it to the relevant episode guide?  Here's the reference ready to go:  John Dalton 09:26, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Firstly: Spoiler Warning for next weeks episode, secondly it should be there ( as a well known stunt); and thirdly mr ten questions get its debut for season two! Jasewase 10:34, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: War on Everything targets Jimbo

message: While it is looking better and better as time goes on, theres still quite a few things that erk me bout this article. For starters the intro seems overly long winded, I think that alot of that can be moved to a new subsection called 'Show Concept' or something like that.
Also the recurring segments on the show colour thing is confusing and not easy to read at all. I think there should be: Recurring Segments on The Chasers War on Everything or something to that affect which would then have more space to elaborate better with a table or something. Comments? Jpk82 04:28, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed about the intro, it does need a bit of work.  I don't think we need yet another article though - we have only just recently had List of The Chaser's War on Everything episodes created.  If it can't fit in there, it really should be pruned a bit.  There is another option - see my Chaser Wikia proposal below. -- Chuq (talk) 05:40, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK Made some changes, I might have got a bit carried away, as I started ot move things other things needed moving too. Shortened the intro, created the 'Show Concept' section, moved some of the intro to a new trivia section and created a season 2 heading, moved some stuff there and added some stuff with cite. Bit rough around the edges, but I think its a bit better. Jpk82 06:38, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content Reshuffle 

message: Chaser fans may wish to take a look at my proposal here - http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:The_Chaser .  If you have had stuff removed from any of their articles here, this new proposed Wikia will be a suitable site for any Chaser related content! -- Chuq (talk) 05:32, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I personally don't like wikia and, don't see the need --talk to symode09's or Spread the love! 14:48, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: External wiki then, I'm not fussed.  Regarding the need,  a lot of the content of List of The Chaser's War On Everything episodes is beyond scope for Wikipedia.  I just haven't deleted it yet because I thought it would be more polite to instigate the creation of an external host for it first. -- Chuq (talk) 10:59, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I totally agree with the idea. There is alot more information that can be provided on a Chaser Wiki. I propose it to be called Chaserpedia. We could also embed YouTube videos into it. I'm going by the idea and success of www.lostpedia.com. --Lakeyboy 11:56, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chaser Wikia proposal 

message: Just to let chaser fans know, they can now show the whole of Wikipedia their passion for The Chaser's War on Everything by placing this userbox on their userpage.
Use the following template link to get it to show up. 
Improvement suggestions are welcome. Enjoy. --Lakeyboy 11:56, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As mentioned earlier on the page there is this one as well: Click here --IAmTheCoinMan
Unfortuantly, your one is not allowed to be used on Wikipedia due to a fair use image (the war title screen) being in use. My one is allowed due to the fact it has a SXC licence allowing the full use of the image. They also have the very same dartboard as a prop in the background on the wall in the studio. --Lakeyboy 05:45, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New Userbox

message: The section on Virgin blue included a non-cited, and apparently untrue, sentence:
The prank was acknowledged by Virgin Blue who later in the day put out a press release saying that if the Chaser wants to spend $300 on jokes like that then that's fine.
You can review the list of press releases for all of August 2006 here:  http://www.virginblue.com.au/about_us/news/index.php?co=vb&artdate=082006 . Clearly there is no press release related to The Chaser.
I modified this to reflect the actual content of the article in The Age.  Jpp42 09:39, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Virgin Blue