Talk:Ninjas in popular culture

message: I removed the following from the Ninja article. Someone can put it in here if it's useful. Heroeswithmetaphors (talk) 09:40, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: From mainarticle

message: I'll probablyget the rest later. --HanzoHattori 08:43, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleaned up until the Television 

message: Also someone merge the article, damit. --HanzoHattori 19:19, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate article on the videogames? 

message: Either is fine to me, though my præference goes to respecting its status as a direct loan from a language which has no plural form, or more correctly no singular form and/or treating all nouns as mass nouns, but using 'ninja' and 'ninjas' throughout each-other looks some-what unprofessional for some-thing aspiring to be of encyclopædic value.Rajakhr (talk) 14:20, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I 'was bold' and replaced all instances of 'ninjas' with 'ninja'.  Obviously, this creates issues where proper titles are involved.  Someone can take that up. Paul Haymon (talk) 20:49, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Excuse me, Mr. Failman, but the titles are often "ninjas" and so just you fucked up the interlinks. (repaired nao.) --Captain Obvious and his crime-fighting dog (talk) 08:26, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I realized that, which is why I said "Obviously, this creates issues where proper titles are involved.  Someone can take that up."  I think my edit did more good than harm. Paul Haymon (talk) 21:28, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plural of 'ninja' is used inconsistently 

message: An article on ninjas that doesn't include their most precious law?! Unheard of!
Well, when I'm quite through being ridiculous, may I ask why the Inverse Ninja Law redirects to this page, but yet no mention of it is made? I'm presuming that it used to be a part of the article, but no longer. Either the redirects should be deleted or the Law put into the article. I vote for putting it in the article, because it *is* a well-known Law of Ninjas, at least online and in many anime fandoms. --Alinnisawest,Dalek Empress (extermination requests here) 15:08, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inverse Ninja Law 

message: I tried to move all the vg stuff (like 1/3 of this article?) there, and then someone came along and deleted it just like that roughly 1 minute later. --Mjr Edit (talk) 14:07, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Ninja video games]] article 

message: I'm sure the guys who try to assassinate the leader of the Samurai are Ninjas m w (talk) 15:51, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The Last Samurai

message: Several paramilitary, police and militia groups around the world use the names or nicknames of "Ninja" or "Ninjas":
*The Santomean special police forces (of São Tomé and Príncipe) are a paramilitary police force officially referred to as the Emergency Police, but popularly known as “Ninjas”.
*Rebels in the Pool Region of the Republic of the Congo also called themselves "Ninja".
*Red Berets, a Serb paramilitary group of Dragan Vasiljković based in Knin, Croatia, called themselves "Kninjas".
*Some death-squad-type armed groups active under Indonesian rule in East Timor called themselves "Ninja". The name seems to have been borrowed from the movies rather than being directly influenced by the Japanese model. The "ninja" gangs were also active elsewhere in Indonesia.
*During the Algerian Civil War, the government's feared commando units were known as "Ninjas" due to the black hoods they wore. --194.145.185.229 (talk) 12:20, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: But the fact that they were nicknamed "ninjas" is entirely due to their pop-cultural presence. If you feel there is a better place to put this information, then do so. But don't arbitrarily strip articles of sourced, factual, useful information. Serendipodous 10:35, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  This stuff was history, not pop culture 

message: For the actual ninja article it's fine to use "ninja" as the plural, assuming that it's grammatically correct.  But for the article on their place in pop culture, we're dealing with an altogether different phenomenon, the "ninja" in the popular, and largely Western imagination.  Ask a thousand people in London or New York what the plural is and they will all answer "ninjas", unless they're on their way out of a Japanimation wall scroll/sex  doll shop, or their parents' basement.  A note explaining that the proper plural in Japanese is "ninja", but for functional use in this article, it will be ninjas.  I realize that the sort of users likely to be on this article are the type who will be long on their perceived mastery of Japanese culture and short on real world social skills, but I assure you that the plural of the Japanese loanword in the English language is "ninjas".  Always has been, always will be.  http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ninja  http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ninja PenitentWhaler (talk) 20:34, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The plural of ninja is ninjas.  Deal with it.   

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message: "Ninja" (like "samurai") is both singular and plural, and anyway it's about the concept. --SNAAAAKE!! (talk) 17:00, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
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