Talk:Homestar Runner

message: Wasn't The Ugly One who died by getting arrow'd? --68.248.158.216 23:59, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, it was. 65.19.65.72 03:52, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hem Hem... 

message: I have removed :Image:Everybody-poster.PNG from the article, which used to have the caption "The multiplicity of characters from the cartoon."  This is an example of unfair use; you can't use an image of a commercial product to illustrate what's on the product.  For example, if John Galt was on the cover of Time magazine, we couldn't use a scan of the cover in his infobox; however, if we wrote about the magazine article in our encyclopedia article, then we could include a low-resolution copy alongside the commentary in most cases.  Since this article doesn't talk about the Homestar poster at all, it's inappropriate to have a picture of it in the article.  I hope this helps.  Cheers, ➪HiDrNick! 04:30, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Image:Everybody-poster.PNG]] 

message: The "episode" section is completely worthless. Deleted? Oystermind 22:30, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Deleted. — Malcolm (talk) 21:21, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

text: I LOL'd. 24.123.0.130 (talk) 17:19, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sbemail Section 

message: Merging means cutting, not nuking. --Sir Crazyswordsman 01:41, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sblounskched!?? 

message: I was wondering why my edit kept gettinfg reverted. The manual of style REQUIRES that capitalization be consistant, yet I only changed the title intor TROGDOR the BURNiNATOR, and left everything else as "Trogdor" :ds: 71.251.130.4 11:56, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  TROGDOR's proper capitalization.. 

message: I know that this may not be important but doesn't the poopsmith shrug in the cartoon from time to time? However, in this it says that he doesn't ever show emotion, should this be corrected or just left alone since it is so minor? --Nogain 03:14, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poopsmith 

message: 'Senor Cardgage' redirects to this article, however he does not appear in the list of charatcers (I would add him but I've no idea what to say about him).  The only mention of him in this article is the bit about Senorial Day, just after this there is a link that says 'Senor Cardgage' in the text but it links to the article 'List of Homestar Runner Characters' which also links back to this article.  Quite a mess. -AndrewBuck 03:50, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Senor Cardgage loopbacks 

message: There is no way that section would be better in prose. Seriously, are there twelve different characters or one complicated, confusing one? --Jnelson09 23:38, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Use subsections. They are more encyclopedic than bullets. —Akrabbimtalk 16:05, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Prose would be appropriate in this case. A well written paragraph that synthesizes the main characters is what is needed, and both subsections and bullet points would have to be changed since they are unencyclopedic for that kind of material.Judgesurreal777 20:23, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have attempted to convert the existing character list into a less "list-like" form.  It is difficult to synthesize into one paragraph all the characters but it may be an improvement. Matches10 (talk) 00:02, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't really like it like that, it seems like it's trying to find excuses to link the characters to each other, and it gives very little information anyway. 99.226.10.146 (talk) 22:15, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

text: This page doesn't need a laundry list of every character from the website. It should be limited to the main, important characters. The rest can stay at the HRWiki. Parsecboy 23:33, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Characters section 

message: I just wanted to make it clear that sloshy is not capitalized and that it is a alternative rock band, not an emo one. 216.126.209.88 16:25, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You would be incorrect; the logo is spelled upside down, but all other occurances of the band name are right-side-up. Take a look at Limozeen vs. sloshy. It's also spelled right-side-up in the listing. Parsecboy (talk) 21:04, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  sloshy 

message: I'm curious as to why the section about the Homestar Runner Wiki was removed. In my opinion, the Homestar Runner Wiki is one of the more stable and well-run and popular fan Wikis on the internet. Why it cannot even have a brief mention in the Wikipedia article about its subject while train wrecks like Memory Alpha continue to have large articles dedicated to them is beyond me.BassBone (talk) 10:13, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Homestar Runner Wiki is a Homestar Runner fansite running on MediaWiki software. It attempts to thoroughly document the various characters and Flash cartoons on homestarrunner.com. Founded on October 7, 2003, it was originally powered by WikkiTikkiTavi wiki software. After users began signing up, and content grew, it was moved to its own domain, and upgraded to its current format running MediaWiki on July 16, 2004.[31] Although the wiki is not run or officially endorsed by the Chapman brothers, they have used it, and donated money on at least one occasion.[32] In addition, every episode of SBCG4AP has thanked the Homestar Runner Wiki in the credits.
It is not only a wiki, it is used by TBC many times and is perhaps one of the biggest wikis on the net. It's not the wiki that you want to vandalize, trolls go down in about 3 minutes, usually. If it doesn't get a part in this article, than it should have its own. If SNPedia gets its article, than why not the HRWiki? -A fan and contributor.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.80.178.109 (talk) 18:32, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homestar Runner Wiki 

message: A bot  has added class=GA to the WikiProject banners on this page, as it's listed as a good article.  If you see a mistake, please revert, and leave a note on the bot's talk page. Thanks, BOT Giggabot (talk) 06:04, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Automatic addition of "class=GA"

message: This is a hopeless stub should be merged in here to build up this article. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 01:43, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Where's an Egg? and Strong Bad Sings merger

message: Why is it that Reinforcements direct to this page?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.101.44.120 (talk) 02:38, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It apparently used to redirect to the old cheat commandos page, but when that page got deleted, someone just redirected it here, to avoid a double redirect. Is there something you were looking for in particular, that would be a better place for "reinforcements" to point? Parsecboy (talk) 04:41, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Reinforcements

message: Why don't we have a page that lists all the Homestar cartoons (like for Weebl and Bob)? I have started one on my userpage. Imjustheretomakebonusstage (talk) 06:20, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems unnecessary; please read Wikipedia:Fancruft and WP:NOT#INFO. — Malcolm (talk) 19:48, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Is it anymore unnecasary than a Weebl and Bob episode list? Or having an induvidual page for every single episode of South Park? If Weebl and Bob can have an episode list, H*R deserves one too. Imjustheretomakebonusstage (talk) 23:56, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Homestar Runner does not come in sequential episodes.  There are some exceptions, but for the most part the toons are not to be taken in any real order. JuJube (talk) 03:13, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, so I guess there really isn't a need for an episode list. On the other hand, what about a list of Strong Bad emails? 71.212.88.85 (talk) 03:29, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  episode list 

message: Shouldn't it be a separate article? It wasn't created by The Brothers Chaps, and most every wiki has it's own article.-- 20:44, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll direct you to the AfD that resulted in the HRWiki's deletion. That should shed some light as to why it was deleted in the first place. Parsecboy (talk) 21:39, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  HRWiki 

message: The HRWiki has an archive of interviews, see here.  Most of them are linked externally.  There should be encyclopedic information there, that all of you extreme mergists ignored. --Sir Crazyswordsman 20:15, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Come now CSM, when we were talking about this I don't think anyone knew where they were, but I will happily help construct such a page if there is enough information. Is there? Judgesurreal777 (talk) 21:28, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Look at what we have in the article right now.  One paragraph related to ALL the characters.  And here I have a plethora of sources, and I bet most of them are WP:RS.  This will be our project for next week. --Sir Crazyswordsman 00:17, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: One paragraph for every Homestar Runner character is nowhere near enough. Wo ought to make a whole article for the characters. I am in agreement. The characters are extremely deep and complex, and need their own article. And SBEmail need an article, too. EmailBoot42 (talk) 23:15, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I love HSR, but the idea that the characters are deep and complex is ridiculous on its face.  They're gag characters that are made to deliver jokes.  I'm not against a "Characters of Homestar Runner" article, but going back to the way it was with fancruft-filled articles on everybody, everybody?  Nunh-nunh. JuJube (talk) 23:24, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think having one article for all main characters sounds like a good idea (if we don't have an article for each character, which I would like better). There is a lot of things you can say about each character, and one sentence cannot say it all. – Homestar-winner 12:04, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

text: I have started creating an article here. I will keep improving the article and adding more information on some of the characters. I will also fix the references to look better. If anyone else thinks they can improve it, they can. Also, this doesn't mean that now we have to keep the article, but it will help people to see how the article would look like. – Homestar-winner 14:13, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recreating a [[Characters of Homestar Runner]] article? 

message: What about the upcoming wii game by the company that made the sam and max games
Thats notableAtomic1fire (talk) 00:57, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Upcoming Wii game?

message: Can I help out on what are the references that have to be placed (if so what), and for the characters section, can this group shot do? Bad-Gy (talk) 19:04, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding the Citations...... 

message: Alrite now, I'm positive that by now at least Homestar and Strongbad have earned their own articles. It's kinda ridiculous that they don't. And Marzipan too by now. These are actual characters just like each member of Gorillaz. And each of those members has their own page. I will certainly contribute massively as possible to these articles once created, once I am sure enough people won't delete it in the name of all thats holy. Let's step it up. 76.27.215.219 (talk) 19:44, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal Pages 

message: Shouldn't this get its own article now? It's a game, not part of the website content.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.82.236.235 (talk) 05:37, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It does have one. See Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People. – Homestar-winner 19:05, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: SBCGFAP

message: The image in the history section isn't early Homestar art, it says on the site it's of Kick the Can Homestar, made 4 years after Homestar was designed. 
:Would the "Various Homestar Drawings" be better? It's the 12th image in the sketchbook section of the museum. ZXS9465 (talk) 22:46, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be better, but it shouldn't be labeled "Early sketches of Homestar Runner".Luigifan1985 (talk) 19:53, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: About this Image

message: Someone deleted the infobox. i restored it. is there any reason it was deleted? ZXS9465 (talk) 14:37, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thing I'd like to know is why someone keeps replacing the Internet Cartoon infobox with the Television infobox. The Brothers Chaps tried to sell their cartoon idea for TV, but when they were turned down they went to Flash and started a website. With the exception of a few clips shown on other shows, Homestar Runner cartoons have never been aired on television. --Lukeonia1 (talk) 08:20, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox 

message: :This discussion is transcluded from Talk:Homestar Runner/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.
 In order to uphold the quality of Wikipedia:Good articles, all articles listed as Good articles are being reviewed against the GA criteria as part of the GA project quality task force. While all the hard work that has gone into this article is appreciated, unfortunately, as of October 16, 2008, this article fails to satisfy the criteria, as detailed below. For that reason, the article has been delisted from WP:GA. However, if improvements are made bringing the article up to standards, the article may be nominated at WP:GAN. If you feel this decision has been made in error, you may seek remediation at WP:GAR. 
*The article needs to be thoroughly copyedited to meet 1a of the good article criteria. Some examples chosen at random:
**"...the creators pay for everything through merchandise sales, which includes a line of T-shirts."
**"... which he has gotten annoyed with."
**"Merchandise sales pay for all of the costs of running the website as well as living costs of the creators, whose retired parents managed many of the business aspects." Why the switch in tense? What's the significance of the conjunction of the two ideas?
*"A very important note; Coach Z's mispronunciation of the Cheat's name as "the Chort" actually was confirmed to be a nickname combining short, and cohort." Why is this a "very important note", rather than just another piece of trivia?
*"As of September 23, 2008, there are 200 sbemails." Inline citations need to be provided for all statistics.
*There are almost no inline citations in the latter half of the article, from Characters onwards.
*"The fact that it takes place on December 25, the same day as Christmas, has been presented as just a coincidence, and it's been stated that Decemberween traditionally takes place "55 days after Halloween". It's been stated where? Who by?
*The article does not meet 3a of the GA criteria, in that it does not cover the major aspects of its topic. We're told that there are games, yet nothing about their reception. What is the volume of online sales? Is it just T-shirts?
--Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 21:58, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: GA Reassessment

message: There have been a number of edits about the podcasts, which seem a bit strange.  I deleted that podcasts were available "for the micorsoft Zune", as I couldn't see any evidence of this.  Now someone has changed "a video-enabled iPod" to "a video-enabled portable media player (such as an iPod)", for which, again, I can't see any evidence. I'll revert, because I don't believe it is supported. cojoco (talk) 21:56, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portable Media Player edits 

message: I don't think 4 Gregs is an official spinoff yet. It's only had one cartoon thus far. 169.233.58.87 (talk) 19:15, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: 4 Gregs

message: Umm, is this really notable? Ive nevur herad of it. (Parden my english, i am still learning) 172.165.129.163 (talk) 22:26, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: it is notable. It's been around for a long time and received lots of media coverage. - Raziel  teatime  23:25, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If you've never heard of it, why were you on its page?! jc iindyysgvxc (my contributions) 22:55, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable? 

message: Should we create an article containing a list of episodes? jc iindyysgvxc (my contributions) 22:23, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Episode list 

message: Shouldn't there now be some mention of the fact that the site is apparently defunct and no longer updated? ---98.223.194.120 (talk) 16:32, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No, they update sparatically every few months. Hold your horses until Monster Safari is out this Summer; it takes 2 Chaps to make a series.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.123.254 (talk) 11:25, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

text: "Defunct" would be inaccurate, anyway--the site is still there, the cartoons and games work, merchandise is available and occasionally goes on sale (sales are pretty much the only "updates" that have happened this year...).  They haven't put up any new content since December 2010, but that's all of five months, folks.  We got to get out of caffeine-jittery Internet time here.--158.111.4.55 (talk) 14:33, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

text: SPORADICALLY, geez 38.99.136.166 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 19:22, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defunct? 

message: I am with WikiProject internet culture and am volunteering to help with peer review and cutting external links. There are also many grammatical issues to resolve. Synergee (talk) 21:30, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Offering help 

message: Why on earth does "Z'Nuff" redirect here?  It's half of a band name that Strong Bad referenced one time.  Is there any rationale for this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.176.240.254 (talk) 10:18, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Z'Nuff? 

message: Is it appropriate for this article to use the past tense? It's obvious that this site hasn't been updated in a few years, but it didn't cease to be, nor was it ever formally announced over. Adrian Malacoda (talk) 02:02, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Past tense 

message: "While Homestar and Strong Bad are the main characters, the site has grown to encompass dozens of other characters over the years."
Are there really "dozens"? On the List of Homestar Runner characters there are a dozen listed... 01:50, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Dozens?

message: There is certainly mention of the Store itself, and that it's still up and running.. but perhaps it should be noted that nothing is actually available anymore. I've been unable to purchase anything from it for months, always told the item I've clicked on is Sold Out. This has apparently caused the DVDs to shoot up in price, if Amazon.com is any evidence. I have no idea how you'd properly "source" any of that except by going and trying it yourself, which Wikipedia doesn't seem to take kindly to things like that. Basically, I'm saying that maybe a note after discussion of the store, in the Hiatus/Downtime section, about how the Store, while still running, is completely sold out and does not restock.--68.6.234.179 (talk) 08:56, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: If someone else reports it, sure, but otherwise it's original research. Trivialist (talk) 12:04, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Empty Store? 

message: Hey, it looks like we saw some new Homestar Runner stuff from the last Wootstock. They just uploaded the scene from the event. I dunno if this is worthy of being added to the article, but I thought I might give you a heads up since this is the first we heard from them in 2 years. 68.41.196.132 (talk) 05:20, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I hope Homestar Runner gets a new update soon. Such a shame that Homestar Runner is on hiatus. The Brothers Chaps have been doing some minor hiatuses to Homestar Runner since December 2005, and there is still no new content as of  , . I hope we get to see something soon. Areusure4 (talk) 17:36, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Return of Strong Bad at Wootstock 5.0 

message: Hey, I don't know if anyone else noticed, but the website homestarrunner.com is showing up as 'server down' on isitdownrightnow.com and .downforeveryoneorjustme.com
I'm not sure who the editor of the page is (I know nothing about editing wikipedia), but this may be something to keep an eye on!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.2.40.111 (talk) 06:09, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: homestarrunner.com is owrking.   The Homestar Runner Wiki does a way better job than this page.  You should visit that.  Are you ready for IPv6? (talk) 21:05, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Website is showing as down 

message: I've been overhauling the page lately to streamline years of inconsistent, outdated elements. The page reads of being the product of many authors with conflicting writing styles, and an unnecessary focus on a handful of irrelevant details, giving a false impression of what Homestar Runner is. In the "Cartoons" section, I feel the level of detail given to minor spin-off series is unnecessary but am unsure how else to cover these elements. Perhaps bunching some together under a single "alternate universes" subheader? It just feels wrong to give the impression of Cheat Commandos being equally important as Strong Bad Email.
Atreem (talk) 11:31, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misplaced Over-Emphasis 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: This article contains a lot of unnecessary WP:FANCRUFT, i.e. website features, and it needs to be removed per the guideline. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 05:04, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
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