Talk:Leeroy Jenkins

message: If anyone hasn't noticed, the origin of the name Leeroy Jenkins might come from a TV Evangelist. No, I'm not kidding. I was watching the History Channel, and there was a Televangelist named LeRoy Jenkins. He's the guy who sells "Miracle Water." It's pronounced "Le" as in "lead" and then "roy," different than "Leeroy." Anyways, thought I'd stick taht up... seeing as Leeroy was a paladin... LeRoy sells healing waters... I dunno, seems like that's where he got the name.
Link:
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/3585/state-orders-evangelist-to-stop-selling-miracle-water  —Preceding unsigned comment added by IronCrow (talk • contribs) 08:09, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of the name 

message: I wonder if any of the comments in the "Racism?" section (above) were posted by people of color. My guess is probably not. But that's not important - in the online realm, reason and logic alone should guide these discussions. Unfortunately, I see little of that. Only one poster cited evidence - an article which states the following: "One forty-ounce-malt-liquor-fueled night when he was getting his electrical-engineering degree, [...] Ben and his friends decided to create the most culturally inappropriate character names imaginable for a bunch of white guys playing video games. Out of Ben's inebriated mouth tumbled "Leeroy Jenkins," a moniker so amusing that he decided to use it for his characters in assorted games -- and, ultimately, World of Warcraft."
We can't simply ask Wikipedians of color whether Leeroy Jenkins is offensive to them. For better or worse, that's not how it works here. What we can and should do is examine Ben Schulz's comment in light of the above quote.
As I see it, Schultz chose the name "Leeroy Jenkins" because of the absurdity (in his mind) of attaching a "black" name to his white avatars. The intonation of his in-game exclamation and later response to other players strongly suggest that he attempts to convey his idea of a "black" persona as well. If we can agree on this much, then it follows that Schultz's belief that stating "at least I have chicken" fits a "black" persona is, indeed, racist. sæ (talk) 21:47, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, we should't examine anything. Thats what WP:NOR is all about. We can state that the name was chosen has a culturally inappropriate name, but we cannot speculate as to why that was the case. Metao (talk) 01:20, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think you might be corect. It seems that the production of scholarly sources simply cannot keep up with an information superhighway in constant need of self-analysis. Given the key role this site plays in internet culture, this is highly problematic. I consider the talk page to be part of the article, and that anybody researching anything vaguely contested should come here... The scholars of digital culture who are likely to write to sources that we are allowed to cite certainally will! If we think an issue matters, then it is good practise to discuss it here, as it is only one click away from the main article, and so that as soon as the pending scholarly source is published, we can stick it right into the main one, having already done the discussion. Courtesy of Gavla 04:11, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Racism Revisited 

message: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiBfF0cSEeM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZjXqXkJ0_Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTDqClH0zGo&feature=related
These three videos commercials played on Spike TV, before the date mentioned at the end of the commercial. Unfortunately, I do not remember which year.
Could someone gather and put up the information on this? I'm a bit busy.
Ulgar (talk) 00:30, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The mentions have been there and were removed due to being unreferenced. Metao (talk) 01:40, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  You might try http://www.lunabean.com/news/20061207_spike_tv_leeroy.php as a likely source. Metao (talk) 01:42, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention at all about SpikeTV commercials parodying? 

message: The article implies that LJ is a character in the game, but he is not. LJ is apparently a fictional game player - the in-game character did not have the monicker "LJ", but the voice of the person playing him did. This isn't made clear in the article either. In fact, no mention is made at all of who voiced LJ in the video. (In effect, which "actor" played the part.) This article is poorly written at present.68.145.161.33 (talk) 13:12, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I couldn't make heads or tails of it.  --71.126.140.46 (talk) 05:33, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Article doesn't explain satisfactorily

message: In this article, this interesting and valuable point " The meme spread further in 2009, when the Armed Forces Journal published an article titled "Let's Do This!: Leeroy Jenkins and the American Way of Advising". The article, by Capt. Robert M Chamberlain, links Jenkins to the American approach to advising Iraq.[11]" is a reference to this article:
http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2009/06/4036672/
this link is dead. The article appears to be copied on this forum:
http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/middle-east-north-africa/52891-let-s-do-leeroy-jenkins-american-way-advising.html
but I can't confirm that this is the exact same article. What should be done about this?206.217.95.210 (talk) 22:27, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead link to Armed Forces Journal Article 

message: I think this article should have a "legacy" section or have its "Reaction" section re-written to incorporate what could be considered legacy (ex. parodies made long after the original video).  (Here's an example of a more recent parody.)  The current "Reaction" section only has what occurred soon after the video was uploaded, whereas a "Legacy" section would have content that was created quite a bit after the fact.  A merged "Reaction/ Legacy" section would have both. -- Gestrid (talk) 06:29, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legacy section? 

message: Was this whole thing a spun up social media promo created by a big media company like Sirius XM Satellite Radio? FireAi.one (talk) 19:24, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is Leeroy now? 

message: Currently this section is essentially an "in popular culture" section and most of the examples are non-notable; it's already tagged for being WP:OR. Personally I'd propose deleting this section in its entirety. All these examples are references to the meme and there's not a strong standard of noteworthiness on any of them; TVTropes exists for people who want a list of every time someone made the reference. At a minimum I think it should be retitled to "In Popular Culture" since the rest of the article describes a player character and these aren't appearances of that character, just references to them (the inclusion of them in a later WoW expansion or Hearthstone would qualify as both an appearance and noteworthy, but both are mentioned in the section above). I don't feel super strongly about it though; anyone else have thoughts? Dylnuge (Talk • Edits) 03:02, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Some, that got noted in reliable sources, can stay, but most of the list should go, because it is original research. Anything left should be rewritten in prose, not a list, because that invites additional cruft to be added, and put in context.  ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 19:01, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I took a crack at revising it and merging it with the above section. I dropped a bunch of the references, since it just seem worth having a massive list when a handful of examples can make the same point. Hopefully this is somewhat better. Dylnuge (Talk • Edits) 00:23, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Also mentioned in Charles Stross' novel The Apocalypse Codex, where one of the characters has a "WWLJD" bracelet (as she explains at one point, "What Would Leeroy Jenkins Do?") ELSchissel (talk) 22:50, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other appearances 

message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psych_(season_6)
Leroy Jenkins was a name of a character used in this episode with the main character Shawn saying the name as it appears in the video. 2601:681:5902:63F0:50D3:E52F:A0EA:1B8D (talk) 19:29, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference to Leroy Jenkins in Psych Season Six Episode 2 

message: No World of Warcraft was NOT the first use of "LEERROYYY!!!". I was on a battle field game with many others. We had a battle arena events. I want to say it was knight online or turf battles but I am not honestly sure of the game title anymore. During the count down BEFORE World of Warcraft (WoW) was even a game. the count down would go 3..2..1 CHARGE!! and each side would run out into the field at each other. Leeroy made mistakes at first but he got the time right down to when "CHARGE!" was being yelled he would jump the end of the timer. So instead of yelling charge at first many would yell at him to basically knock it off, stop jumping the clock! It got to be a fun joke so we started all yelling "LEEROYYY!!" instead of charge. This was years before WoW. I finally came here to put it correct because I get sick and tired of people thinking WoW was where it first started.
I did see him in WoW later and we talked and he laughed and recalled my game name came from those arena events too. I sucked at PVP. So any opponent would camp at the four corners and when i spawn kill me so fast my team mates would see me almost in all four corners. He laughed and said "oh yes you must have been Omni". Yup I was Omnipresent in that same game. So yes he remembered.
So no the leeroy was initially just to replace 'CHARGE!' and NOT some person that ruined it for everybody, nor was WoW the first game it happened in. Granted the video and WoW might be where it became famous, and the meaning slightly twisted, but no it wasn't the first for Ben to use the name by far, or even where the leeroy shout started from. FirstOmniPresent (talk) 03:59, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of the saying?