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March 1

Feet glued to floor

In this film clip, Shirley Temple doesn't move her feet, and we know she could dance. Neither did the people in blackface behind her. (Not here to talk about the blackface.) Why no foot movement? HiLo48 (talk) 07:59, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Huh? Just because someone can dance doesn't mean they dance all the time, especially if she's supposed to be singing, which is not easy to do at the same time. She's just doing what she's told to do by the director. Shantavira|^{feed me} 15:30, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

To me it seems a very unnatural lack of movement. Why would the director ask for that? HiLo48 (talk) 22:03, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Of course she did what the director told her, but it is a bit puzzling that he chose to make the scene so static. In many other films Temple dances or skips around while doing a song, so it is reasonable to wonder if there is some plausible rationale for this directorial decision.  --Lambiam 00:36, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

She does rock on her feet a little bit. The context of this clip appears to be rehearsal of a play, or possibly an audition. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:56, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

A quick flick through YouTube finds plenty of examples of ST singing but not dancing, or dancing but not singing and a few where she does both but only for a short duration - one has her standing to sing most of the song with a quick tap routine during the final chorus. As pointed out above, singing and dancing at the same time causes breath control issues. Alansplodge (talk) 12:18, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

The staged play shown in the scene may have been inspired by George L. Aiken's very popular stage adaption of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a Tom show that included musical numbers. In its first run, in 1852, the star role of Little Eva was performed by child actress Cordelia Howard. Apparently, here the role is assumed by Sylvia Dolores "Dimples" Appleby.  --Lambiam 13:15, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Apparently, while in the film Dimples does play Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin, the scene with the song "Get on Board" occurs much earlier in the film,^[1] so the film scene may have depicted a rehearsal for the play.  --Lambiam 13:36, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

So it seems that the notion that she always sang and danced at the same time is a myth based on stereotypical movie clips. As Little Eva, would Shirley's character have donned blackface for the actual production? (Meanwhile, if she started doing The Loco-Motion, that would be quite a story). ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:24, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

As described by Stowe, Evangeline St. Clare had golden-brown hair and violet blue eyes and was fair and pale, so I guess she was meant to be white.  --Lambiam 22:36, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

She does some mean tapdancing up and down the stairs.  --Lambiam 22:40, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

And does various movements with her upper body. Sort of dancing in place. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 16:21, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

What an odd question. It's not a dance number. That's why she's not dancing. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 16:07, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

March 4

Left-wing football clubs Europe

Which football clubs are known to have supporters who are left-wing leaning like the ones for St Pauli Hamburg, Marseille, Athens, Livorno, Liverpool and Barcelona, in the following nations: Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. --Donmust90-- Donmust90 (talk) 23:54, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Are you asking about the clubs, like in your section heading, or the fans, like in your question? --Dweller (talk) Old fashioned is the new thing! 11:32, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

If being a mobilizing force for anti-Erdogan protests counts as left-leaning, Beşiktaş, based in the European side of Istanbul, has a strong left-leaning supporter group known as Çarşı.  --Lambiam 21:30, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

March 5

Why do so many national teams wear non-flag colors?

With a little creativity all >200 countries and dependencies could theoretically wear one to all their flag colors (more or less, a tie-dye, Jackson Pollock, camo etc could technically have few or no pixels of a flag color but be a flag color or similar color on average, or heck a bicolor could do a Croatia with each square its own shade pattern so only each square would be flag color-ish on average) without any of the home uniforms looking alike. Also why is it that when national teams *do* want to wear flag colors cause they are and it'd also be possible for the goalies to wear a flag color without any of the 4 groups not contrasting with each other or with stereotypical referee clothes, then why don't they do that? Sometimes they force at least 1 goalie to wear a non-flag color the rest of the team never wears when they don't have to. Do the 5 groups all have to contrast to colorblind people too? For instance the first 22 World Cup game the goalies could've worn white and blue but actually wore bright green and salmon. Salmon is actually a more similar color to Qatar's red than Ecuadorian blue would've been. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 22:31, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

In Australia's case, the flag is in colours imposed on the nation by the British, red, white and blue. The official National colours of Australia, most often used in sports uniforms, are green and gold, reflecting the colours of the golden wattle. The use of green and gold began at least as far back as 1899, actually predating the flag which was adopted in 1901. HiLo48 (talk) 22:58, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

I mistakenly assumed they weren't your national colors. Australia makes sport a bit less unbalanced (some colors/combos have so many sports teams or national flags while other good colors/combos are much rarer than random chance) Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 03:15, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Pittsburgh flag. Also the colors of Hapsburg monarchy and all 3 Pittsburgh teams

A rare color

New York City flag. 3+ sports have an orange+blue NYC team

An early use of green and gold for Australia was in the Baggy green, the cap still worn by the Australian Cricket Team. They played as Australia before Australia officially existed as a country. HiLo48 (talk) 04:05, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

HiLo48, the Australian National Flag (or an earlier similar version thereof) was chosen by Australians in a nation-wide competition in 1901. In 1903 a slightly modified version was approved by King Edward VII (the current version dates from 1908). I don't think it's true to say that it was imposed on us by the British. The King had the final say, but unless it had offended certain traditional flag rules or protocols, he essentially rubber-stamped the Australian decision. It wasn't his idea to include the Union Jack in the upper left quarter, that was all Australia's idea; we were all proud and loyal British subjects back then anyway. (We were still waving more Union Jacks than Australian flags when the Queen made her first few visits to Australia in the 1950s and '60s, even though by then we had become Australian citizens and she was visiting in her capacity as Queen of Australia, not as Queen of the UK.) -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 22:50, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

The Australian National Flag#1901_Federal_Flag_Design_Competition|1901 Federal Flag Design Competition section of that article you linked goes into considerable detail on how the flag was chosen. It was the result of a competition, rather than a vote by all Australians. I don't know who the judges for the competition were, but we do know from that article that entries were judged on seven criteria: loyalty to the Empire, Federation, history, heraldry, distinctiveness, utility and cost of manufacture. Meeting that first criterion of loyalty to the Empire pretty much meant using British colours. A green and gold flag just wouldn't have matched those criteria. HiLo48 (talk) 00:04, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

All true. (I never mentioned a vote, but a nation-wide competition.) But the competition and its criteria was not something imposed on us by the British, that's all I'm saying. Even if the criteria were skewed in favour of the British Empire, it was still we who chose the flag ourselves. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 01:08, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

American teams (other than a national team) will choose whatever colors they feel like using. I can think of several teams that use purple, besides the Vikings: Baltimore Ravens, Colorado Rockies, LSU Tigers, Northwestern Wildcats, and probably a number of others. As for Pittsburgh, the Steelers wore black and gold from the beginning, while the Pirates adopted those colors in the mid-1950s. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:18, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

But that's purely about teams in domestic competitions. I think the original question was about national teams. HiLo48 (talk) 04:36, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Then why post the city flags? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:37, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Ah. Good question. Obviously most teams in domestic competitions will not wear the colours of their national flag. HiLo48 (talk) 04:57, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Unless it's coincidental. The Chicago Cubs wear red-white-and-blue, and while they're popular across the nation, they are not a national team otherwise. Some other MLB teams wearing RW&B include the Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox and Texas Rangers. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:06, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

I couldn't find any current national flags with black and yellow, orange and blue, orange, blue and white or more than 0.3% purple Dominica 0.3% is apparently the record. I don't know if any countries wear any of these. There are no flags over 6% brown either. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 05:35, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

I note that Slovenia plays in green and white, whereas there is no green on its flag. In this case, I believe it's to distinguish itself from all its neighbours, whose flag colors are also predominantly red, white and blue. In the case of Italy playing in blue, I believe that use of the colour predates the adoption of the green/white/red national flag. You'll probably find similar explanations for most other seeming exceptions. Xuxl (talk) 13:34, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

National colours of Italy, Savoy blue and Flag of Italy say red white green is decades older than blue which is the House of Savoy color from Italian unification in 1861 to demonarchization in 1946 but it was the color of the Savoy-ruled part of Italy since before red white green was a thing. And that Italian athletes started wearing blue when playing Hungary (a red white green country) on 6 Jan 1911. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 14:40, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

The Netherlands flag is red, white and blue. Most of its sports teams paly in orange. HiLo48 (talk) 22:35, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Cause from c. 1575 to a slow end 1630~1660 the red was the color of William of Orange (same dynasty as today). But that flag's apparently now mostly either Hitler puppet sympathizers or historical reenacters but solid orange is safe. So 1614-1652 is why a small blob of USA's the only part of Earth where so many places' current flags are "Dutch or French except orange & something superimposed". Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 03:13, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

The England national football team play predominantly in white and blue, whereas the flag of England is white and red. Alansplodge (talk) 13:48, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

I was surprised to learn only the New Zealand soccer second colors is all black. The preferred kit is almost all white. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 01:44, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

You expect the All Whites to primarily play in all black? Nil Einne (talk) 13:38, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Well with their most famous team being All Blacks wouldn't they want to copy the rugby? The newfangled ODI and T20 is also black. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 14:22, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Well as poorly explained in our article New_Zealand_men's_national_football_team#Kit, and better in sources [2] [3], play in an all black kit was not possible for a long time since it was the colour used by referees until 1994. And by the time an all black strip was I assume okay, the white strip and nickname was iconic enough that a change was unlikely. I mean as reflected in the sources, even now when there are actual reasons why the nickname is controversial, getting rid of it is equally controversial. But perhaps not so well explained in those sources, despite the long history of black being associated with NZ sports teams popularised in particular by the All Blacks [4], the trend of nearly every single NZ sports team having black as their colour is I think fairly recent. This [5] suggests around the turn of the millennium. The Black Caps famously used a beige kit once Beige Brigade, although coloured clothing in limited-overs cricket was fairly recent anyway arising from the World Series Cricket (see also History of cricket). Mind you, a lot of the international sports tournaments are some what recent anyway, so previously matches were much more restricted to friendlies and invitational tournaments, and the Olympics for sports which were part of that, so I'm not sure whether there even was a clearly defined colour for the teams once we start to hit the 1970s and earlier especially for NZ given our small size and isolation meant we were away from teams of Europe and the Americas, and in the absence of existing sporting links (like there was for cricket, rugby and some other sports) the games we'd play was probably limited. Nil Einne (talk) 10:36, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

I remember seeing black NZ uniforms in the Olympics. In America a team might be able to get away with wearing all black as referees wear vertical black and white zebra stripes in most sports (not baseball. Their uniform is now dark shades almost as casual as jeans uniform getting more formal the further in the past till there's an 1852 drawing of an umpire in top hat, suit and tie. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 19:59, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

One of the sources did mention NZ did compete in black in their first Olympics in 1920, as well as someone wearing black shorts with a silver fern in 1928 in boxing, and all gold medals in the Olympics being won by someone wearing black. While Stuff is a reliable source, I'm unconvinced they really did the research to check this is true for everyone of those 42 especially the earlier ones. But anyway even if it's true, there is a difference between black and (more or less) all black. Maybe I'm wrong but despite the long term association between black and NZ teams, I'm simply not convinced it was much of an extreme surprise if a NZ sports team or athlete wasn't wearing all black even when there was no rule based or other need (e.g. for the minor heat advantages like in the 2020 Olympics, simply the lack of such clothing) in the 1970s or earlier, or heck even in the early 1980s when the all whites started; as there is now. Nil Einne (talk) 07:32, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Yeah with the global warming and urban heat island growth black will be uncomfortable more and more often. I did remember seeing New Zealand in black in at least one Olympic event. Maybe one of the team pursuits like the 2018 men's skating team pursuit where New Zealand was 1 place below bronze while wearing all black more or less. Maybe I've even seen the All Whites in soccer World Cup and just forgot. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 08:06, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

March 8

Electric Blue Series Song

First of all , I wanna say sorry for my bad English. I hope it is enough to understand my questions.

Many years ago during my youth, it must have been the beginning of the 2000s, I saw a series on the German TV Channel RTL2 called Electric Blue. Electric Blue is an erotic series that was produced by the Playboychannel in the early 1980s.

Personally, I never was a fan of erotic videos and discovered the series while zapping. But I stayed a little longer that evening because a kind of music video was playing. In this music video, a band played a song called "Electric Blue" at a swimming pool. The whole thing was a pop song in which "Electric Blue" was sung for a long time in the chorus. The genre of the song was rock/pop and sounds not uncommon for the early eightys. The song was play in a middle up to fast speed.

Anyway, I really liked the song and I've been looking for it for quite some time.

Does anyone have any information about which episode of the series that was or even a link where the song is played. Thanks for any help. --2A02:810A:18C0:10AC:C2F7:CA7C:32EC:F68D (talk) 14:48, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

A production company named "Electric Blue" produced many soft-porn videos through the 80s and 90s. The theme song for the series was "The Warning" by Broadsword. However, it is possible that you are looking for a specific song in a specific video they produced. 75.136.148.8 (talk) 16:50, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Indeed , I search for a special song aired in one of the episode. There was a band singing on a swimming pool , during naked girls swimming and take a shower. The only part of the song there I remember was " electric blue" but it wasnt one of the electric blue main theme songs.Didnt like that show very much and even in my youth it was primitive in my view. But this band with this song was great. So far as I remember it was on the start of these episode but not the main theme. --2A02:810A:18C0:10AC:C2F7:CA7C:32EC:F68D (talk) 19:30, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Help identifying an album from one of the Billboard 200 § Year-end charts

For context, I'm currently working my way through these charts and making link lists to the albums' Wikipedia articles. I started with the 2002 chart, the earliest one currently available at billboard.com, and am now about two thirds of the way to the most recent one. For the first time, there's an entry I'm having trouble getting to grips with.

There have been a handful of previous occasions when it wasn't immediately clear which of several similarly-titled non-studio albums an entry referred to, courtesy of Billboard's failure to include release years in their charts. But all that was needful was to check the data in each candidate album article's "Charts" section against the year and position in question.

There have also been occasions when an album didn't have an article, but there's such a strong correlation between Billboard-charting albums and Wikipedia-notable albums that those too were only a handful - I haven't kept count, but I'd say very certainly less than 3%, and quite possibly less than 1%. More importantly, for my purposes, there has been zero overlap between the former and the latter handful.

But enough with the generalities, the point is that I don't seem to be getting anywhere with 2016's #155. The billboard.com version (see billboard.com/charts/year-end/2016/top-billboard-200-albums, but may be paywalled) says this:

• Cover: [6]
• Album: The Very Best Of The Eagles
• Artist: Eagles

The print version (see e.g. page "133"/136 in scan worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/00s/2016/Billboard-2016-12-17-(Double-Issue).pdf) says this:

• Album: THE VERY BEST OF THE EAGLES
• Artist: Eagles
• Label: Warner Strategic Marketing/Rhino

Eagles discography § Compilation albums says there are two albums with that precise title, but neither charted at all in the US. One of them has an article, which says it wasn't even released in the US. So probably not one of them. The next-closest title match is The Very Best Of (Eagles album), but there are a couple of reasons that make me doubt that that is the one either.

Firstly, the covers don't match. However, chances are the Billboard one is wrong. It reads "The Best of Eagles", which title does appear in the Wikipedia discography as well, and a discogs search confirms that the cover art matches the album with that title. Like the first two, this one didn't chart in the US. So probably not that one.

Secondly, going by the article, it doesn't seem particularly plausible for that album to chart in 2016. It was released in late 2003 and made it onto the year-end list once, in 2004. The most recent RIAA certification (see the US ref in § Certifications) reads "5x Platinum | February 22, 2008". For comparison, for another "Eagles" compiation, Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975), which is 2016's #146, less than 10 positions apart, the most recent certification reads "38x Platinum | August 20, 2018". For Creedence's Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits, 2016's #156, directly below, there are new certifications in 2016 and 2023.

Thirdly, as just mentioned, that album does appear on the 2004 chart. From what I've seen, whenever an album appears more than once, the name never deviates, down to the capitalization and punctuation. Using the same comparison case as before, which appears a bunch of times, it's always "Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975", never "Their Greatest Hits: 1971-1975" or "Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)" or whatever. But the (print) entry for 2004 is this:

• Album: THE VERY BEST OF
• Artist: Eagles
• Label: Warner Strategic Marketing

(Clearly, capitalization does differ between the online and print versions, but let's call that a stylistic matter.) So probably different albums... at least as far as Billboard's database is concerned.

Neither the Wikipedia discography nor another discogs search supply more candidates, though.

That's as far as I've gotten. Apologies for the long read, any help appreciated!

- 89.183.221.75 (talk) 21:02, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Quick follow-up: The same chart confuses BLACKsummers'night and blackSUMMERS'night - easy to do, of course, but another first. Maybe they were just being overall sloppier that time 'round, for whatever reason. - 89.183.221.75 (talk) 23:53, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

March 10

Soviet film

Can anyone identify a rather bleak film, possibly made post-2000, set in the Arctic circle. Three men are staffing a radar or weather station whose power source is a nuclear reactor the size of a small car. Two leave by snowmobile for a scheduled staff changeover, but the expected replacement never arrives. The lone remainder deliberately opens the reactor, presumably to kill himself by radiation. Doug butler (talk) 02:32, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

If it was made in this century, it is not a Soviet film.  --Lambiam 16:19, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Agreed. A poor choice of title, as I realised after hitting "Submit". Doug butler (talk) 19:49, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Maybe How I Ended This Summer (Как я провёл этим летом)? Alansplodge (talk) 17:34, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

That would certainly be it. Thanks once again. Doug butler (talk)

The article describes the setting as a "Soviet-era weather station", so the remembrance of it as a "Soviet film" is understandable. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 51.198.186.221 (talk) 20:16, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Captain Oates's way would be less painful, I imagine. —Tamfang (talk) 21:02, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

March 11

Master Boot Record (musical artist)

Hi, I'm looking for sources on Master Boot Record for a draft I'm working on, and I have one that seems really good. I was looking for some more with a quick google search and didn't come up with much. If somebody wouldn't mind doing a deeper search for me that would be great. vghfr, harbinger of chaos 20:56, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

March 13

Identify this version of Spider-Man (Solved)

I cannot for the life of me figure out where this version of the costume is from Trade (talk) 21:24, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

The image caption says Spiderman and Kingdom of Hearts mashup. It may be fanfiction visualization and not an official version. RudolfRed (talk) 22:27, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Spiderman is not in any Kingdom Hearts game that I've seen. He does appear in the fanfiction Kingdom Hearts Unlimited. This costume appears to be custom designed because doesn't look like the fan artwork associated with Kingdom Hearts Unlimited. Of course, that fan artwork is custom as well as there is nothing "official" about fanfiction or fan artwork. 75.136.148.8 (talk) 10:51, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

@Trade Looks a bit like this one:[7] Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:47, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Issue being that the photo was taken eight years ago Trade (talk) 16:51, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

...time travel is very common in this context. But point. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:54, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Alright, everything suggests it's a OC costume. Thanks for the help. --Trade (talk) 16:52, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

March 15

Why is it called a changeup?

I know that a changeup pitch in baseball is one designed to make the batter think it's going to be a fastball, but which actually comes much more slowly. But why is it called a changeup? The "up" would seem to me to imply faster, not slower. HiLo48 (talk) 08:04, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

A common phrase is "change [something] up" (presumably because [WAG] one is hoping for an improvement or upturn, as also in "shake things up"). Clarityfiend (talk) 08:45, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

I am in agreement with Clarityfiend. I do not think "up" connotes increased speed. Instead, it connotes tossing a conventional perception up in the air, creating a moment of confusion to gain an advantage. Cullen328 (talk) 09:10, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Looking at my copy of "The Dickson Baseball Dictionary" (1989 edition), it presents an interesting history. The original term, in the 1880s, was "change of pace", which merely indicated varying the speed of delivery. It could be either an increase or a decrease. In time it came to be synonymous with a "slow ball", a pitch delivered with the same motion as a fast ball, in order to confuse the batter, as Cullen suggests. In the early 1950s, the term "change of pace" had become kind of passé, and the term "change-up" or "changeup" replaced it. It means taking some speed off a pitch, and theoretically can apply to either a fastball or curveball. What it doesn't say is exactly how the "up" part of it came to be. But as Clarity indicates, "up" is a very adaptable word. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 11:06, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

"Up" doesn't necessarily mean what it implies in English. If you turn the air conditioning "up", are you making it colder or hotter? Changing something "up" can easily mean the opposite of what some people think and exactly what other people think. 75.136.148.8 (talk) 11:10, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes. I've sometimes heard "slow up" when the speaker actually means "slow down". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 11:12, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

And not surprisingly, we have an article: Changeup. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 11:12, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I'd already found that article. (I forgot to mention that. Sorry.) But it doesn't explain the "up". If you look at the Talk page, you will see I've asked the same question there. Realising an answer there was unlikely to appear quickly, I came here, with much more success. Maybe we can update the article once we figure we have the right answer here. HiLo48 (talk) 22:56, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Note the many uses of "up":[8] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:56, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Looking for the term in Newspapers.com, it seems to have originally been a verb, e.g. a coach telling a pitcher to "change up". And the term was used for other things, such as changing up the members of an organization or whatever. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 11:23, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

page for an actor

hello please help to upload a page for a working actor. thanks Sevenforwiki (talk) 13:41, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm assuming this is in regards to Raayo S. Bakhirta? You were given multiple notices indicating what was wrong with your draft: it did not indicate notability, had no citations, and read like an advertisement. That's disappointing, but creating a new article at Wikipedia is very hard (see Help:Your first article for more) and the general advice we give people is no not do that. At least at first. Start by editing and fixing other articles until you get a feel for what a decent article should look like. Some of the helpful hints provided on your talk page indicate you may have a conflict of interest with the subject. Creating an article about a friend or someone you're a fan of may seem like a good idea, but it really isn't: having an article about you on Wikipedia is not always a good thing. Matt Deres (talk) 14:19, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

thank you Sevenforwiki (talk) 14:57, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

March 16

Characters in the same film looking way too similar

What examples does film history know where characters in a film looked so confusable that it was actually disturbing for the audience and/or their understanding of the plot? Three examples I know so far:

• In Saving Private Ryan, "Steamboat Willie" and the Waffen-SS stabber are frequently confused with each other, changing the plot in a major way for the viewers who confuse them in any direction.
• In Total Recall (2012), at least some people (including me) felt that Jessica Biel and Kate Beckinsale look way too similar to each other (sample forum discussion).
• An Austrian review of Midway (2019 film) complained that dozens of minor roles were filled with good-looking men, barely distinguishable from each other. --KnightMove (talk) 18:05, 16 March 2024 (UTC)