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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 8, 2019 7:27:39 GMT -5
People make fun of it alot for specific things, but I find wikipedia an excellent source of information... I use it all the time when reading a book or comic to see how close to real life a depicted event was to the actual happening, follow up on authors, etc.
As long as you're looking for facts, and not any sort of editorial, it's great.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 8, 2019 8:05:51 GMT -5
Wikipedia is infamous for having false facts used as legit history.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 8, 2019 9:00:53 GMT -5
Wikipedia is infamous for having false facts used as legit history. It is, but I've not experienced it... the few times I've seen it was stuff that was obviously a joke that was quickly edited back. For example, last year on the entry for 'AFC Championship', some local fan changed the entry to 'the game that happens once a year where the 2nd best team in the conference goes to New England to play the Patriots to determine it's Super Bowl entry' (paraphasing from memory, but it was something like that). It gave me a chuckle Decided to not be lazy and actual find it.. here's the actual entry I was remembering(the edit history says it was only there for 10 minutes, which is weird.. maybe I saw it on some twitter or something from the sportstalk station that captured it): The AFC Championship Game is the annual championship game of the American Football Conference (AFC) and one of the two semi-final playoff games of the National Football League (NFL), the largest professional American football league in the United States. The game is played on the penultimate Sunday in January and is where 1 team plays the Patriots, following the AFC postseason's first two rounds. The AFC champion then advances to face the winner of the National Football Conference (NFC) Championship Game in the Super Bowl.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 8, 2019 11:56:52 GMT -5
I will admit to looking at it for non- political, non controversial subjects.
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Post by Bronze age andy on Oct 8, 2019 12:46:51 GMT -5
Wikapedia is good enough on its own for no more cursory glance at some facts.
The thing that kills me is how few people use the the reference numbers and external links that wikapedia often does provide. If you're not sure how accurate the article is they give you plenty of options to do some research on your own. A lot of people just can't bothered.
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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 10, 2019 20:39:09 GMT -5
After watching a walkthrough of the Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions game on YouTube, I find myself intrigued by the version of Spidey set in the '30s. What did people here think of the Spider-Man Noir mini-series, and is it worth the trouble and expense of tracking it down?
Cei-U! I summon the way cool wallcrawler!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 10, 2019 22:52:28 GMT -5
After watching a walkthrough of the Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions game on YouTube, I find myself intrigued by the version of Spidey set in the '30s. What did people here think of the Spider-Man Noir mini-series, and is it worth the trouble and expense of tracking it down?
Cei-U! I summon the way cool wallcrawler!
I remember liking it. But I haven’t read it since it was new and I’m predisposed to like that sort of thing. I’ll try to dig it out this weekend and reevaluate it.
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Post by The Cheat on Oct 11, 2019 14:30:45 GMT -5
Spider-Man: Noir was... fine. I remember enjoying it enough to read the whole series and the follow up, but I doubt I'll ever go back and read it again.
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Post by spoon on Oct 12, 2019 10:37:45 GMT -5
People make fun of it alot for specific things, but I find wikipedia an excellent source of information... I use it all the time when reading a book or comic to see how close to real life a depicted event was to the actual happening, follow up on authors, etc. As long as you're looking for facts, and not any sort of editorial, it's great. I like Wikipedia a lot, too. I use it for all sorts of things, but comparing a fictional work to the real life events is one thing. People just have to know to use it. You can see whether there is a citation and click on the link to check the cite (unless it's an off-line print source). In my opinion, it's actually really good for many topics that garner a lot of attention, because there is vigorous discussion about the topic. There are a lot of editors watching those articles for errors and talking out issues. The articles in which it's easier for vandalism to go unnoticed for long periods of time are actually obscure topics. There are users (including bots) that specifically patrol new edits generally for vandalism or bad edits, so they can catch things in obscure articles, but they still get less attention.
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Oct 12, 2019 11:09:15 GMT -5
I read somewhere that at their sales nadir in the early 1960s, Batman comic books were being outsold by Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane. I'm trying to relocate the source of this information for an article I'm writing. Can anyone help with a source on this?
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Post by Farrar on Oct 12, 2019 11:13:19 GMT -5
I read somewhere that at their sales nadir in the early 1960s, Batman comic books were being outsold by Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane. I'm trying to relocate the source of this information for an article I'm writing. Can anyone help with a source on this? Try this site, it's the best I know of for the 1960s sales figures. They get their figures from what appeared in the comics themselves (the circulation statements). Here's a link to 1961, you can get the rest of the '60s in the site. www.comichron.com/yearlycomicssales/postaldata/1961.html
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Oct 12, 2019 11:17:30 GMT -5
Perfect! Thanks, Farrar!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2019 7:57:24 GMT -5
There were LPs released for characters like Batman, Spider-Man, etc. Didn't Superman have one, too? And what about X-Men? I have Googled, but can't find much (and the term "Vinyl" just keeps bringing up FUNKO! figures).
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Post by brutalis on Oct 14, 2019 8:12:20 GMT -5
There were LPs released for characters like Batman, Spider-Man, etc. Didn't Superman have one, too? And what about X-Men? I have Googled, but can't find much (and the term "Vinyl" just keeps bringing up FUNKO! figures). You might try googling Power Records. These were the small 45 record versions of comics with stories from Marvel/DC/Television/Movies and Toys.
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Post by MDG on Oct 14, 2019 9:25:57 GMT -5
There were LPs released for characters like Batman, Spider-Man, etc. Didn't Superman have one, too? And what about X-Men? I have Googled, but can't find much (and the term "Vinyl" just keeps bringing up FUNKO! figures). You might try googling Power Records. These were the small 45 record versions of comics with stories from Marvel/DC/Television/Movies and Toys. Many--possibly all--the Power Records are on YouTube if you want to give a listen.
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