Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)
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This should go in the current politics threadGo woke, go broke; or, ITMA!
Nazi Space Spy
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Wrong thread, but still fantastic work. I notice the maps are different from the usual style, which I think is pretty cool.Go woke, go broke; or, ITMA!
Guess Ya' missed the big NO CURRENT POLITICS in the actual TITLE of the thread.
NEVER even approach this level of "stuff it" again.
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Grown Ups (with Chris Farley) (you are here)
Here's an infobox from where Chris Farley survived his drug overdose in 1997 and continued on making and being in movies.
Grown Ups is a 2010 American comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and written by Adam Sandler and Fred Wolf. It stars Sandler and the four other Saturday Night Live "Bad Boys", Chris Farley, Chris Rock, David Spade, and Rob Schneider. The film tells a story of five lifelong friends who won their middle school basketball championship in 1978. They reunite three decades later for a 4th of July weekend after learning about the sudden death of their basketball coach.
Grown Ups was produced by Sandler's production company Happy Madison Productions and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Sandler, Farley, Rock, Schneider and Spade all joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in the 1990–1991 season; supporting cast including Colin Quinn, Maya Rudolph, Tim Meadows, and Norm Macdonald have also been SNL cast members.
Although the film was poorly received by critics, audiences had a more favorable opinion of the film, with many expressing nostalgia due to the coming together of the SNL Bad Boys, it grossed $271 million and led to a two sequel, Grown Ups 2 (2013) and Grown Ups 3 (2016).
Sorry if the infobox is "bare-bones", guys. I don't have Photoshop so I can't past Chris Farley's head onto Kevin James' body on the poster or put his name in. I also don't know how to put images into infoboxes that were not originally on Wikipedia.
Grown Ups (with Chris Farley) (you are here)
Here's an infobox from where Chris Farley survived his drug overdose in 1997 and continued on making and being in movies.
Grown Ups is a 2010 American comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and written by Adam Sandler and Fred Wolf. It stars Sandler and the four other Saturday Night Live "Bad Boys", Chris Farley, Chris Rock, David Spade, and Rob Schneider. The film tells a story of five lifelong friends who won their middle school basketball championship in 1978. They reunite three decades later for a 4th of July weekend after learning about the sudden death of their basketball coach.
Grown Ups was produced by Sandler's production company Happy Madison Productions and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Sandler, Farley, Rock, Schneider and Spade all joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in the 1990–1991 season; supporting cast including Colin Quinn, Maya Rudolph, Tim Meadows, and Norm Macdonald have also been SNL cast members.
Although the film was poorly received by critics, audiences had a more favorable opinion of the film, with many expressing nostalgia due to the coming together of the SNL Bad Boys, it grossed $271 million and led to a two sequel, Grown Ups 2 (2013) and Grown Ups 3 (2016).
Sorry if the infobox is "bare-bones", guys. I don't have Photoshop so I can't past Chris Farley's head onto Kevin James' body on the poster or put his name in. I also don't know how to put images into infoboxes that were not originally on Wikipedia.
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See? The big banner on the thread doesn't help at all. Therefore it's time to take the eyesore off.
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The thread has been going for almost fifty pages and this is the only time we've had one.
CrushTheSaboteurs, the fifth Wikipedia infobox thread also had the "Do not post current politics here" banner on the top.
I am aware, that's where I got the disclaimer from. If I were to remove the disclaimer it will probably end up getting moved to chat like the list thread.
Nazi Space Spy
Banned
I think the current politics problem could be solved by having an After 2000 board for all modern day timelines/threads.
The problem with having it in the chat board is that it gets buried in the avalanche of discussion threads about current events.
The problem with having it in the chat board is that it gets buried in the avalanche of discussion threads about current events.
What about my post, does that count as current politics? Even if I blacked out names?
All I’m doing is trying to play it safe as much as I can.
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I think yours is fine seeing as the POD is far enough back. I think the general rule of thumb is don't post anything set during or after the last election of whatever country, organisation, or whatever they currently involved in
The rule exists because a lot of current politics is very charged for people and the mods do not want to deal with every other thread devolving into shouting, flaming and the like or mass kickings. There's enough of that in Chat and occasionally in other threads
I think it is a lazy and useless rule considering 90% of content that counts as current politics in threads like this one and the presidents list don't generate any discussion at all. And when they do it's technical stuff like "nice map" and "how did you get that link in the infobox." The other 10% gets drowned out after a few pages by the continued posting of content, because that's how these thread works. The rule's primary effect has turned out to reduce the posting of content overall.
Nazi Space Spy
Banned
I agree with the rule. I just think timelines focused on current politics get buried by the general discussion threads. I’m proposing that there should be a board for these kinda timelines while actual generic discussion threads stay in chat. If you disagree with a political premise of a timeline, that discussion could be had in chat.
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