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May 1[edit]

News video: fake or real? Reputable channel?[edit]

Is this video real, and if so what network does NNC belong to? I've never heard of it, and searching for neither NNC TV nor NNC TV Alaska brought up relevant results. Neon Merlin 00:45, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's fake. The video is a viral ad for Axe deodorant. See http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=5759 Tugbug 01:05, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What song is being sampled?[edit]

This is a question for people who listen to Fort Minor. On their song Believe Me on their album The Rising Tied, there is a short musical arrangement that is played before the lyrics kick in. i.e. the first 30 seconds of the song. I've heard this tune many times before and I'm fairly certain it's not original and that Fort Minor is sampling something/someone. Does anyone know what song it is? Thanks a lot. 208.96.96.207 02:32, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See Believe_Me#Misc. - Zepheus <ゼィフィアス> 23:11, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Chompers" the dog from Will & Grace Episode - Last Ex to Brooklyn, Season 6[edit]

I am in the market to buy a small dog and I am dying to know what kind of dog Chompers is from the episode listed above. It would be the perfect dog for me to buy. Thank you! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.23.155.71 (talk) 03:51, 1 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Apparently Chompers, Earl of Puppydom is a teacup poodle puppy (a teacup is defined as "a small toy poodle that measures 9 inches and smaller.") [1] Here is some video of him. Rockpocket 06:07, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Time Signature[edit]

Can someone nip to this myspace and listen to the song 2 a.m, and tell me what the time signature is? It has five beats to the bar, but I don't know how to do the lower part, the measures per beat bit. Cheers. I would sign this, but I can't find the tilde on a Mac, horrible things.

With these things, you really can choose whatever length beat you want, as long as you can write the music to fit it. For instance, you could write something in 5/8 and play it with each quaver beat very long, or you could write it in 5/2 and play it with each minim beat very short, and get the same effect. Choose a time signature you're comfortable with. Skittle 15:44, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with above user about the time signature, although I doubt you'd want to use 5/2. Try 5/4 or 5/8. --70.251.45.186 01:32, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On a side note, so's you know for next time, the tilde is next to the Z (plus shift). Spiral Wave 20:28, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My tilde doesn't take a shift. A.Z. 20:54, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, so, it's next to the Z, and may or may not use shift.

Now someone comes along and says it's not next to the Z on their Mac, right? Spiral Wave 21:31, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's like ten buttons away from the Z. A.Z. 23:19, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Are you using QWERTY? bibliomaniac 1 5 00:22, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. The actual layout of the keyboard that I am using is American, I think, but I changed the configuration so I press the buttons that are on the same position as those of the Brazilian keyboard, which allows me not to need to learn how to type with this American keyboard. That's useful, because most of the keyboards here are not like that and I would probably be really confused having to change everytime from one layout to the other. A.Z. 01:02, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, so Apple keep moving the keys around on their keyboards. Looks like we've all learned something here today, keyboard fans! Sorry for the diversion, musical questioner-person. (Although you can always copy and paste the four tildes that appear on the edit page, too. If, like, you're really desperate to sign.) Spiral Wave 01:19, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Whenever you are about to edit a page on Wikipedia, there is a big box right under the "save page" button with a lot of simbols. The first one seems to be the tilde, but it's so tiny. I'm going to click it four times and see whether it is really the tilde. A.Z. 01:48, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I take it that was a successful experiment, then! For that matter, you can just click on the bit where it says "Sign your username" at the top of the big symbol box - that will automatically insert four tildes for you. (Can't believe that didn't occur to me ever before.) Like so! Spiral Wave 02:12, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would probably bar it in 5/4, but the easiest way to get the rhythm is as 10/8 (3+3+2+2). It's the same rhythm as used in the Mission Impossible theme, or in the second section of Mars from The Planets (Gustav Holst. Have fun! Antandrus (talk) 01:33, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Naming of disambiguation articles[edit]

The dab article Naked lists two albums, which link to Naked (album) and Naked(album). They only differ by punctuation which looks odd & confusing and probably against some policy of article names. I'm uncertain how to correct the names. My preference would be to name the articles Naked, Talking Heads and Naked, Louise but as there are alread a lot of links to one of these articles I don't want to start something only to find out that I messed up. -- Nick 18:32, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It shouldn't be a problem. If you click on 'move' just above the article, you can do it that way. Fill in the reason as you would an edit summary. this may provide you with more info. I would recommend Naked (Talking Heads album) and Naked (Louise album). Be bold - any move you make can be changed back if someone objects. Sʟυмgυм • т • c 19:17, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I renamed the Louise album and cleaned up the disambig. page. Don't see any pressing need to move the other one. Clarityfiend 02:39, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Personally I would have gone with Slumgum's suggestion above. Where there are two albums with the same title, they should be disambiguated by artist name. Otherwise it looks like Talking Heads are more important than Louise - which may very well be true :) --Richardrj ^talk ^email 07:21, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Louise album has only a couple of mainspace links, while the Talking Heads one has 40+, so it appears that the latter is "more important" (by that criterion at least). I don't mind dabbing a few links, but not that many. Clarityfiend 21:51, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think editing just the template {{Talking Heads}} will change many of those 40+ links. Sʟυмgυм • т • c 22:32, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Beverley Knight song[edit]

Does anyone know the title of the song Beverley knight sang on "Loose women" on ITV today (1/5/07).. Its not listed on LW's website Wikinomad 19:27, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fortunately I missed that programme. No Man's Land is her current single... is that the one? Sʟυмgυм • т • c 19:43, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It was No Man's Land -- Nick 07:44, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]