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SASHA GRADIVA - Advertisement ?50.74.196.226 (talk) 23:39, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[edit]

Hello!

The page for Sasha Gradiva states that it is written as an advertisement. It is only stating verifiable fact. Can the page be reviewed again?

Thank you!

The article has many peacock phrases such as "sparked a mass media frenzy", "emerged as an icon", "unique fusion", "multi-talented". These are all opinions or evaluations, not verifiable facts, and are acceptable in articles only if the opinion or evaluation is in a cited reliable source. --ColinFine (talk) 00:05, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Baseball[edit]

I remember the distance to the club house in center field at the NYC Polo Grounds to be 505 feet. Is this correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by SStuBlu (talk • contribs) 03:12, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) No, it was 483 feet, according to the Wikipedia article Polo Grounds. I've got a decent book on baseball parks. Let me look it up. --Jayron32 03:31, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I can't seem to find my copy of Take me Out to the Ball Park by Josh Leventhal: [1], but if you're interested in Baseball stadiums and their dimensions and history, there is no better book out there. If I find it myself, I'll let you know what it says, but if I can't, it's a must-have book for baseball fans. --Jayron32 03:37, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The precise distance to centerfield at the Polo Grounds has been a matter of some speculation, fueled in part by its unique construction. There was a "483" sign posted on the front of the clubhouse overhang. Printed sources also gave distances of 475 and 505. It seems nobody bothered to thoroughly check this out for public consumption before the stadium was demolished, so it's just guesswork. One theory is that the 475 was the distance to the Eddie Grant monument, 483 to the front of the clubhouse overhang, and 505 to the face of the upper part of the clubhouse. Obviously, some individuals knew the correct answer(s) at some point. But they're all in baseball heaven now. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 07:58, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Adventure games based on movies or books[edit]

I've played some of them like The Moonstone and Shutter Island. Can anyone suggest more such games? --Yashowardhani (talk) 11:30, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Telltale's The Walking Dead (video game) (note: not The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct) is highly regarded. It's based on the original Walking Dead comic book, as well as the TV series derived from that. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 11:45, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There is a wide variety of games based on Sherlock Holmes, some good and some terrible. I particularly recommend a series by Frogwares. In one of the games, Sherlock Holmes versus Arsène Lupin, the game designers forgot to create an animation of Watson walking around. This means he's liable to creep up behind you in a most disturbing way. Crack'd has more, including some screencaps: http://www.cracked.com/article_19507_the-8-creepiest-glitches-hidden-in-popular-video-games_p2.html Helene O'Troy - Et In Arcadia Ego Sum (talk) 18:22, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean a specific book? Are you including comic books? If no to the former and yes to the later, Sam & Max Save the World and the Telltale series are based on the Sam & Max franchise originating as a comic book series. Similarly with the two Boneville games. Ignoring comic books, assuming you aren't meaning a specific book. There were 3 Discworld games, the first two can probably be said to share more with the books. I think there was at least one Lord of the Rings and/or Hobbit game that can be counted as an adventure game. There was a Perry Rhodan game (I didn't find it that great). I'm pretty sure there was at least one Nancy Drew adventure game. Directly based of the short story, there was I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (video game). As for movies, there's Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. I don't think any of the Star Wars games really count as adventures but to each their own I guess. If you're including action adventure, I believe quite a large number of movies have had that treatment. (There are also books or short stores, e.g. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. Speaking of which, there was also the more traditional adventure Shadow of the Comet although I'm unclear how far the influence extended for that game from one story/book or series or more the wider Cthulhu Mythos.) Note that if you're including TV series there are Law and Order games, CSI games. Note that for all categories, I'm quite sure there are a lot more then this, I'm barely touching the surface. Nil Einne (talk) 02:11, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

magret[edit]

A woman who recently died in England called magret but i can't spell her surname — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.201.55.46 (talk) 11:59, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I guess you're thinking of Margaret Thatcher. - Cucumber Mike (talk) 13:02, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Google is particularly good at figuring out what you mean in this way...if I type 'magret' into google its very first suggestion is 'margaret thatcher'. ny156uk (talk) 08:48, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Although not so good if you were actually looking for Maigret or Magritte ;-) Alansplodge (talk) 18:32, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@Ny156uk, maybe in the UK but the OP was in Ghana. I'm in Canada and if I type magret I get nothing about Thatcher at all. As per usual the first result is a Wikipedia article, Duck (food) (magret) and the second is a French Wikipedia article. @Alansplodge, what about Magrat? CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 04:24, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Too wyrd... --Jayron32 04:46, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

However the OP wasn't coming blind in to this. I get similar results to you in NZ. But if I try 'magret recently died', it includes results for 'margaret recently died' so the first link is about Margaret Thatcher. Adding england in addition doesn't harm things. Nil Einne (talk) 02:27, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

On DuckDuckGo, this page is result #5 for magret recently died. —Tamfang (talk) 09:29, 1 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]