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Roses by any other name[edit]

RE: "The Oompa-Loompas are dwarves in Roald Dahl's fictional books"

I am questioning "fictional books": would that not refer to books in fiction or books that are fictional? Would novels be a more correct phrasing? Canonblack 00:38, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Or just 'books' or 'fictional novels'? maybe?

--Rachel Cakes 08:47, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"Dwarves" also questionable. Other than in Tolkein, isn't "dwarfs" the plural? I must change it. In fact, are they dwarfs at all, or a distinct race of short humanoids? Gwaka Lumpa 20:35, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I definetly dont think they are dwarfs. I think Dwarfs could be spelt either way, like the word fairys has two spellings (fairys - faeries)

Since Tolkien, the spelling Dwarves has become much more common.

Oompa-Loompa?[edit]

Any reason why Oompa-Loompa isn't hyphenated in this article? It is in my 1964 edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. –Shoaler (talk) 21:06, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's also hyphenated in subsequent editions. Unfortunately, a redirect already exists, so an admin has to do the move. We can at least fix all uses of the term. I've also changed "Loompa Land" to "Loompaland" for the same reason. --Viriditas 08:45, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Uh, you don't need to be an admin to move a page if the name is taken by a redirect with no history (i.e. the only edit in its history is its creation). I've moved the page to Oompa-Loompa for you. =) — Indi ^{[ talk ]} 15:36, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not entirely sure that was the case in December. MediaWiki upgrades notwithstanding, I think I tried to move the page when that comment was made, and it wouldn't let me. —Viriditas | Talk 01:49, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'm not sure what the situation was then either. At least this makes things easier now. — Indi ^{[ talk ]} 21:52, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oompa-Loompa enemies[edit]

The article claims only that the first movie mentions other predator beasts. In fact, the book mentions "hornswogglers and snozzwangers" (spelled with two z's). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.93.212.216 (talk) 04:39, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am the Walrus[edit]

I was just listening to I am the Walrus by The Beatles (on the new Love album) and noticed it has the words "Oompa Loompa, Stick it up your Jumper" under the final chorus. I added this culturally significant info tidbit into a renamed references section Sparkzilla 15:24, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Page protection[edit]

Does anyone else feel like the regular instances of vandalism to this page merit semi-protection from IP edits? In the previous 50 edits, about half of them consisted of vandalism, and it doesn't look like that's likely to change anytime soon. Cue the Strings 21:25, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Disambig[edit]

Given the social engineering attack by the same name, is it time for a disambiguation page? Jouster (whisper) 15:48, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I do not think they are from africa, but am not a oompa loompa historian

According to the Politically Correct Oompa–Loompa Evolution link at the bottom on the article, originally Oompa Loompas came from "the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had been before." This was changed in the 1973 edition.

Upa Rupa[edit]

The spelling of the japanese phrase may need verification. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.227.137.105 (talk) 02:14, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

did u delete the lyrics?--Superjoesh (talk) 00:44, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2005 film[edit]

should it not be mentioned that the Umpa-Loompas in the 2005 adaption are all played by the same actor? I would really like to know who that is, in fact that is why I came to this page in the first place. 124.79.100.17 (talk) 15:18, 9 January 2010 (UTC) Don't know his name but i know he appeared on "heckler", that Jamey Kennedy documentary about critics. Hope that helps somehow. 174.42.206.246 (talk) 19:09, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]