Talk:Web Encyclopedia Song
(Original creation by Elf, since history not preserved in move from en:User talk:Elf/TempSong)
There are still a few rough spots here and there. I only have so much time (not) to dribble away on such useful articles as this one. Suggestions welcome. Elf | Talk 23:04, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- You are a sad, sad woman :) I suggest changing :
"And clarifying facts about rare subatomic particles"
- to
"And clarifying facts about them subatomic particles"
- (or the, or some), as rare (ray-er) has two syllables and breaks the cadence. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 00:06, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Ultra-Music. You should upload a file of you singing this. --Menchi 07:32, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
This is great. It should go in the humour section at meta rather than be hidden in the user namespace. A see also to m:1776 parodies and m:Wikipedia haiku might be a good idea too. Angela. 00:57, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Kudos![edit]
Beautiful, even with the occasional extra syllable. --NealMcB 22:25, 2004 Jun 4 (UTC)
Official Wikipedia song (redux)[edit]
Originally at the village pump
Since the original discussion (currently archived in Wikipedia:Village pump/May 2004 archive 2), I've been tossing and turning all night just *knowing* that the right song was only a moment away. It finally struck me in a dream last night--and the lyrics were right here all the time. They just needed a wee bit of updating and correction--OK, a whole bunch of changes--for our particular situation. Using the specifications in that original discussion, I present for your comments The Web Encyclopedia Song. Elf | Talk 22:58, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- No, no, it should be based on Ko-Ko's song in The Mikado, "I've Got a Little List" :-) Seriously, very apropos. Nice! The funny thing is that it was just the other day that I was noting, in the article on Caratacus, that it can also be spelled Caractacus and that it's a version of the name Caradoc. (A Caradoc, a Caradoc, a most ingenious Caradoc...) And, of course, in VfD we were just discussing making Quadranomial expansion a redirect to Multinomial formula... Dpbsmith 19:13, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Caractacus gets around. (ingenious Caradoc... boo... (a play on "A paradox..." from another G&S operetta)) I now remember a song from childhood about "The ladies of the harem of the court of King Caractacus..." but I always thought it was a made-up name. Wikipedia enlightens me again! Glad we've got multiple Gilbert and Sullivan fans here, although I'm afraid that it won't translate well into other Wikis--has G&S ever been successfully translated into other languages? There's so much word play. Elf | Talk 19:37, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
May I suggest[edit]
Possibly "It's thoroughly inclusive, too, of collaborational" could be changed to "It's thoroughly inclusive, too, it is collaborational" to keep more with the cadence. Just a thought-Beligaronia