Talk:Calvin and Hobbes/Archive 4

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Setting

The interview in Comics Journal makes it amply clear that this comic strip is not set in New York. These constant incorrect reversions are not helpful. Avi 16:00, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Bill Watterson has said him self, I believe in that interview, that Calvin and Hobbes takes place in the Midwest, and he has hinted that it takes place in his hometown in Chagrin Falls Ohio, although he's never directly stated this.

Mjg0503 22:13, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Removed fansite from External Links

I removed a fansite which an anon IP had added to External Links. Browsing through it, the most appropriate content I could find (as far as anything the WP's articles would be referencing) was the page on foreign translations, which includes scans of translated strips. I'm adding this link to Calvin and Hobbes in translation now. Anville 07:32, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

link added

i could access the link, so adding it back. --vineeth 09:00, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I still can't; my browser sits at "Loading. . ." and never gets further. (The server's pingable, though.) What's the page about? Anville 11:10, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

The site has the completion collection of calvin and hobbes cartoon strips, another good thing is that the text in the strips have been indexed and is searchable, for e.g., if you search for "spiff" , you get all strips pertaining to the spaceman spiff. very good site. Try accessing it on firefox, some bug in IE might be preventing it from loading :) --vineeth 14:22, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I am using Firefox. My userbox doesn't lie. (-; I can't access it using any other browser on my computer, either (including lynx). From your description, though, it sounds like the site may be violating Bill Watterson's copyright. Does it give the images or just the text of the dialog balloons? If it has the images of all the strips, then it is a clear copyright violation, no fair use arguments about it, and standing Wikipedia policy prohibits linking to it. Anville 16:22, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry didnt see the firefox userbox :^), they have mentioned the copyright properly, even the date when it was published, i dont see any copyright infringement issues in the site. Do you want me to mail the screenshot of the website? --vineeth 16:42, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

To be honest , i am not very good at judging copyright stuff, so you can help --vineeth 16:45, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't matter if they say "copyright 1995 Bill Watterson"; if they duplicate massive amounts of his work, then they're still infringing. If you could mail me a screenshot, I'd be glad to give a more informed opinion. Anville 08:06, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

I have uploaded it here, please check and take necessary action. --vineeth 17:04, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Strips reproduced at high resolution and with no commentary or other things that could potentially justify fair use. . . All the strips reproduced. . . I'm going to remove the link on copyright grounds. Anville 07:34, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I belive you are allowed to post large amounts of Universal Press's comics on a site. (with permission) Read the text under "content" on the following web page:[1]. --FelineFanatic13 22:32, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

More evidence that UPS allows the reprinting of its comics. Click here [2].--FelineFanatic13 15:00, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Footnotes

This article could really benefit from wikipedia footnotes, rather than the "(Andrew, 1989)" type tags on various paragraphs. Any (more able than me) wikipedians fancy updating it? --OscarTheCat ^talk 17:25, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

I would, except that yesterday I put a whole lot of work into changing the references in Thomas Pynchon over to cite.php footnotes. Then I looked a couple hours later, and someone had changed them all back. Anville 07:30, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

I will set up the in-line citations as wikilinks to the reference sections now. In line citations (Harvard citations) are better than footnotes, per se, because you have the source in the text. But you are correct in that linking them helps. Give me a few minutes. -- Avi 22:39, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

OK, look at it now, I think that it's much better. Let me know if I left one out. -- Avi 23:03, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Copied from User:Oscarthecat

Hello Oscar. Did you not read the talk page? I spent a long time wiki-ing all of the in-line citations so that they link to the references, specifically to keep the nature of the in-line citation, and you went and footnoted them all. I appreciate your being bold but it was not necessary. Secondly, please see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes#Converting_citation_styles. It is preferable not to change footnote styles, especially if the issue of linking was already solved. Please carry on further conversation on Talk:Calvin and Hobbes. Thank you. -- Avi 15:24, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh crikey. Sorry Avi, I thought the footnotes hadn't worked, as they weren't appearing as ^[1] and the like. I see how I've misinterpreted it now. Once the page is enabled for editing once again, will you be able to revert back to your edit, and trash my erroneous edits? --OscarTheCat ^talk

15:30, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

No problem. Being bold is always a good thing. The protection is my fault anyway, I asked for it after Tripod et al kept on switching the setting back to western NY. I'll ask a few admins, and hopefully it will be reverted soon :-) . Thanks -- Avi 15:32, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Reversion Request

Can somone revert back to this edition: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Calvin_and_Hobbes&oldid=39799418 Thank you. -- Avi 15:32, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, Woohookitty. -- Avi 15:45, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Calvin and Hobbes setting

To quote Bill Watterson himself (emphasis added is my own):

"It’s a midwestern strip. I think I have midwestern sensibilities, and I think the strip clearly reflects that. I’m comfortable with that aspect of it, especially from the standpoint that it would ring false if I tried to do something else."

— Bill Watterson, http://ignatz.brinkster.net/ccomicsjournal.html

Please stop changing this to New York. Thank you -- Avi 18:55, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Removed Fansites and Slate Article

I have removed Michael's Calvin and Hobbes Website, the Calvin and Hobbes Album, and the Slate article from the links because their material is already present in the other sites linked here. From now, please only link unique Calvin and Hobbes sites. You've seen one Calvin and Hobbes geocity site, you've seen them all.--FelineFanatic13 14:46, 23 February 2006 (UTC)