Talk:Ellen Feiss/Archives/2012

Script?

I think it would be fair use to include a text transcript of the ad in the article. Other ad commentary sites include full text. Frankie

"I was writing a paper on the PC, and it was, like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. And then, like, half of my paper was gone. And I was, like, huh? It devoured my paper. It was a really good paper. And then I had to do it again and I had to do it fast so it wasn't as good. It's kind of a bummer."

Movie

Ellen Feiss is apparently doing a movie called "Bed and Breakfast" according to ellenfeiss.net, on the entry dated January 11th, 2006. Can any find anymore sources on this?

High School Grad

Is she still a high school student? She'd be a senior or graduated by now. -User;Carie

Television

I'm pretty sure this commercial never aired on television and was only on Apple's website. —User:ACupOfCoffee@ 07:09, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Then you'd be wrong. I remember it well from the boob tube. - unsigned

Seconded. I remember seeing this commercial on TV several times Shostie 17:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Error Diagnosis Removal

I removed this from the entry, it is really unnecessary:

(The incident she describes in the commercial is presumably an operating system crash which prevented the keyboard buffer from being read, causing it to fill up. The BIOS on personal computers will often cause the motherboard's speaker to beep with every keystroke when the keyboard buffer is full.)

Etan 02:27, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Egad, what an overdose of geek! (Not to mention unwarranted speculation.) 82.92.119.11 00:23, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

I like this fact and I think it should be included, just my 2 cents. Is "overdose of geek" a valid reason to not include information? --Krakko 22:23, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Overdose of geek isn't at all a reason to not include this. Pure Speculation is, however a great reason. BillMcGonigle (talk) 18:32, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

OK< I've stuck it back in. Hippo X 09:21, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

This seems to be original research, though. 89.155.4.227 (talk) 00:47, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I removed this again. Not only is it OR, but it doesn't make any sense. While it is true that the default BIOS keyboard handler will beep when the buffer is full, no modern operating system uses the default BIOS handler. The BIOS handler is replaced as soon as the OS loads. This should really have a cite in order to warrant inclusion. Power piglet (talk) 06:22, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Music?

Does anyone know the name of the music in the background? It seems awfully familiar.--SeizureDog 02:50, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

According to Apple Switch ad campaign, it's "Spit" by John Murphy. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 07:24, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

"Drops the Call"

There has recently been a series of Cingular ads that feature someone remarkably similar in appearance to feiss complaining that a network has dropped her call. Just giving the heads-up so that someone less lazy than I to deal with. 71.107.7.189 01:35, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Do you know if any of these commercials are online? GagHalfrunt 14:35, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

This is one of them - http://www.outtacontext.com/life/images/cingul@r.html -, but I believe the one in particular is the one with a girl standing in front of a library with a bucket umbrella talking about her gossiping when the network died. 70.35.227.160 04:58, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Oh, yeah, that's her. You can tell by the tie.Everett3 01:38, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Stop deleting the links

Just because you don't think they are useful doesn't mean that no one else does, Kaldari. The Soundbytes link is one of the best Ellen Feiss pages out there (I've looked all over for them). It deserves a mention just as much as the other fan site. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 23:49, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

If they remove the Amazon affiliate links I will gladly re-add the page. Otherwise I consider it spam (especially since it was added by the site's owner himself). Kaldari 00:07, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Affiliate links do not make a site a "commercial" site. Even if it does, every newspaper and network site out there has ads up the wazoo, so ads are not a valid reason for discounting a site. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 00:18, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Being a "commercial" site is not what Wikipedia cares about. It only cares about self-promotion. I.e., self-promotion is spam no matter if the site is non-profit, personal, or commercial. —Saxifrage ✎ 21:31, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Note that Wikipedia:External_links#What_to_link_to in the section "Links to be normally avoided" lists as item 4: "Links that are added to promote a site, that primarily exist to sell products or services, with objectionable amounts of advertising, or that require payment to view the relevant content, colloquially known as external link spamming."

The site in question doesn't appear to be designed primarily to sell stuff, have objectionable amounts of advertising, or require payment for viewing. Note in particular that it is not advertising per se that is bad, but having an "objectionable amount"; as observed previously, newspaper sites and other very informative sites often have advertising. As for self-promotion, perhaps it was originally self-promotion, but when another editor (unaffiliated with the site) adds back the link on the basis of its relevance and utility, the "self-promotion" objection is no longer valid. Removing a useful link on the basis that it was at some point in the past added by the site's creator doesn't make sense. If you want to argue it's not a useful link, that's a different matter, but the arguments given here so far for removal are not convincing. --C S (Talk) 03:32, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Right. I was under the impression that the OP was the link-adder.

As a side note, utility is actually not the best way of considering whether a link should be in an article, and arguing about it here will cause a lot of consternation. Note that WP:EL has a very narrow range for what are "good" links that doesn't actually overlap very much with a more general concept of "useful". This point is where many people get confused about the policy: people argue what's useful for some people or not, forgetting that Wikipedia isn't supposed to be even a limited directory of links to useful information. Rather, a "useful" link in the Wikipedia sense is one that adds something to the article that would be inappropriate or impossible to add directly to the article as text or media, but should be "in" the article somehow anyway. Linking to stuff for the sake of linking to stuff is the job of the Open Directory, not Wikipedia. — Saxifrage ✎ 03:59, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree. It is spam. The site owner, on a personally owned site, deliberately put up those Amazon links him/herself. —pink moon1287 12:24, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

AMV Hell

Does AMV Hell really deserve an entire paragraph ? This looks more like personal advertisement. My suggestion is to do a real list of spoofs/parodies or else remove the paragraph. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.57.10.217 (talk • contribs)

I agree - totally irrelevant here, I have removed it. Sfacets 22:43, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Regarding ellenfeiss.net.

This is a discussion on why or why not ellenfeiss.net should be included within Ellen Feiss. As far as I can tell it doesn't fall under any of the Links to be avoided. And it seems to contribute more to the article than either of the other two external links. Anyone else have any input on the matter? Johaen 23:55, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

This is a blog and so fails #11 on the links to normally be avoided. It's not a reliable source and Wikipedia has a long history of removing links to fansites. --Yamla 00:10, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Blah. I did not recognize it as a blog until now that you mention it. Kinda frustrating, because I do believe it to be a fairly decent source. Definitely better than either of the other two external links, although the links in the references section seems to cover most of the info on ellenfeiss.net. Johaen 00:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

variety seeking buyer behaviour

Is it ok to say that this was an example of variety seeking buyer behaviour - a way to entice the consumer who had adopted a habitual approach to PC consumption to look at an alternative.. ? Kendirangu 18:10, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

No. Please see WP:NOR. --Yamla 18:25, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

post ad life?

no one has allowed anything to be put up about ellen feiss's life after her commercial!!! so much has happened to her, including a rather significant weight gain in recent months. in addition, she has checked herself into multiple self-help programs, including an Arlington, Massachusetts adult education seminar on learning how to "let go." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.116.14.100 (talk) 02:00, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

put a fork in her she's done —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.218.13.188 (talk) 00:10, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Notability?

This seems like a straightforward case of WP:BLP1E - a person 'notable' for only one event. It should probably be merged or redirected to Apple Switch ad campaign. Robofish (talk) 21:13, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

On the other hand, secondary source coverage far outlives the one event (suggesting notability outperforms the one event), and WP:WI1E says "When an individual is covered for a single event, and the spotlight follows that individual into his or her new endeavors, WP:BLP1E and WP:BIO1E have not been held by the Wikipedia community to be compelling reasons for deletion." The spotlight has followed Ellen Feiss into her college studies, and now even job seeking... Lionel Elie Mamane (talk) 19:17, 17 August 2010 (UTC)