Talk:Emoticon/Archive 5

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smiley program

I remember that quite some time ago there existed a program for the Unix command line which decoded smilies for you. It was called smiley (who would have guessed :-)), and typing e.g.

smiley ';-)'

gave output similar to

irony, sarcasm

I have tried to find that program, but with no success. Does anyone know if it still exists, and where to find it? --92.226.210.113 (talk) 17:05, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

This is getting ridiculous (again)

The table of "common examples" in the section on Western style Emoticons is (once more) out of control. Te List of common emoticons article was created as a repository (or battleground) for listing actual emoticons. This is a factual article. Having a few examples for illustration is great, but the current state is out of control and beyond overkill. Many entries are just plain ASCII art -- not emoticons at all. More are not WESTERN, and most are by no means COMMON. furthermore, the lead-in states:

A list of some of the most common emoticons follows.
As displayed here, they all use a relatively consistent form,
but each of them can also be transformed by being rotated,
having the hyphen omitted, and so on (see Variation below).

So adding variation in the list itself is redundant and counter productive. 90% of the as it exists is trash in the context of this article, so I'm replacing it with a small table of actual common Western style emoticons. If you can't live without your personal favourite being shown in Wikipedia, then PUT IN THE List of common emoticons article -- it does not belong here. --Invisifan (talk) 21:35, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm missing the list that had such things as ヽ(´ー｀)ﾉ. As far as I can tell (and I'm probably mistaken), that's just entirely gone, short of looking into history. Could we perhaps have an extended table elsewhere. I can appreciate not having a long table here in this article, but having the link at the bottom "list of common examples" link right back into the parent article for a dozen smileys that we've already seen when reading the article doesn't seem right. --Frogblasttheventcore (talk) 04:17, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

I agree. There are so many examples in this article, its ridiculous, the list of standard ones should stay, but the ones in the prose of the article need to be cut down. I've been working on it, but these teeny-boppers keep adding more :P --Dan Leveille^TALK 01:24, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

OGC

I don't understand how including OGC is unconstructive. It is a posture emoticon, and a very common one in that. One sees OGC much more frequently than OTL. Is it taboo/vandalism simply because it is sexual? Boo. --128.62.172.120 (talk) 21:08, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

The disambiguation page for OGC contains a link to the emoticon article as well. Certainly some information should be provided in the article about it for those being redirected to it. --128.62.172.120 (talk) 21:10, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

There needs to be like a separate lost of these things. --( fi ) 04:19, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Emoticons and Copyrights

There is a legal limitation on size of digital work in regards to copyrights. Since work too small, it's not really "tangible"? Does anyone know these limits? Many pixel-emoticons can't be copyrighted because of this. This would be good to add to the Intellectual property section of the article. --Dan Leveille^TALK 05:15, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Link labeled "More emoticons for OUtlook, AIM, Yahoo Messngeer, IE, and Firefox"

The link labeled "More emoticons for Outlook, AIM, Yahoo Messngeer, IE, and Firefox" (www.emoticoncity.com) should be deleted, as it takes you to a download that has a Trojan Horse payload. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.124.33.56 (talk) 12:38, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Please change nineteenth century to twentieth century

{{editsemiprotected}} The text reads:

Although historical antecedents go back to the nineteenth century, the emoticon as we presently use it traces directly back to a proposal by Scott Fahlman in a message of 19th September 1982.

It should say twentieth century (started January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000)! Chris-at (talk) 12:43, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Doing... Leujohn ^(talk) 13:16, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Not done The phrase is correct. Leujohn ^(talk) 13:21, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Russian emoticons

Hi, Someone should add that russian speaking countries normally use expressions like: :))))))))))))))))))) or just )))))))))))))))) to express they are very happy :)))))) 88.88.126.142 (talk) 06:27, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Do you have a reference to prove that? Reliable Forever ^talk 14:50, 31 December 2008 (UTC)