Talk:Every Second Counts (video parodies)

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Official videos only

There are numerous unofficial videos appearing on YouTube, Facebook and what have you that are not listed on everysecondcounts.eu. Any random guy with a computer can make one, but this contest is between satirical late-night talkshows. I'm going to delete all of them until they are listed on the official websites. Unless there is significant mainstream media coverage of unofficial ones (which we may still list separately), fancruft will not be allowed on Wikipedia. Thank you. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 11:44, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Official videos only - but then, not really?

I understand why you do not include "inofficial" videos in your list (even if some of them really ARE funny...). But then, it seems as if there are several videos that are acknowledged by everysecondcounts.eu, but are not made by late night shows (e.g. Morocco, Slovakia, Malta, etc.). I wonder where the line is drawn between "acceptable" and "second rank" videos - and I think the list could well be extended by the "inofficial" videos. You could add an additional column to the table and starr the "official videos"... Timo Niedermeyer (talk) 19:42, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Official" video acknowledges "Unofficial" videos

It should be noted that the "Official" video by India (i.e. the video linked from everysecondcounts.eu) acknowledges three videos that are not listed on everysecondcounts.eu. At 15 seconds into the India video, there is a an image of 12 stills, with at least 3 of the stills (or 25% of the images) being from videos that not listed at everysecondcounts.eu. The 3 videos are:

America first, Kazakhstan second
America first, Mars second
America first, Baden-Württemberg second (this one has been taken off of YouTube for violation of copyright)

Hence, it seems that while being listed at everysecondcounts.eu has some indication of notability, the website is not authoritative on the subject. While it's true that anybody can produce such a video, the reality is that to produce such a video requires some technical and artistic skills that form a barrier. This is why we don't see the existence of millions of such videos, but rather in the low hundreds. Banana Republic (talk) 22:49, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Entries not listed in article

Given that there is no easily identifiable authority that we can use to decide what to list and what not to list, perhaps the next best thing is to list here any entry that purports to be an Every Second Counts video parody, but for whatever reason we do not feel should be listed. Banana Republic (talk) 19:32, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Entity	Date	Creator(s)	Link	Reason for no inclusion
Belarus	13 February 2017	Свабодка	Video	Foreign language
Belarus	15 February 2017	Helen Si	Video	Background music is distracting (includes vocals), Shows the face of the announcer, No title card
Burkina Faso	6 February 2017	TeleVieDeo	Video	No background music
Esperantujo	11 February 2017	Jana Suna	Video	No background music
Finland	Unknown	Unknown	Video	contains a commercial promotion Shows the face(s) of the announcer(s)
India	5 February 2017	TheCrazySchlauAal	Video	Low quality audio No title card / Intro does not follow the format
Pakistan	27 February 2017	dontdriveat88	Video	Background music is distracting (includes vocals), Title card does not fit the pattern
Philippines	17 February 2017	Willard Losinger	Video	No background music, Video is mostly stills or long clips from other shows
Russia	7 February 2017	Hank Volansky	Video	Background music is distracting (includes vocals)
Suriname	Unknown	Unknown	Video	No title card, No background music
Switzerland	3 February 2017	Hans-Martin Leopold	Video	Inconsistent use of background music Does not mention Trump's "America First" anywhere within the video
Taiwan (Republic of China)	27 February 2017	Li-Ji Hong	Video	No background music, No video (images only)
Berndiaffe's Jungle	17 February 2017	Berndi	Video	Subject is not notable
Boboland	6 February 2017	Armin Heimburg	Video	Subject is not notable
Commander Geek	4 February 2017	Commander Geek	Video	Subject is not notable
Rockabilly Artworks	6 February 2017	Rockabilly Artworks	Video	Subject is not notable
FancySoftware	8 February 2017	FancySoftware	Video	Video narrated by a computer generated voice No background music Notability not established (no articles in either English nor German Wikipedias)
Seven Kingdoms (video game)	10 February 2017	Seven Kingdoms	Video	No background music, Video is mostly stills
Mars	4 February 2017	Captain Sveid	Video	No background music, computer generated voice
Mars	7 February 2017	PineappleXVI	Video	Does not mention Trump's "America First" anywhere within the video
Microsoft Word	11 February 2017	TheCrazySchlauAal	Video	No title card, Script written as a tutorial
"My garden"	23 February 2017	A self sufficient living	Video	No background music, Subject is not notable
Duty free	17 February 2017	The Moodie Davitt Report	Video	No background music, No video (images only)
Kompatainment	16 February 2017	Kompatainment	Video	Subject is not notable
Leibniz Gymnasium Altdorf	16 February 2017	Maximilian Greger	Video	Subject's notability is questionable, as the subject lacks an article even on the German Wikipedia (see this disambiguation page on the German Wikipedia)
Paulington	5 March 2017	Paulington III Archiv	Video	Subject is not notable No video (images only)
San Escobar	14 February 2017	San Escobar	Video	No background music
Super Mario	9 February 2017	The Mario moment	Video	Video narrated by a computer generated voice
Swabia	3 February 2017	S:Passiert	Video	Video seems to be cut off (only 30 seconds in duration) No title card
Valsugana	11 February 2017	Visit Valsugana	Video	Foreign language
Volketswil	5 February 2017	Harmonie Volketswil	Video	Does not mention Trump's "America First" anywhere within the video