Talk:This Is Not Happening (The X-Files)

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This Is Not Happening (The X-Files) is part of the The X-Files (season 8) series, a good topic. It is also part of the Mythology of The X-Files, Volume 4 series, a good topic. These are identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve them, please do so.

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July 26, 2012	Good topic candidate	Promoted
September 8, 2012	Good topic candidate	Promoted

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On 7 July 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from This Is Not Happening to This Is Not Happening (The X-Files). The result of the discussion was moved.

Vigouled?

Under the production section, it states, "they vigouled the light to give it an alien look." I looked this up because I had no idea what "vigouling" was, and it turns out it's not a word. Google searching "vigouled" brings up this page as the only result. If someone can't clarify what is meant, it should probably be removed. Someone with access to the cited source: Rabwin, Paul. (2002). Special Effects with Narration by Paul Rabwin. [DVD]. Fox Home Entertainment. may be able to help. Loyalprecision (talk) 03:19, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I completely re-wrote that section. The prose was terrible.--Gen. Quon (talk) 19:52, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Also, just watched the featurette. The word that was mistaken as "Vigouled" was "Wiggled". Wow.--Gen. Quon (talk) 14:44, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Haha, I was just browsing through my edit history and chanced back here. I'm glad I did, grats on solving this two-year-old puzzle. Although what you've discovered actually has some hilarious implications about the editor that put that in. It's clear that they must have audibly misheard the word, because the spelling is way too off to be an attempt at spelling "wiggled." That implies that they misheard the featurette, hearing that the crew "vigouled" the light; they then decided to add that statement to this article even though they couldn't possibly have understood what that statement meant, because it doesn't mean anything, because "vigouled" isn't actually a word. Fascinating. Loyalprecision (talk) 07:32, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I've run into issues with prose that the editor (who, I don't think works on here anymore) wrote. He promoted a good handful of X-Files pages to GA, but they were poorly sourced and got demoted, so I've been trying to beef them up and re-submit them. Glad I could help solve this!--Gen. Quon (talk) 21:50, 10 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Jose Chung

The episode title, "This Is Not Happening", is a line repeatedly stated by a character in the much earlier parody episode Jose Chung's From Outer Space; so apparently this is a sort of reference back. Not sure if worth a mention? Equinox ◑ 20:02, 12 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly, but I feel it would need a reference from a reliable source before we add it in.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 20:14, 12 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 7 July 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Per consensus: move the first proposal, and create dab with the redirect This Is Not Happening for the "The X-Files" and "TV series". (closed by non-admin page mover) Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 22:57, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

– Proposing change of WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, which appears to currently be at The X-Files episode purely because its article predates the television series of the same name. Pageviews shows the television series has been viewed more over the past year, links are 85 pages for the X-Files episode and 187 pages for the series. Wikinav shows 1.5k incoming pageviews for the episode and 1.6k incoming pageviews for the series. It's close, and evidently X-Files as a whole is more notable than TINH, but I think it would require a clear statistical advantage for an individual television episode to be a primary topic over a television series. U-Mos (talk) 11:16, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support I don't see anything wrong with this move.--Gen. Quon_[Talk] 15:16, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose proposed move. The nom clearly shows that the TV series is not the primary topic as there isn't one. Disambiguate both and make a disambiguation page the primary. Gonnym (talk) 21:23, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm OK with this, too.--Gen. Quon_[Talk] 00:32, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per Gonnym, instead create a disambiguation page at the base name -- 65.92.247.96 (talk) 09:29, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.