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June 1

Kids tv show

Is it true that there was a childrens tv show with characters called "master bater" and "semen stains"? Nileia6h (talk) 10:28, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There's a persistent legend that the 1960s-70s BBC cartoon Captain Pugwash included characters called "Master Bates", "Seaman Staines" and "Roger the Cabin Boy", but it's not true. Pugwash's crew were called Master Mate, Barnabas, Willy, and Tom the Cabin Boy. The show's creator, John Ryan, successfully sued two newspapers for repeating the untruth. Here's what Snopes has to say about it. --Nicknack009 (talk) 11:08, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oliver Twist, on the other hand, did feature Master Bates (Charlie Bates is referred to thus, more than once). --ColinFine (talk) 18:46, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Song played in the movie "The Sacrament "

Hello there, I have watched the movie " The Sacrament". In that movie, a certain song started playing at 20:59 minutes. It was a kind of rap song. The song started when lead actor Joe Swanberg started playing basketball with some boys in playground. What is that song name and who is the artist? Thank you.--180.234.18.232 (talk) 10:56, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the track listing from the soundtrack album at iTunes. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:25, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The song is "Farafina" by Art Melody

Hollywood

Nowadays actresses are coming out of the closet left right and centre. Are there more lesbians in Hollywood today than in say 1950, or are they just not hiding anymore? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rotationalvelositioty (talk • contribs) 15:19, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No real way of knowing, given that as you put it they may have been hiding back then. Mingmingla (talk) 15:54, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OP has been blocked as a sock. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:57, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What is so important about Jimi Hendrix?

Wikipedia listed Jimi Hendrix as a level-3 vital article, what is so important about Hendrix which makes him as important as Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Wagner and so on? -- Bkouhi (talk) 21:31, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We don't answer requests for opinions, predictions or debate. MarnetteD | Talk 21:35, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, sorry for asking this. -- Bkouhi (talk) 21:37, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

More to the point - that's a question about how Wikipedia works, rather than about Hendrix himself. Try WP:Village pump as a place to ask that sort of question. AlexTiefling (talk) 22:15, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You might also ask at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography or the Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians since their members will have taken part in the assessment that gave the level 3 designation. MarnetteD | Talk 22:28, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Frequently Asked Questions includes "what makes an article 'vital'?" and "How are articles selected?". Mitch Ames (talk) 03:26, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

To address the OP's question somewhat anecdotally . . . Yesterday I was listing to the BBC Radio 3 programme Private Passions (which is like a more highbrow version of the better known R4 programme Desert Island Discs). The guest, who is one of the World's leading Assyriologists from the British Museum, included a Hendrix track (Hey Joe) in his selection, citing him as "the most important guitarist of all time" (or words very closely to that effect). I think comparisons to composers and/or performers of similar stature to those the OP mentions were also made, but I can't remember the details. (The programme will be available on the internet via the BBC's iPlayer for at least the next 6 days, should one have access.) {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 212.95.237.92 (talk) 13:33, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Appearing on the same list does not imply equal importance. It's more like a claim that people on the list are more important than people not on the list, but there can of course be different opinions about that. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:45, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]