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[edit]NES soundtracks
[edit]Did any Nintendo games have standalone soundtracks? Not counting bootleg stuff or "retro" compilations, but official concurrent tie-ins. Like Pac-Man Fever or Killer Cuts, but just for regular Nintendo. InedibleHulk (talk) 07:25, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
And not counting stuff like Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin'. Just those with the same versions from the game (a little sweetening is fine). InedibleHulk (talk) 07:28, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
- Lizard is an NES game that was funded on Kickstarter but hasn't had its final release yet, only a demo. The soundtrack is already available. --Bavi H (talk) 01:36, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
- I was thinking more of the dusty past, when albums cost money and physically existed, but yeah, that works. Thanks. InedibleHulk (talk) 23:48, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Are the following download sites fake?
[edit]http://filefist.com/201519, http://fileunlckr.com/26013, http://grippedownloads.co/PlantsVsZombies
I tried to download the game using these sites by participating into listed offers. Even after participating into offers, I am not able to get a download link. I want to know whether these download procedures are working on your pc or not. If there are other alternatives, please suggest me. 223.176.33.9 (talk) 10:02, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
- I can say that WOT rates them all as untrustworthy. —Tamfang (talk) 10:28, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
- The game you're trying to download, Plants vs. Zombies 2 for PC, doesn't exist. The same fake "it works" comments appear all over the web. -- BenRG (talk) 16:07, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Well-organised hoax article
[edit]Hello, I have recently found what I think may be a very well-organised hoax article, claimed to be of a minor pop star named Nahla Rowe whose only album went top 5 in 2006 and has since become a fashion designer. There's a photo of them on Wikimedia uploaded by another single-use account a few months ago, and a few videos on YouTube claiming to be of interviews with them and of the songs from their album - all from the last few months by single-use accounts that never did anything else again. (The songs uploaded are actually ones by a minor R&B artist named Katharine McPhee with the titles changed.) I've put in an RfD on the article with discussion, but this seems so organised - they even put in WikiProject links! - that it might not be a one-off. (This person has an active Twitter page - one of my theories about the article is that it may be a real person whose Wikipedia page creator added a lot of fake material about a past as a pop star.) Any thoughts on how to deal with this? I'm not any kind of expert on entertainment Wikipedia articles, was just looking at the new pages feed. The accounts concerned are User:Musicbiblegod (for the article) and User:Fashionhousedaily who uploaded a photo of this person Blythwood (talk) 10:04, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
- Well, it appears to have been speedily deleted. See WP:SPEEDY for the procedure to follow in future. Clarityfiend (talk) 12:34, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
- This is the type of thing that turns up in wikipediocracy's ridiculing editorials from time to time. Someone might create a hoax article that stays below the radar for years, until someone such as the OP here happens to run across it. Nomination for deletion is a good course to follow if it's a routine hoax. If it grossly violates Wikipedia rules, such as being a BLP violation, taking it to ANI might get faster action. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 14:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
- Hello all. I understand from Wikimandia that the endgame of this appears to be to sell a scam album of songs copied from other artists on iTunes. (Apparently this kind of thing has happened before - see Joyce Hatto.) Let me know if you see something else like this. There's a sockpuppet investigation into them opened which you could also contact if you see something. And yes I know - fortunately these attempts got spotted early. Blythwood (talk) 23:44, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
- It was definitely very well organized and totally new to me. YouTube "interviews" and videos, a well-written and nearly plausible resume, a Twitter account with 50k+ followers, all with photos of the same person. You have to take a closer look - almost no interaction on Twitter (ie retweets, responses) and music videos are recently created with only about a dozen views. I had to reverse search a lot of photos until I tracked down the real person in the photos - a very pretty but unknown fashion designer whose claim to fame was rumor she was dating Nick Cannon. —МандичкаYO 😜 01:38, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
- Agreed. I've now been alerted to a Buzzfeed article about what seems to be the same crew active this summer. The good news is that SPI has concluded and everything's been deleted. Best of all, we can now see that sockpuppet Logicequalslogical participated in deletion discussions on non-notable musicians - and often voted delete! Sounds like they were trying to pick up experience at sounding convincing. Damn these guys are good. Blythwood (talk) 01:42, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
- It was definitely very well organized and totally new to me. YouTube "interviews" and videos, a well-written and nearly plausible resume, a Twitter account with 50k+ followers, all with photos of the same person. You have to take a closer look - almost no interaction on Twitter (ie retweets, responses) and music videos are recently created with only about a dozen views. I had to reverse search a lot of photos until I tracked down the real person in the photos - a very pretty but unknown fashion designer whose claim to fame was rumor she was dating Nick Cannon. —МандичкаYO 😜 01:38, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
- Hello all. I understand from Wikimandia that the endgame of this appears to be to sell a scam album of songs copied from other artists on iTunes. (Apparently this kind of thing has happened before - see Joyce Hatto.) Let me know if you see something else like this. There's a sockpuppet investigation into them opened which you could also contact if you see something. And yes I know - fortunately these attempts got spotted early. Blythwood (talk) 23:44, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
- I've checked, and found the "Nahla Rowe" music on Spotify, Tidal, iTunes, Microsoft Music and Amazon. Shazam identifies it as Katharine McPhee. I find it difficult to imagine how a scam could go this far without anyone discovering. Can a stunt of this magnitude be pulled off without the cooperation of someone who actually is in the music business? --NorwegianBlue talk 17:27, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
- This is the type of thing that turns up in wikipediocracy's ridiculing editorials from time to time. Someone might create a hoax article that stays below the radar for years, until someone such as the OP here happens to run across it. Nomination for deletion is a good course to follow if it's a routine hoax. If it grossly violates Wikipedia rules, such as being a BLP violation, taking it to ANI might get faster action. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 14:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
"Broadcast and Streaming" section on TV Series articles
[edit]User:KateWon has added "Broadcast and Streaming" sections to multiple TV Series articles. For example, on The Office, it says
All seasons of The Office can be streamed on Netflix[207] and Seeso (as of January 7th 2015).[208] Episodes may also be purchased through electronic sell-through platforms such as iTunes[209], Amazon Video[210], and Vudu.[211]
This seems like content that isn't Wikipedia worthy, and so should be removed.