Talk:Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd.
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[edit] category request
shouldn't we use this article and articles asbout e.g. the tetris (TENGEN v nintendo) and activision v atari...
[edit] Citation formatting
This article hurts my eyes. Is there a better way to cite soruces? I like how this article cites everything, but the constant line shifts really make it more distracting to read. - Hbdragon88 05:51, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- The other option is to use parenthetical notes (i.e., instead of having a footnote linking to "Sheff 121" following "...hand over all records of profits made from the game," have an inline " ... hand over all records of profits made from the game (Sheff 121).") With thirty-two such citations, however, that's going to look really cluttered, and it makes it a more difficult to locate the full citation, since you'd need to scroll down to the references section for the complete info. Aesthetic taste varies from person to person, but the priority should be presenting a well-sourced article. Footnotes are the most effective way of accomplishing that. If the footnotes really bother you, though, you can adjust they way they appear by modifying your monobook.css file (i.e. User:Hbdragon88/monobook.css) to personalize the appearance of the footnotes. For example:
.reference { vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 100%; }
will eliminate the superscript and make the footnote brackets render in the same size as the surrounding text, while.reference { display: none; }
will hide them entirely. This assumes that you're using the default Wikipedia skin (Monobook), of course, but you can get the same results with other skins, as well, but editing the appropriate CSS file. – Seancdaug 06:57, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. Added the line and the article looks a lot better to me. - Hbdragon88 07:13, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Popular culture"
Please, no. I removed:
- This case was selected as #5 Universal Goes Ape in GameSpy's 25 Dumbest Moments in Gaming.
I don't see why that's relevant. I could just as easily say "David Sheff devoted an entire chapter of his book to this case." So what? This maybe maybe maybe belongs in the article, but it needs to be integrated into the main text, not appended as an afterthought in a one-sentence section of its own. And the hard link to Gamespy needs to go down with the other references so that the footnote can match the format adopted for the remainder of the article. — BrianSmithson 13:00, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- Okay, I owe Hbdragon88 an apology. I absolutely despise "In popular culture" sections in articles (see this discussion for why), but I shouldn't have taken that out on you. I've reinstated the GameSpy reference, but I can't access the URL from work (blocked). Can you add the author's name to the reference and check the other particulars? — BrianSmithson 13:42, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Public Domain
If Kong is in the public domain, then why does Toho keep saying they can't remake King Kong vs. Godzilla because the rights would cost too much? They wouldn't even have to pay, would they? Thanos6 19:40, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
- Good question. The character of King Kong and the scenario of ape capturing woman and climbing skyscraper is evidently public domain, so they shouldn't need to worry. — BrianSmithson 20:20, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Kirby/John Kirby
The fact that the character Kirby was named after lawyer John Kirby is definitely worth mentioning. But can anyone provide a source that explicitly says this is the case? Sounds likely, but a source citation would be a good idea. — BrianSmithson 23:46, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Importance?
I changed it from "low" to "high" because this was a really landmark decision - had Universal won, Nintendo might have crushed, and who knows where they might have gone had they been forced to turn over the profits over from DK. Hbdragon88 01:48, 24 August 2006 (UTC)