Caption Discussion/Repair Thread: Convenient Photograph

I suggested this:

"The elegant arm flourish of a Disney King (even when he's a bit tipsy)"

For Disney School of Acting and Mime image that's just been added by crowner.

I think now just "The elegant arm flourish of a Disney King - a preliminary sketch of Sleeping Beauty's King Stefan" might work?

Edited by GracieLizzy on Feb 17th 2024 at 12:25:33 PM

Re: Bizarro Elements: While "when the fire nation attacked" isn't really a "niche" reference (though that's not universal, of course), I'm insure if it helps illustrate the image. The "candy nation" joke helps a bit by reinforcing candy as an element, at least, so maybe I'll keep it, but it could perhaps be captionless too.

The caption doesn't have to help illustrate the image, it can just be a joke. Although in that case, I'd argue it is helping illustrate the image since it's point out that candy is an element and that's unusual.

agreed

The label note of ReferencedBy.Akira is unnecessary long. Is it okay to remove it ?

Yes, absolutely. I think that's most of if not all the description from the cut Sliding Bike Stop.

Double-post, but Asian Buck Teeth has a really bizarre, explain-y caption. Can I cut it?

Yeah, cut it. It acts like there's a site rule that pics can't come from offensive sources unless they're parodies, which isn't inherently an issue especially for a stereotype trope.

I find Spotlight-Stealing Title's caption to be needlessly referential (with a bit of Fan Myopia). Is that just me?

I agree with ya on that.

I've just voted in favor of "This is such a cool weapon!" I didn't touch any of the other options.

Is there a reason why the caption of The Jeeves uses the actor's name instead of the character's, when the photo is clearly of his character?

I guess to avoid being redundant with the title?

Eh, good point. It's not too much of an issue so it's probably fine as is

The caption for Has Two Thumbs and... was changed recently from "Scalpers?" to "Ticket resellers?" by Languid Nest 2003; apparently because the former is a slur. I'm not sure about this change because that is clearly not the intended definition since the image has absolutely nothing to do with Native Americans.

The page you linked lacks any citations or evidence for it being derogatory, and Wikipedia’s list of ethnic slurs—which covers countless obscure terms—doesn’t contain a single reference to it. I say revert.

100% revert. In addition to , I've never heard of "scalpers" used as a slur.

Edit: Wrong thread. Sorry.

Edited by Bullman on Feb 23rd 2024 at 2:43:28 PM

Ride.Pirates Of The Caribbean and Franchise.Pirates Of The Caribbean have a dupe problem as both pages share the same caption, I get "A Pirates Life For Me" is iconic and all, but still, we should probably only keep one of them.

We could keep the current on the franchise page, since it's pretty iconic and is present in both the rides and the films to varying degrees, making it a good neutral caption.

As for the ride, I was thinking one of the taglines from Disneyland's version of the ride, since it is unique to the ride.

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Feb 23rd 2024 at 7:32:03 AM

Shoryuken recently had an IP thread, resulting in a caption that states "Forward-Down-Forward-Punch".

However, the traditional command input for the Shoryuken is "Forward-Down-Downforward-Punch". Nitpicky, I know, but I feel we should fix that.

Edited by Spark9 on Feb 24th 2024 at 8:35:05 AM

Sure