Talk:Little green men/Archive 1

Actual little green men
The entry does a really good job of outlining the origins of the term and idea (is it possible to have a little timeline down the side I wonder?) but there are few actual accounts of LGMs being seen. For example the Hopkinsville Goblins weren't green but more of a glowing silver colour, although this hasn't stopped people from having the Kelly Green Men Festival. Sightings are more common in South America, where a wider variety of extraterrestrials are reported, but they have cropped up in North America too (Emperor 18:11, 19 March 2006 (UTC))

old talk
The title is sexist (not sex-neutral) Should be "little green persons" :-) Pdn 15:04, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * In fact, it's size-ist and colour-ist as well. It should really be Persons of a certain size and colour (or Sized coloured persons, perhaps).-Ashley Pomeroy 17:47, 29 May 2005 (UTC)


 * man - See that one of the definitions is a general term for person. It could also be said to be specieist in that same way. ~  Ghelæ  talkcontribs 18:27, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I've divided the article into two distinct sections: LGM-1 (which is what the article was about originally) and Extraterrestrials. I've also extended the Extraterrestrials section. --Bruce1ee (Talk) 10:57, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Origin of "green"
It may be worth including that extraterrestrials are green because of old idea (dating to beginnings of science-fiction and canals on Mars) that they could live off sunlight, like green plants. This was part of image of aliens as technologically and scientifically advanced, peaceful and well-organized to the extent of being capable to mount exploration of Earth, build planet-wide canals on Mars and catch humans for experiments. I cannot trace it to the source, but this idea was still floating around in early 1980's. 131.152.84.114
 * Well, can you find a source, at least one which can be ref'd to in the article? ~  Ghelæ talkcontribs 09:55, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Heavily Aubeck-centric article
This entire article is essentially a fawning resummation of original research conducted by seemingly self-appointed "folklore researcher" Chris Aubeck. Either more citations should be found for the incidents in question, or a lot of the stuff should be pulled. &mdash;Ryan McDaniel 21:55, 6 July 2007 (UTC)


 * There aren't exactly a lot of people who have bothered to research the origins of LGM. Aubeck has done the most research on the term and reproduces on his website scans of the articles he's turned up in his electronic searches, tracing the origins back to the beginning of the 20th century.  In other words, it's not just his say-so:  he can prove the articles with the term LGM exist.  You can go read them for yourself.  Seems like a very good source to me and I fail to see what is "fawning" about it.Dr Fil 06:36, 11 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I'll assume you're right&mdash;I can't check Aubeck's website right now&mdash;and "fawning" was perhaps a bit over the top anyway, so sorry about that (and to Aubeck, too, if he's reading this). In any case, wherever possible, the references to Aubeck's site should be replaced by references to any original documents he's got there.  My objection was a citation that basically read like "well, this one guy says...."  I'll do it myself when I've got time, or of course you're welcome to (especially since you seem a little more familiar with the subject than I am). &mdash;Ryan McDaniel 18:11, 11 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Apology accepted :-) --217.125.215.83 20:28, 6 August 2007 (UTC) [User:Chris Aubeck]

Martians, Go Home
How about include Martians, Go Home in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.55.135.125 (talk) 22:33, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

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Little green men and ufology
The Little green men were or are studied by ufology?--200.126.106.146 (talk) 00:55, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

New Picture
What exactly is going on in the picture of the man shaking hands? I need some sort of description or it should be taken down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.245.208 (talk) 00:24, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

I agree. It seems to be created by a banned user too. I require a caption, description, source or other credibility note. As far as I know this could be a heavily photoshopped CGI graphic superimposed on this male. Theoboyd (talk) 23:17, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Picture
I cannot believe this article has no pictures. This must be remedied. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 15:16, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Two years later, I agree! The lack of pictures ruins the article. Thedreamdied 21:30, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is so paranoid about copyright violation that even low-grade, thumbnail images of obvious historical and educational interest have been deleted. I posted two for LGM, one from an old Buck Rogers comic book cover, probably older than the 75 year limit on copyright, but not provably so.  The other was a publicity shot of Yoda from Star Wars on the Wikipedia commons, also eventually deleted.  Fair use copyright doctrine would easily accommodate such images, but Wikipedia doesn't want to wade into the legal gray area of "fair use."  I've pretty much given up on posting images.  Too much work and too many nitpicky editors.  Too bad.  Images add a lot to an article.Dr Fil (talk) 17:22, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Please see the section on New_Picture for updates to this issue. Theoboyd (talk) 23:18, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

merge with greys?
Just judging by the picture, they look almost identical. They may not be separate species, in the same way dark skinned humans are not a different species then light skinned ones. 75.174.239.239 (talk) 01:31, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

French comic book
There's a French comic book series titled "petits hommes verts", drawn by Patrick "Pat" Mallet. Its green aliens are not only aliens but also a kind of rather harmless perverts who feel a strange attraction to human females in various states of undress. Maybe it could be mentioned? -- 92.226.0.183 (talk) 02:27, 6 June 2012 (UTC)