Talk:Ruby slippers

Pictures
Wow! Thanks for the picture, Hephaestos. How'd you get these puppies in the article so fast? :-) --Uncle Ed 22:21 Mar 20, 2003 (UTC)

Deletion?
Aren't these the most famous movie prop of all time, and more popular at the Smithsonian than the Declaration of Indenpendance? They might also be the most famous shoes in the world.

Title Change?
Shouldn't this page be called Silver Slippers [redirected from Ruby Slippers-->]. I don't know if popularity overrides originality on wikipedia, but here are my points: 1. L. Frank Baum, author of Oz, called them "Silver Slippers". 2. The Silver Slippers are part of the Public Domain. The Ruby Slippers are not. Not that I think it's a copyright problem. But for encyclopedia's sake aren't things in the public domain more entry worthy vs. trademarks. 3. Silver may express a deeper meaning than the Ruby effect does for film 4. It seems to trivialize the author over the prop. 5. The Silver Slippers are represented more times and in more works (other books, movies and illustrations), whereas the ruby slippers only dominatate merchandise. 6. I don't think Silver Slippers should have a separate page. I think this one should be retitled and Ruby Slippers should redirect. --Pyrzqxgl (talk) 08:16, 17 November 2007 (UTC)--67.160.239.65 (talk) 07:49, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

There is no such thing as a "Ruby Slippers Effect"
Software engineers sometimes refer to the ruby slippers effect whereby a program provides a valuable feature overlooked by its user. I've never heard an engineer use this phrase. Far more likely they would say the feature was serendipitous, a bonus, or even an artifact. Possibly even a fortunate happenstance. (A line delivered by the Star Trek TNG character, Minuet in episode... ???)

The only examples of ruby slippers effect on Google (approx 140 at this time) are quotes from this Wikipedia article. A seach of Lexis/Nexis, (while hardly thorough) has not revealed ANY occurrences of this phrase in the media.

Nor has a search of INSPEC, an accademic search engine focusing on the literature of physics and computer science. INSPEC offers a worldwide scope on scientific and technical literature. It includes 4000 scientific and technical journals and some 2000 conference proceedings, as well as numerous books, reports, and dissertations. The phrase is also not found via IEEE Xplore, a search engine of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) publications.

Although it only takes one occurence to prove this phrase is in use, if this phrase is being used, it is not in widespread use by the community.

Can anyone find even ONE occurrence of this phrase in the wild???


 * Given the above seems to be true, I see no reason that line should remain in the article. I'll delete it. --woggly 05:40, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

It may not be a phrase, but the 1939 MGM movie had no special effect. Lucasarts did some for 1985's return to Oz--Pyrzqxgl (talk) 08:18, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Can't provide you a citation but when I worked at Microsoft (2003 - 2008) we used it to describe both an overlooked feature--80% of the feature requests we received for MS Office were for existing features (this led to the ribbon bar)--as well as an oddly common class of bugs where trying something three times (to be fair, probably anything more than twice and less than) would cause it to eventually work. I still work in software development and I still use the phrase in the tech sense as well as in comparable non-tech scenarios. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.226.73.146 (talk) 20:52, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I've proposed merging the other article regarding The Ruby Slippers with this one. There's no point in two. Wildhartlivie 05:26, 18 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Support - I support this merger, as per nomination. -TabooTikiGod 07:34, 6 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I too support this proposal. --Stevejarrettnc (talk) 17:56, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

This article should be merged with the Silver Shoes page. There is no reason for the Ruby Slippers to have their own article as they are only seen in one movie interpretation, and that the Silver Shoes are the original form of the shoes. If no one posts any objection to this within a few days I will see about mergin this article into the Silver Shoes article. --Preator1 (talk) 00:55, 6 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Ultra strong oppose. There is plenty of material for two articles and no compelling reason to merge the two. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:07, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

World of Warcraft?
IMO the World of Warcraft paragraph, currently in the article, is not encyclopedia material for two reasons. 1] It is basically trivia.

2] It is written in language so specific to the W of W game that it is close to meaningless to anyone else. Wanderer57 (talk) 02:27, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Big Gaga discount?
Lady Gaga's "original pair" cost £25K?! Yeah, right. I've got a nice bridge I can let you have equally cheaply. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:56, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

External links modified
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Why are they called slippers at all?
They're shoes Matt2h (talk) 00:58, 29 June 2021 (UTC)


 * This is explained somewhat at the end of the lead section. The 1900 book referred to them as "silver shoes", but screenwriter Langley is understood to have changed them to red for the color film. "Ruby slippers" does sound more exotic than "red shoes". —ADavidB 02:10, 29 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Naturally the titular footwear of the The Red Shoes were (ballet) slippers. Clarityfiend (talk) 17:40, 29 June 2021 (UTC)