Talk:Smiley

Russian smileys 1896
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https://cult-ural.ru/%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8-%D0%B2-%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.92.31.29 (talk) 21:06, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Ray's Food Place 1980s
I can't find references for this, but Ray's Food Place used this as a logo in the 1970s and 1980s. I'm not sure why they stopped. There are still some stores with windows with the ghost image of these logos on them. http://www.ckmarket.com/ 67.169.49.52 (talk) 05:59, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Proto Smiley 1957
Ken Nordine's Cover for his 1957 jazz/jive talk album Word Jazz featured a strikingly similar, yet more stylized version of a talking happy face, which may have inspired the canonical version. Spikeysnack (talk) 03:13, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Richard Ball vs Harvey Ball
The smiley article suggests a Richard Ball invented the smiley face. The Harvey Ball page suggests it was Harvey Ball, as does his own page. Harvey Ball is also mentioned here. It can't be both, can it? ElectricRay (talk) 11:26, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Smileyworld?
Reads like an ad. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.28.136.12 (talk) 05:27, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * You’re right, it’s way too sketchy. I deleted it. (Interested parties, check the archives.)
 * It didn’t just seem like an advertisement; it seemed like a veiled threat to anyone who would deign to use a smiley face without paying this creepy company. They’re gone. Cherry Cotton (talk) 10:06, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Holy crap... that's horribly POV. Not to mention kinda creepy. Funny how it's back there when it's been deleted in January.167.1.143.100 (talk) 23:27, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * wth, why did you delete smileyworld? it was totally legit and related to this article.  wonderfully written. >:(  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.72.25.210 (talk) 01:41, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * This article states: "Loufrani had created the icon in 1971" and "created by freelance artist Harvey R. Ball in 1963." It would appear impossible for both to be true - suspect the 1963 date and creator are correct. It would appear that Wiki is perpetuating some French guy's scam. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.158.61.140 (talk) 18:05, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Japanese
Thanks for having the explanation of Japanese smileys. That cleared up a lot of things for a lot of people, including me. ;-)

Add more
Add more smiley face pictures seriously the page is boring! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.253.43.146 (talk) 20:36, 16 April 2010 (UTC)


 * tap•2 2601:8C0:C202:4CC0:86A:DF2B:55E3:416C (talk) 08:12, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Only basic smileys useful
I wanted to provide some evidence to buttress my assertion that only the most basic smileys are really used with any frequency. I thought I would try performing a Google Groups search on some of the smileys, but apparently the punctuation marks confuse Google, as searches on

":-)"

and

";-)"

simply produce blank pages (no hit counts).

Are there any Google experts who know more about Google's search syntax and know how to ask Google to search for colon, hyphen, close-paren? Dpbsmith 23:14, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * Hello Dpbsmith,
 * The use of :, ;, - and ) are being ignored.
 * Greetz, 80.126.238.60 (talk) 16:54, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Duplicate
Doesn't this article duplicate a lot of material from emoticon. Look at the list of smilies, for example. Should this material be moved to emoticon or vice-versa? Should the two be merged and emoticon be made a redirect to Smiley? I hate to have two seperate articles that discuss the same thing differently. &mdash;Frecklefoot 17:17, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * You're absolutely right. IMHO all the content in "Smileys on the Internet" should be merged into Emoticon and be replaced with a link to Emoticon. Dpbsmith 17:26, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * In theory and common speech; yes, but in fact no. The reasons involve the restrictions of the copyright on "Smiley" etc --restrictions on what can be said here. Obviously the owner does not want smiley=emoticon, and to Hell with common lingo and all those rich derivations and related stories. Also; this is a classic example of how copyrights and other so-called intellectual rights can rob the public of value/wealth. (The USA has the world's highest acceptance of easy intellectual "property" rights (to the few, restrictions to the many) and the strictest enforcement.) In fact, the emoticon article is not only more germane, but far better, and I think the claimed rights and resulting chilling effects are why. --71.133.255.249 (talk) 03:12, 27 January 2014 (UTC)Doug Bashford

British rave culture
I'm sure I remember the smiley being one of the major images attached to the rave/ecstacy culture in Britain in the early 90s. I think it was common (might still be) to have a smiley on one side of an E pill. -- Jim Regan 22:30, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * "Acid House" was definitely in the UK chart mainstream by the late '80s; you couldn't get away from it in the summer of '88. I've moved the time back accordingly. - Astatine 16:14, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

Guy Smiley
Isn't there also a Muppet named "Guy Smiley"? I don't know much of his history, so I can't really contribute a lot, but if memory serves... - - Gingerkitteh
 * Yeah, there was -- Guy Smiley, dubbed America's favourite game show host.

ASCII
Why did they put the ☻ and ☺ in ASCII? See Code page 437 for what I mean. --Abdull 20:35, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

graemlins
An editor who wrote on Smiley (disambiguation)
 * Smileys are sometimes referred to as graemlins.

may have meant what they said, that "graemlin" is another word for smiley, in the article's sense, but this is not clear, especially since that would mean it belonged in Smiley, not where they put it in Smiley (disambiguation). Of course, whatever they meant, it needs verification. --Jerzy•t 00:30, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Muhammed
Is this really necessary? http://hodja.wordpress.com/2006/02/22/muhammed-smiley/

Disputed origins
Read this BBC article - it says many people claim to have created / propagated / designed the smiley. Is there any concrete evidence for the statements made in the article? - Bnitin 02:23, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The first smiley face I ever saw was at a free rock concert in Laguna Beach, California, c. 1969 or 1970. The Brotherhood of Eternal Love distributed very large suckers made of Orange Sunshine LSD.  These had smiley faces engraved on them.  Some time later I noticed the more familiar version, which for some reason changed the color from orange to yellow.Frederick Dolan (talk) 18:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * People can argue about the origin of the smiley face all they want, but the fact remains that the oldest known usage of the smiley face, as per this article, is 1963. That pretty much limits its origin to either Harvey Ball or the cartoon series "The Funny Company", which also first aired in 1963.  The caps the kids wore in that series featured a smiley face on the front. grifterlake (talk) 00:02, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I would think that people have been using smiley faces for hundreds of years. It's a pretty obvious thing to draw. ☺ (Huey45 (talk) 05:49, 2 May 2010 (UTC))

The Wingdings smiley
Can the Wingdings smiley be included? It is the letter J in Wingdings font.

inhunt.com
Someone made a request at the Abuse reports page to deal with the spamming by inhunt.com, although it was in poor and incorrect form. I took a look at the spamming that has taken place here and on the Emoticon article, and decided to make a proper abuse report, seen here. In my little investigation, I saw that this spamming was taking place from multiple IPs, which were registered to many places. Also, some of these IPs appeared to be making worthy contributions. I don't really have a clue if this is a bot or not, or what it exactly is doing to achieve this high rate of spamming. This is because I lack any advanced knowledge in the area of computers or internet. So if someone a little more knowledgable could take a look at this, and add a better sypnosis to my abuse report, that would be greatly appreciated by all. --Reaper X 19:04, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, DavidHOzAu suggested that we get our good bot friend Tawkerbot2 involved, and ask to have inhunt.com added to it's spam blacklist. I did that, and Tawker did so. So hopefully they are gone for good! --Reaper X 02:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Supposed Australian Usage of Word
"Smiley is another name for curb stomping. In Australia, people commonly refer to it as a smiley due to the scars that are left after the act has occurred"

People commonly refer to it as a smiley? I am Australian, and I have never heard of this being used in this context. The only use of the word "smiley" is the same as everywhere else - the smiley face. Also this statement makes it sound as if curb stomping is a popular practice, as it supposedly has its own slang terminology - which it certainly is not - here or anywhere else. 203.51.151.156 13:33, 28 June 2006 (UTC)Nathan
 * I have never heard of curb stomping before I read it in this article. A smiley is always ;-) to everyone I know who uses the term.  My opinion is to get rid of the reference to curb stomping; it is not a common usage and it is likely patent nonsense. --DavidHOzAu 05:00, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Smiley :-) article link
Someone found this article to be spam: Extensive Smiley :-) article I must say that I was really surprised to see someone think that way, I have worked my a** off to prepare article for the net.

Please review the link. Thanks, Borislav Dopudja 02:44, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Removing it wasn't necessarily an indication that it was a poorly written article, just that it is not appropriate for inclusion in this encyclopedia. Wikipedia is not a repository of links. --MichaelZimmer (talk) 11:49, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Smileys using computer keys
Should we limit these to those that appear to be smiling?Pendragon39 17:10, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

background of smilies
do we really need this? 206.248.139.177 07:22, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking the same, and went to read the talk-page to see if someone had discussed it. I don't think it adds anything to the article, and since I'm evidently not the only one, I have removed it. Alatius 19:51, 12 August 2007 (UTC) You should make cooler smiley faces on the computer other than :) this one! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.253.43.146 (talk) 20:38, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Origins
The Straight Dope article seems pretty authoritative. It has no mention of Franklin Loufrani. It also places the Spain brothers' creation at 1970, which would predate the current mention of Franklin Loufrani. The Franklin Loufrani paragraph is also unsourced. If no one can provide any further sourcing, I move that we delete this paragraph, which may well be self-serving advertising. Notmyrealname 20:54, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Since no source seems to be available, I'm deleting the following passages:

"However, Franklin Loufrani of London-based company SmileyWorld says he came up with the image in 1971 for a newspaper promotion in which he displayed his icon to highlight good news. He then started developing products using this logo as a brand. The logo and the name are trademarked by Franklin Loufrani across 100 countries for most classes of goods and services. His master licensee Smileyworld is developing products with licensed partners in industries such as clothing, accessories, home textiles, food and confectionery, stationery, toys, gift items, housewares, publishing and fragrances. In 1997, his son Nicolas Loufrani started developing hundreds of variations of the Smiley logo with many different moods and categories such as weather, occupations, countries, animals, objects and so forth. He also developed a character based version with a body, arms and legs. They were the first non-text based emoticons available to use on the web."

"In 2005 Nicolas and Franklin Loufrani created the Smiley World association, a charity part of the SOS group and wholly financed by sales of Smiley products developed by Smileyworld Ltd and Smiley industries Ltd." Notmyrealname 16:54, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Left vs Right handed ASCII smileys
The article said "The two original text smileys, (-: to indicate a joke and )-: to mark things that are not a joke", and also "The reverse, or right-handed, smileys, :) have also gained popularity for being a way to avoid having text smileys converted to graphical representations".

According to http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm the original was in fact right-handed. Also, as far as I know, most programs will convert the right-handed but not left-handed versions. I've changed tho article to reflect this. ddickison 15:01, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I have written about my motivations for using reverse smileys (which I have done for years) at http://www.asheesh.org/note/reverse%20smileys.html, in case that helps justify that section of the article. 21:11, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

european smiley
this is off the wall, but do europeans tend to draw smiley's with a nose, as opposed to americans? for instance :-) vs. :)
 * I don't think that's just Europeans. I'm American and I've never EVER made a smiley like this -- :) RACiEPLeave a message! 23:09, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * You have now :-) 109.155.108.202 (talk) 21:28, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

:-( Despair, Inc's Frownies™
Hey, you guys are using a trademark without previous consent... OK, just kidding. Anyway, it's funny, but it's actually true. I think the "Frowny(tm)" episode deserves a section in this article. (http://www.beachbrowser.com/Archives/eVoid/Febuary-2001/Trademark-Frownie-Emoticon.htm) Any vote against? Eumedemito (talk) 04:39, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Inarticulateness re Nirvana; whole Music section
_ _ This entry has no clear meaning; perhaps it is encyclopedic when restated & de-PoV'd by someone who knows something about Nirvana: For starters, presumably it could better begin (Note that a band can be "they" when its members all act individually on behalf of the band, as in "they played 'Old Zip Coon'", but releasing a record they played on, or adopting a finshed graphic that some of them initially conceived, is not such a situation: the band, whether incorporated or legally established as a partnership or not, does (not do) things (thru the agency of suits at the label or the artist who renders the graphic and a band member who oversees that artist), beyond or without individual acts by the members.) It also probably should not go after an older one, as its contributor placed it, but immediately before it. _ _ The whole section suffers, as these sections tend to, from At the least, this discussion of the (possibly copyright or trademark protected) material sounds like exactly the sort of thing that the "discussion" provision in Fair use was intended to promote: the wording conveys almost nothing about the differences, in the absence of the images. So add suitably small images. Chronological ordering is also usually helpful (but in practice requires in the long term the addition of dates of introduction). --Jerzy•t 05:14, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The band Nirvana used there own version of the smiley properly reflecting the easy going 80's smiley, and showing that things have changed.
 * The band Nirvana used a smiley variation of its own devising ....
 * The band Blink-182 also used an altered smiley face with arrows (similar to Nirvana's) for the cover of their self-titled album in 2003.
 * 1) growing mainly by tacking on the only entry that interests the contributor, at either the top or bottom,
 * 2) a jarring variation in style, and
 * 3) lack of encyclopedic info.

Who the h*ll is Ball ?
Topic starts off with Ball... Who is he? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Preroll (talk • contribs) 15:17, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Read the article! It says right there.  --RACiEP (talk) 03:38, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Appearances of smiley
It looks like more than half of the article is devoted to where smileys appear or have appeared. This is out of control and must be pared down. Any thought before I remove most of it?Asher196 (talk) 02:36, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

"Fictional Use"?
Is this section really necessary? Seems more like trivia for the movie itself... 68.54.90.179 (talk) 22:02, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Agree, and the limite between emoticon article and this one should be clearer. Simply said: all serious stuff should be here, the emoticon article is more to explain styles, and the List of emoticons to list...?


 * Here are some sources mentioned here and there on Wikipedia, they seem good to me:


 * "Emoticons, she added, should be reserved for use by “naïve tweens on AOL Instant Messenger finding out after-school soccer practice is canceled.” source:(-: Just Between You and Me ;-) link I found reading the Japanese smiley article.
 * "Bernard Spain says he's heard Sunkist oranges used smileys in a 1930s ad campaign, and we find smileys in Munro Leaf's 1936 kid's book Manners Can Be Fun. But the Leaf smileys are crude black-and-white stick drawings bearing little resemblance to the finished work of art cranked out by Harvey Ball... " Who invented the smiley face? from ddickison's comment.
 * there's also the feather reading links and scientific compartmental studies from the emoticon article talk page... if anyone sets to clean things up. - &#65293; Cy21(talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 22:54, 10 March 2010 (UTC).

Southland Tales?
No body mentioned Pilot Abilene's use of a disfigured smiley as his insignia? (JoeLoeb (talk) 23:19, 11 June 2009 (UTC))

Article needs Clean and Protection!
If you look at the history it's just vandalisme, revert, vadalisme, revert... We need to get this cleaned up and protected. Any good English writers here? &#65293; Cy21(talk) 22:59, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, I am not the person for the job, but if that happens I would like to see it nominated afterward for good article status. Arlo Barnes (talk) 11:05, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

''In 1963 Samantha Nicole Turner, an American commercial artist, was employed by an advertising company to create a happy face to be used on buttons. His rendition, with bright yellow background, dark oval eyes, and creases at the sides of the mouth, was to become the most iconic version.[4][5]''

''In 1967, Ball's design was used in an advertising campaign for Seattle-based University Federal Savings & Loan. This was later used when the man behind this campaign, David Stern, ran for Seattle Mayor in 1993.[5]''

As quoted, either Samantha has become a masculine name or the pronoun His in the second sentence is wrong. The opening of the second paragraph refers to the design as Ball's design, yet there is no prior mention of Ball in the text of the article (although the picture captions do refer to Harvey Ball). Therefore I believe the name Samantha Nicole Turner must be wrong and should be Harvey Ball. I am going to rewrite the paragraph beginning "In 1963..." and I think the next paragraph should be expanded as well. Anewcharliega (talk) 00:55, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

What I know
All I know about the subject is that you can do some crazy things on your keyboard that some people who may not know about. like this @:-) is a guy wearing a turban. Who knew how to do that? Twizzlergirl (talk) 01:07, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

3-eyed smiley
What is the source of the infamous three-eye smiley? A comic book? or what? --16:11, 23 June 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mizanthrop (talk • contribs)
 * it appears in the film "evolution", which i think is the origin

trademark
i don't understand ... if the original is public domain, how did Franklin Loufrani trademark it? anyone? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.175.57.184 (talk) 04:15, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Name
It was actually most often called a "Happy face" in the 1970s; not sure the term "smiley" came into use until after the rise of computer emoticons... AnonMoos (talk) 12:53, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * We knew the Smiley (as such) long before the spread of emoticons. -- megA (talk) 11:16, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Hippies
We should talk about its popularization at the hands of hippies. --173.3.154.230 (talk) 23:08, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Ken Nordine's Cover for his 1957 jazz/jive talk album

Spikeysnack (talk) 03:13, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Harvey R. Ball as creator, copyright issues
So I just searched "copyright smiley" (without quotes) in google books. I gave up on page 25. The only relevant sources were the ones I list here. All of them say that Ball was the creator or that he is credited as the creator. A few of them talked about copyright; they said that a) Ball forgot to copyright the smiley face or b) the smiley face is not copyrighted or c) it is in the public domain. I found no sources that give a different creator, and no sources that say that the smiley face is copyrighted.










 * (link in NY Times website)





Newspaper articles do say that there is a dispute about the origin, like this BBC article and Guardian article says that a kid's program used "a crude smiley" but says that it was Ball who forgot to copyright it, the New York Times simply credits Ball in his obituary.

--Enric Naval (talk) 21:09, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Flower-shaped smileys ?
I have some smileys from the late 60's which are not circular on the outside but a sort of blobby flower-like outline. Are these smileys or something else ?Eregli bob (talk) 16:11, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

the ACTUAL iconic smilies
These pieces of clipart ain't them. Here's Ball and his; here is the CUR one; the Wal-Mart battle probably deserves one of theirs. All have much more pleasing dimensions that what we're seeing now.

The Straight Dope article linked above also points out that there are known earlier smilies from the '30s we're not discussing and "Have a Happy Day" precedes the '70s by a decade. — Llywelyn II   11:05, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Very reliable source I ought to share.
I found a very reliable source that is very relevant to this article. It is from the Smithsonian website.

Who Really Invented the Smiley Face? --Mr. Guye (talk) 23:36, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Seems to me that no discussion about the "Smiley Face" and the history thereof is complete without an honorable mention to Forrest Gump. Rghollenbeck (talk) 17:42, 4 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I totally agree, Rghollenbeck, that Forrest Gump deserves mention. Perhaps you should create a ==Popular culture== section on the page in which you could provide a brief description of the Forrest Gump scene.  allixpeeke (talk) 07:26, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

The link for reference 3 is broken. Also, what about including the smileys that have the triangle shaped eyes? For example: "^_^" Most people would agree that these convey even happier emotions than the typical circular eyes. There also is a typo here: "This suggestions took a symbol used predominantly marketing and it..." It should be "used predominantly in" Ayebeesung (talk) 14:28, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
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New image for infobox


Hi, I'm coming here to explain my change in a form longer than an edit summary. For some reason, I have never liked the "Smiley" in this article. I can remember not liking it before I even knew how to edit Wikipedia. To me, it just looks really ugly. I understand that this is a subjective decision, but there are good reasons to use the new smiley besides. The new smiley is more true in appearance to its 1970's history, and due to its smaller, closer together eyes and wider smile it appears much kinder. If you decide to revert my change, I hope you can find the time to reply to this thread. Thank you Psiĥedelisto (talk) 04:41, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Future editors may be interested in the consensus reached as it relates to this topic here: User_talk:Psiĥedelisto Psiĥedelisto (talk) 02:11, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Smileys, Emojis, Emoticons
It seems that there is a lot of confusion about Smileys vs. Emojis vs Emoticons, and I really think this line doesn't make sense:

"As the digital age evolved the need for smileys that were easily understood across all cultures gave birth to the emoji."

It references an article that requires WSJ subscription, so I didn't read it, but smileys existed before they were used inside texts, and emojis are inside texts - and smileys are generally understood across all cultures. I am considering to delete this sentence, because I consider it meaningless and misleading. Any objections? Dybdahl (talk) 11:34, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Update: I will delete it now. Dybdahl (talk) 07:00, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

CHICKEN AND CHIPS
Chicken and chips is a British dish. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.64.225.176 (talk) 10:47, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Muslim Version
You may want to include a muslim version aswell: *) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:FE0:C700:2:A1D4:C8B2:A471:90DB (talk) 04:04, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Ermm....
When you say 'The Watchmen comic series logo' in a caption there are some other pictures that could be used. Like the actual comic book cover. -Thanks Ooh Saad (talk) 13:31, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Going to try to get rid of it. This content belongs on the Watchment wiki page, not here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.130.46.152 (talk) 15:45, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Internet chat
> "In November 2001, and later, smiley emojis inside the actual chat text was adopted by several chat systems, including Yahoo Messenger."

I could be mistaken, but I believe AIM and Windows Messenger both implemented emojis prior to November 2001.  —  C M B J   01:54, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Pre-1960 usage of smiley and face
The article referencing ("The Man Who Owns the Smiley Face". Vice. 10 August 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2018.) states "Despite smiley ideographs dating back to the 1950s, the term smiley wasn't linked to the smiling yellow face until the 1970s" IMHO the word smiley was linked to ideographs before the 1970s

Merriam-Webster list the "First Known Use of smiley Adjective 1848 " https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smiley

On March 18 1922 the Gregory Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio ran an ad for smiley face balloons in The Billboard

The Erie Railroad had a good ambassador of goodwill name SMILEY it not  THE "the smiling yellow face" however the is a smiling face (see http://elmags.railfan.net/ERIE_Dec1948.pdf and  http://cs.trains.com/ctr/f/3/p/256495/2870668.aspx)

In the 1950s the MA-3 rocket launcher [mode III "Smiley"] manufacture by Century Industries of San Pedro, CA [contract AF33 (600) 28547] it had a "painted smiling face" (https://archive.org/details/sim_united-states-congress-hearings-prints-and-reports_may-02-1956-february-08-11-12-march-26-29-/page/627/mode/2up?q=smiling+  https://www.google.com/books/edition/Intermediate_Report_of_the_Committee_on/eojRAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Smiley%20%E2%80%9D )

In Helping Johnny Remember(1956) by Portafilms two cartoon faces are drawn on the  blackboard: "Smiley" and "Sulky." https://archive.org/details/HelpingJ1956

Do-It-Yourself, Carnival by Jane McHenry in Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sep 7, 1957 states  "...Tape a paper plate to the mop head for a face, arranging string strands on each side for the hair. Draw a big smiley face on plate!...." Jane McHenry assumes kids knew how to draw a "smiley face" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-64qAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_GQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3995,1407077&dq=smiley-face&hl=en

Galloping Ghosts! by Bill Ross Anniston Star ,Oct 26, 1958 Page 50   states "Collect six empty pop bottles and six cone-shaped paper cups. With crayons draw smiley faces on three of the cups and scary ones on the others" Bill Ross assumes kids knew how to draw a "smiley face"  https://newspaperarchive.com/anniston-star-oct-26-1958-p-50/

IMHO "Despite smiley ideographs dating back to the 1950s, the term smiley wasn't linked to the smiling yellow face until the 1970s" should be edit out Bayoustarwatch (talk) 20:52, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

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