Talk:What Would Brian Boitano Do?

Votes for Deletion

 * What Would Brian Boitano Do? - Anthony irrelevance. --Wik 17:52, Feb 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * Either keep it, or write articles on all the songs and merge them into one page. --Shadow Bunny 17:56, 7 Sep 2006
 * Keep. Somewhat well-known and of marginal significance, but enough to keep.  --Daniel C. Boyer 18:19, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete this but put the info back in WWJD where it was originally. The song doesn't deserve its own article, but then this article wouldn't have been created if someone (bet you can't guess who) hadn't been reverting the WWJD article.  Isomorphic 18:43, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Agree with Daniel, plus this is a stub which can be improved. Anthony DiPierro 18:50, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * My vote was deleted. Please don't delete votes that aren't yours. RadicalBender 20:15, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC) Old vote:
 * Merge with the Music heading of South Park. RadicalBender 18:55, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose [i.e., Keep], until some reason is given for its deletion. Dandrake 19:46, Feb 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Wik only listed it here because Anthony created it, and Wik is on a war against Anthony. RickK 19:51, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * But then we should probably question why Anthony created it...the content should probably be moved to the South Park movie article, and then WWBBD redirected there. Adam Bishop 20:07, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete and merge with South Park music section - it won't expand since it only exists in the content of that one movie. - Texture 22:09, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * KEEP. The song is real. A user created it. The content does not break any violations. Many wikipedia articles are about songs: I Drove All Night, Good King Wenceslas, Puff the Magic Dragon to name but a few. Kingturtle 00:08, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. As mentioned, songs are valid article subjects. ShaneKing 00:43, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, songs can be encyclopedic. Meelar 04:57, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep it. It exists, mildly famous, good enough for me. -- Jake 06:52, 2004 Feb 17 (UTC)
 * Content is worth keeping, but no need to have a separate page for it. Merge it into the South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut page, and then either redir or delete. In other words, agree with Adam Bishop . Andre Engels 16:16, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge somewhere and keep as redirect - I must admit I didn't know who Boitano was or what it was parodying, so the content's definitely there, but not a whole article's worth. - IMSoP 20:20, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. I've seen it used in contexts outside of the South Park movie. Abigail 12:30, Feb 19, 2004 (UTC)


 * merge it with the Southpark movie article (which says there are 6 songs including Blame Canada but doesn't give any details on any of them...) I don't think there's enough to say about any of the songs to merit articles of their own KJ 03:13, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

question by anon
moving anon question from article page - cohesion [[User_talk:Cohesion|☎]] 08:54, Oct 17, 2004 (UTC)

"Question: Does anyone know why the creators of South Park decided to use Brian Boitano as the superhero role model?"

For the same reason that Scuttlebug had Patrick Duffy for a leg. It's a non sequitor.

Does he really use it in his own performances?
Citation for this please? --Grouse 6 July 2005 13:56 (UTC)


 * This isn't a referenceable citation, but I was watching the competition on TV when it happened, so I can confirm it's real. Someone should find the particular event and cite properly, though.  Georgewilliamherbert 22:11, 29 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I added the one I know about (the finale, which was a group number). He may have done it more than once. Awartha 22:10, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Discrepancy
Someone should note that their is a discrepancy in the song/movie: In the movie, Cartman curses even though he has a v-chip installed, which should shock him everytime he says a curse word. Pgiii 02:37, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, Cartman doesn't say any of the lines with curse words in them, just Stan and Kyle. --MutantMonkey (talk | work) 02:32, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

What is the question?
In April 2003, Boitano answered the question in an interview.
 * "What would you do?" as is evidenced by the link given. :p --Sonic Mew 12:41, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Copyright violation?
Is the typing out of all the lyrics of the song a copyright violation? It seems to have been done by an anonymous user who, perhaps, does not know about copyright rules here. It might not be a violation but I thought I should bring it up. --Hydraton31 21:53, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

I got blasted for adding lyrics to this site, and the lyrics were deleted. If that happened to me, then that's what this guy should get too. It's only fair. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.40.142.239 (talk • contribs) 04:48, 10 August 2006

I added the lyrics a while ago, but they got deleted. Posting song lyrics online is not a copyright violation in America (my father, who's been a laywer for 20 years, said so) but it might violate laws in other countries. At any rate I think they should be put back. --Shadow Bunny 03:04, 20 August 2006


 * Posting the full lyrics of a song is unlikely to qualify as fair use, to my knowledge. If your father has any specific evidence to the contrary, of course, that may be of interest. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 03:57, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * All he said was that it qualifies as fair use. And why wouldn't it be? --Shadow Bunny01:02, 8 September 2006
 * Because it isn't really useful for criticism, research, or other fair-use purposes mentioned in the preamble to 17 USC § 107. At least not in my opinion.  I suppose it's transformative, however, in that the lyrics are being listed to inform people about the song rather than to entertain them, and it doesn't supersede the existing work's market to any appreciable degree; that covers the two more important factors.  The original work is of course highly creative, as such things go, and the entire song is copied, so the other two are against it. So yes, it's possibly fair use, although possibly not.  It's certainly irrelevant pragmatically whether it is, but even if it is, we avoid fair use where unnecessary.  I suspect that this is a case that the Wikimedia Foundation would view as "unnecessary", vis-a-vis making an encyclopedia.  Do most encyclopedias have the lyrics for songs of this length (say, "The Star-Spangled Banner" or "The Battle Hymn of the Republic")? By the way, please sign your posts on talk pages with ~ .  It makes things easier to follow, thanks. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 22:17, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Suggestion
A lot of minor south park characters have sections oor minisections in the minor characters thing, why not put a Brian Boitano(South Park) section where this and his other appearances are mentioned/detailed. iceberg1031/66.176.172.119 06:55, 25 June 2007 (UTC)