Talk:Zombie walk

This page should NOT be moved
This page should NOT be moved to a "Flash Mob" page as it has nothing to do with advancing personal agendas political or otherwise.

A zombie walk also has no other purpose other than gathering in public for the sole reason of surrounding oneself with other similar minded people.

The fact that flash mobs target specific areas for a specific reasons also goes against the purpose of what a zombie walk is; which is to simply walk around dressed up zombies.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Downtownj (talk • contribs) 7 June 2006

What's the point?
And what is the "point" of these demonstrations? 71.199.196.105 03:03, 8 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Generally, just to have fun. At least that's my impression. —GrantNeufeld 17:10, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I fail to see why Zombie Walk cannot be used as a proper noun.


 * "The common meaning of the word or words constituting a proper noun may be unrelated to the object to which the proper noun refers. For example, someone might be named "Tiger Smith" despite being neither a tiger nor a smith."


 * A "Zombie Walk" is a noun that assumes the rights of a proper noun. There are countless other events and entities that use their titles in this way (Marathon of Hope). If you intend on changing the noun usage of this page then please provide additional reasoning.


 * Please take note that the title for this page is also capitalized; hence your lowercase fever is only adding to inconsistentcy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Downtownj (talk • contribs) 21:29, 10 August 2006

SkyBrain
Downtownj: Please stop changing the reference to the SkyTrain to "SkyBrain". The SkyBrain does not exist and was just a fun nickname during the event. It is not encyclopedic to call it SkyBrain in the article. Thanks. —GrantNeufeld 17:12, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

problems with article
The news clip on Note #3 (CBC footage of the car incident) does not support the claims made about "severe damage to the car" and multiple insurance claims. Please find a better source or remove that assertion. -- nae'blis 15:45, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Also, I don't believe it appropriate to use Wikipedia to advertise future events unless you can show that they are already receiving media coverage that can be cited. Otherwise it's just promotional material. -- nae'blis 15:46, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism?
Is this correct- Attention Whores can include anyone from executive management to the homeless[citation needed] which makes for an interesting social setting.

During the event attention whores are encouraged to remain in character?

It looks like vandalism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TK1 (talk • contribs) 14:56, 24 October 2006
 * You spotted it and got it yourself. Good job. -- nae'blis 17:24, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

List creep
I've boldly headshot the creeping list of cities that have held zombie walks - it's an inevitably incomplete and patchy list, and virtually all of the examples link to personal sites rather than press coverage; Wikipedia is not a link directory.

It's good to map the history of the zombie-walk movement to some extent, and to pick out particularly notable walks, but as an event they seem pretty common these days. A reliable source saying something like "many Western cities hold a zombie walk at least once per year" would be more useful than a sprawlingly unreadable list. --McGeddon 10:50, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

... I've also cleared out all the personal sites and galleries from the external links. If there's a single site we can link to that links on to all of these sorts of things, that'd be much more appropriate. --McGeddon 10:57, 3 July 2007 (UTC)


 * This list has come back without any discussion but lots of references are attached. Any thoughts? --Midnightdreary 02:25, 20 August 2007 (UTC)


 * All of the references are fan sites, which fail WP:RS. So far as I can see, the two zombie-walk sites in the External Links section are linking indirectly to many zombie walks - WP:EL tells us that it's better to link to a single, general directory site than to attempt to be that directory ourselves.
 * I think zombie walks are sufficiently common now that it would be much more useful to try to summarise just how common they are - something like "Zombie walks are now held at least once a year in many Western cities, often at Halloween or linked with the publicity for a zombie film or book, but also organised as spontaneous flash mobs", but we'd need sources.
 * As it stands, the current list of cities is unreadable - we should be summarising it for the benefit of readers, not forcing them to comb carefully through an arbitrarily-expanded list of cities to establish their own conclusions. --McGeddon 09:19, 20 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree. Probably if we could just find a source that says what you did, we can leave it at that. They definitely have become a tad bit more common so a list of cities will just get tedious and boring. --Midnightdreary 19:42, 21 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Here's a very simple alternative to the current paragraph in the article:
 * Zombie walks have become relatively common in large cities, especially in North America, often becoming annual traditions, though some are also spontaneous "flash mob" style.
 * ---Midnightdreary 19:50, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Looks good. I've put it in place. --McGeddon 20:07, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

chefkam
Actually zombie walks most of the time raise food for local food banks in their area by also having local benefit concerts and canned food drives in an attempt to have a unique way to curb local hunger by poverty stricken areas. Some even find ways to help disaster events like flooding and tornado relief. So these "Walks" can serve a political purpose! 76.240.199.31 (talk) 21:36, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

World Record
Ok we have had some dispute recently in edits about what is the largest zombie walk to date. Can we confirm that the Michigan one is the largest to avoid possible disputes? Zombie Hunter Smurf (talk) 17:36, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm a bit confused, too! Although I have no reference for this, the Nottingham walk on the 31/10/08 was a world record because there was a certififcate which I saw. This took place after the one on the 30th. I'll try and find something to prove this as I think we took a photo of us recieving the certificate. Olliffe  Φ  Obscurity  15:09, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * So far, only Pittsburgh, PA has received recognition from the Guinness people, yes? No? Someone want to verify? World Zombie Day is coming up 11 Oct 2009 and there will surely be a number of attempts the world over. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.131.238.118 (talk) 01:52, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Melbourne Zombie walk
I think one happened in Melbourne just recently, maybe 2 days ago. I noticed a bunch of people with makeup that made them look as if they were dead/injured, should it be included here?115.131.203.224 (talk) 08:14, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Unless it broke a world record or was otherwise exceptional, no. These events are so common now that we don't gain anything by maintaining an exhaustive list; this was discussed a couple of years ago in the "List creep" section above (when the article had an unreadably long paragraph of "Since 2003, zombie walks have taken place in Toronto, London, New York, Vancouver, Adelaide... [list of a hundred cities]"). --McGeddon (talk) 08:28, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

potential images, resources
From http://mediagallery.usatoday.com/Protests+against+Wall+Street/G2792 This Zombie Walk was discussed on NPR too. 99.119.128.87 (talk) 00:13, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
 * By Emmanuel Dunand, AFP/Getty Images October 3, 2011; 29 of 44: Occupy Wall Street protesters stage a march dressed as corporate zombies during a protest in New York. They were demonstrating against corporate greed.
 * By John Minchillo, AP October 3, 2011; 30 of 44: Protesters from Occupy Wall Street, dressed as corporate zombies, march through the financial district in New York. The Occupy Wall Street protests started on Sept. 17 with a few dozen demonstrators who tried to pitch tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange.


 * We would need a source that it's relevant to the sort of "Zombie walk" discussed in the rest of the article. (We also needed a source that it actually existed, but you've now provided one.)  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 01:37, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Detroit resource for World Zombie Day
Metro Detroit to host events marking World Zombie Day Oct. 8, 2011 by Eric D. Lawrence for the Detroit Free Press. 99.190.87.183 (talk) 05:54, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

resource on FoxNews

 * World Zombie Day to Bring Out the Living Dead by Mary Mueller, published October 02, 2011 on FoxNews.com 97.87.29.188 (talk) 20:28, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

resource?
http://www.worldzombieday.org/ 97.87.29.188 (talk) 20:31, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Why was this removed?
99.181.157.189 (talk) 06:33, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Attention "Occupiers"
Get your politics out of this. --Niemti (talk) 07:42, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Raising awareness for world hunger
Under "Format" that fact is mentioned twice, citing different sources. I think that both sentences should be merged.

World record list
Does this article really need two full pages of "the world record was this, then another city beat it the next year and it was this, then another city tried to beat it and failed, then there was a bigger unofficial one, and then..."? It seems like this could just be a single paragraph in "History", covering the largest official walk, and a couple of the larger unofficial estimates. --McGeddon (talk) 15:25, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

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