Wikipedia talk:MOBY


 * &mdash; Anthøny 21:27, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Comment
I think the page should be expanded to indicate that it might be particularly objectionable to have WP:DICK cited at you if you happen to be a female. I'm not female myself, but just saying. John Carter 18:41, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Nice thought... if the article survives MfD I'll certainly include it. --Dweller 22:47, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Well seeing as how you did not include it, I took the liberty of doing it myself. You can expand upon it as you wish; it's your essay.--WaltCip 03:15, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Name?
A like the shortcut, but this should be moved to a better Name then Wikipedia:MOBY, it is not a descriptive title. — xaosflux  Talk  14:04, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * The page itself was originally at WP:MOBY (yes, the whole page). The current location is the page creator (Dweller)'s requested not-in-article-space title. Having said that, as the person who originally moved it out of article space, I'm not personally attached to the title; I'd support any title that's uncontroversial, reflects the intent of the essay, and obviously relates to the shortcut. — Gavia immer (talk) 14:29, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Just decapitalise it - Moby seems fine. WaltonOne 09:10, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

This is Poisoning the whale, isn't it? We don't seem to have a WP:WELL (or indeed WP:WHALE). -- !! ?? 17:49, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

No thanks - it was (is) deliberately capitalised, to counterpoint the shouty (let's add that to its list of sins) WP:DICK. And as the counterpoint redirected shortcut is WP:MOBY this should be too. --Dweller 20:19, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

too funny
See? Wikipedia does have a sense of humor. Albeit a bit of a quirky one... Barista Girl (talk) 02:25, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Quirky is the right word - see User:Dweller/quirky --Dweller (talk) 08:54, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Photo
Whatever else one may think of this essay and the essays to which it responds, I think the photo of Moby (the real-life musician) should be removed from this page. I do get the pun. This essay is responding to the one about calling people a "dick", so it's called "Moby." Ha ha. Herman Melville is not around to object. But then we take the pun (which wasn't very good in the first place) one step further and drag Moby (apparently Melville's multiple-great-nephew, so I guess he somewhat brings the pun upon himself by his choice of stage name) into it. Not only that, the caption quotes Moby as saying something I'm pretty certain he didn't say, which I think almost everybody will "get" as a joke, but it still doesn't seem right. I'm not sure whether WP:BLP literally applies here, but I think the spirit of the policy suggests that we should not involve living people in intra-Wikipedia squabbles (which is what this essay is part of) to the point of having their face illustrate a page like this. At first I had written this as a suggestion that a "humor" tag should be placed on this essay because of the photo caption, but then I decided the photo should not be here at all. Any objections to removing it? (And maybe even then, the essay should have the "humor" tag.) Neutron (talk) 19:08, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Happy you removed the photo and agree with you about BLP implications. I guess I was less sensitive to BLP when I wrote this. Ambivalent about the adding of the humor tag. Totally reject the assertion that the pun wasn't very good in the first place :-) --Dweller (talk) 13:50, 19 October 2011 (UTC)