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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the "
Did you know?" column on
October 9, 2006. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that the
Curse of the Colonel refers to a reputed
curse placed on the
Kansai-based
Hanshin Tigers
baseball team by deceased
KFC founder and
mascot,
Col. Harland Sanders? | |||||||||||||
Current status: Good article |
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This article has been sprinkled quite liberally with "citation needed" tags. However, as mentioned in the references, the majority of the information in the article comes from the Osaka Info Guide, and English-language tourist guide to Osaka that is given out in the American Embassy, Tourist Information centers, English-language book stores, and pretty much everywhere else. It had an extensive article on Dotonbori, which included the information on the Curse of the Colonel.
Is there some reason why this reference isn't good enough? If not, why, and what further citations are needed? Thanks! MightyAtom 23:54, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
The infoboxes for people associated with the curse are unnecessary. You might possibly include pictures but the whole box really only goes on the biography page for the individual. Eluchil404 05:29, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
This article will be put on hold (for 7 days) until these minor adjustments can be made :
Additional comments :
Lincher 17:30, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
OK, I think I have addressed all of the concerns above! MightyAtom 04:18, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Ah, that's great! Thanks! I will try and study up on how to do that on my own. MightyAtom 04:42, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
The article now meets the requirements and is of GA status. Lincher 19:34, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Looked through the article and I was just curious as to what the statue was made out of. Plaster? Plastic? Concrete? Stone? Wood? Perakhantu 18:20, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Weirdly, a random chain of web links led me to this article about two weeks after reading Haruki Murakami's "Kafka on the Shore" (in English translation), a book where there's a fairly substantial episode involving some sort of metaphysical entity that chooses to present itself in the form of Colonel Sanders. While reading, it pretty much washed over me as just another odd detail, but now that I know about the Curse of the Colonel, it has more resonance, especially given other baseball references in the book -- like how the guy the "Colonel" is dealing with is constantly identified with the Chunichi Dragons. And how the main characters are all drawn from central Japan down through Kansai and then across a big bridge (to Takamatsu). Anyway, I'm completely incompetent to write about Japanese culture, so don't ask me to do it, but I wonder if it might be an interesting section to add: something about how the Curse has been referred to or used as a plot element or an illustration in art or pop culture.
-- Anonymous non-wiki-participant
0608 4 Jan 2007 (UTC)
I am tempted to revert the recent changes made to this article, but I wanted to discuss it first. The previous version had Good_Article status, meaning that all of the material, including parts that have been removed, had undergone a review and where found to be relevant and of good quality. Also, the recent inclusion of a trivia section is something disencouraged by wikipedia policy. Any thoughts or discussions before I revert? MightyAtom 04:28, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Sorry I'm late, but user is right. Changes were much clearer. And 2002 has nothing to do with curse. -- 69.183.85.197 ( talk) 20:19, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
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Curse of the Colonel has been listed as one of the Sports and recreation good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. | |||||||||||||
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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the "
Did you know?" column on
October 9, 2006. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that the
Curse of the Colonel refers to a reputed
curse placed on the
Kansai-based
Hanshin Tigers
baseball team by deceased
KFC founder and
mascot,
Col. Harland Sanders? | |||||||||||||
Current status: Good article |
This article has been
mentioned by a media organization:
|
This article has been sprinkled quite liberally with "citation needed" tags. However, as mentioned in the references, the majority of the information in the article comes from the Osaka Info Guide, and English-language tourist guide to Osaka that is given out in the American Embassy, Tourist Information centers, English-language book stores, and pretty much everywhere else. It had an extensive article on Dotonbori, which included the information on the Curse of the Colonel.
Is there some reason why this reference isn't good enough? If not, why, and what further citations are needed? Thanks! MightyAtom 23:54, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
The infoboxes for people associated with the curse are unnecessary. You might possibly include pictures but the whole box really only goes on the biography page for the individual. Eluchil404 05:29, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
This article will be put on hold (for 7 days) until these minor adjustments can be made :
Additional comments :
Lincher 17:30, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
OK, I think I have addressed all of the concerns above! MightyAtom 04:18, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Ah, that's great! Thanks! I will try and study up on how to do that on my own. MightyAtom 04:42, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
The article now meets the requirements and is of GA status. Lincher 19:34, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Looked through the article and I was just curious as to what the statue was made out of. Plaster? Plastic? Concrete? Stone? Wood? Perakhantu 18:20, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Weirdly, a random chain of web links led me to this article about two weeks after reading Haruki Murakami's "Kafka on the Shore" (in English translation), a book where there's a fairly substantial episode involving some sort of metaphysical entity that chooses to present itself in the form of Colonel Sanders. While reading, it pretty much washed over me as just another odd detail, but now that I know about the Curse of the Colonel, it has more resonance, especially given other baseball references in the book -- like how the guy the "Colonel" is dealing with is constantly identified with the Chunichi Dragons. And how the main characters are all drawn from central Japan down through Kansai and then across a big bridge (to Takamatsu). Anyway, I'm completely incompetent to write about Japanese culture, so don't ask me to do it, but I wonder if it might be an interesting section to add: something about how the Curse has been referred to or used as a plot element or an illustration in art or pop culture.
-- Anonymous non-wiki-participant
0608 4 Jan 2007 (UTC)
I am tempted to revert the recent changes made to this article, but I wanted to discuss it first. The previous version had Good_Article status, meaning that all of the material, including parts that have been removed, had undergone a review and where found to be relevant and of good quality. Also, the recent inclusion of a trivia section is something disencouraged by wikipedia policy. Any thoughts or discussions before I revert? MightyAtom 04:28, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Sorry I'm late, but user is right. Changes were much clearer. And 2002 has nothing to do with curse. -- 69.183.85.197 ( talk) 20:19, 16 November 2007 (UTC)