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Please Clean-up and expand the article.
-- Cute 1 4 u 01:21, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
I rewrote it, reorganizing information, expanding it, and dropping some awkward/POV statements. -- Gray Porpoise 23:15, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
The article says "The characters' speech uses simple vocabulary and they speak in simple sentences. For example, "Uma, school, first day" is said in place of "It's Uma's first day of school" or "It's my first day of school."".
That's not a sentence; there's no verb. 75.118.170.35 ( talk) 17:21, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Some user recently said that Super Oobi, Kako-Man, and Booma are characters, and they said that they are characters just because they saw it on a different wiki. Can someone fix this please? 68.191.132.3 ( talk) 21:59, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Better yet, can someone lock the page so that random IP users won't come and edit the page anomynously? 68.191.132.3 ( talk) 21:12, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
Periodically over time, someone has kept adding the names of preschoolers who appeared in this series. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] etc. At no point has the IP hopper opened a discussion, which they would be required to do. There is no indication that these are noteworthy recurring roles, and it's unclear why the IP keeps pushing for the inclusion of what looks to be an indiscriminate list. I'm sure there have been thousands of kids on Sesame Street, do we have articles that catalog all of those people? Since the IP hasn't ever explained the addition, the addition is being considered disruptive until a consensus can be formed. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 20:26, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
In this edit I removed a ton of stuff from the article, much of which was submitted in good faith by IPv6 user 2602:30a:c0c3:86d0:dde8:9f53:2ea0:3ee2 in these edits [6]. The problems I had with the content were several. There was a gross misuse of parentheticals (like this). I'm not sure when parentheticals became the preferred method of cramming content into articles, but they shouldn't be used this way. Parentheticals do not replace proper prose writing and should be used very sparingly. There were significant grammar issues in the contribution as well as tonal problems like "Cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha. Cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha. Cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha. Kako and Elijah are good." It is also unclear to me what these parentheses are all about. For example:
(Inka talks to a girl named Grace about Halloween because of trick or treating that Inka likes, her costume, a clown, a funny clown with a hat and rainbow hair, Inka had a single funny clown costume like a red nose and Inka and Grace are clowns together and had fun by saying a clown phrase, "Oopa-doo!")
Significant grammar issues aside, what are we communicating here? How does this relate to the episode's storyline? Does it at all? I'm speculating that maybe the editor was trying to catalog the "talking to toddlers" aspect of the series, where the puppets communicate with infants or whatever. If so, I don't think that has any place in the article. We should be focusing on the story lines, not as much on the teaching segments. Or, at least until we get some content that clearly explains what the teaching segment is about. The purpose of this article is to present an overview of the most important aspects of the series, not every detail, and we are not here to replace the experience of watching the series. Lastly, in this edit, IP 172.12.56.109 expanded the number of examples of words that Uma cannot pronounce from three to six examples. I have rejected this, as I did when it was submitted by another IP. I don't care what examples are being used (I left the IP's additions and removed the others) but we don't need many examples, as lists like these are magnets for cruft, and we wind up down the road with thirty examples of words the character can't say. Not helpful. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 16:27, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
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This article has been on the GA nom page for a while. I can't say I have the time or experience to review it, but I'd like to point out that the entire bottom half is devoid of images. Per the criteria page it should be well-illustrated with relevant photos. There are only two on the article, both up top.
@ Squiddaddy: (Tagging you since you nominated the page.) I have a photo of an Oobi tattoo that won first place for 'most unusual' at the 2012 Ink Life Tour. If you can find a use for it on the article, maybe in Reception or Other media, I’ll gladly upload it to Commons. There's only one Oobi related photo there as of now and the quality is very poor. Should you choose to use more images, try searching Flickr for CC-licensed ones. FlameRabbit ( talk) 19:05, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
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Grabbing this for review. After a quick skim, looks pretty good but there are a few things that need to be touched up. - adamstom97 ( talk) 04:30, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
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Oobi full-length episode ran for 9-10 minutes. User talk:MattWorks 9:12, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
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Oobi is not 4, he's about 11, and Uma is about 4. Those are the real facts. Larsconks ( talk) 14:46, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
No sources, but the ages on here now are not right. Where did you find these ages? Larsconks ( talk) 17:49, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
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Please Clean-up and expand the article.
-- Cute 1 4 u 01:21, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
I rewrote it, reorganizing information, expanding it, and dropping some awkward/POV statements. -- Gray Porpoise 23:15, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
The article says "The characters' speech uses simple vocabulary and they speak in simple sentences. For example, "Uma, school, first day" is said in place of "It's Uma's first day of school" or "It's my first day of school."".
That's not a sentence; there's no verb. 75.118.170.35 ( talk) 17:21, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Some user recently said that Super Oobi, Kako-Man, and Booma are characters, and they said that they are characters just because they saw it on a different wiki. Can someone fix this please? 68.191.132.3 ( talk) 21:59, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Better yet, can someone lock the page so that random IP users won't come and edit the page anomynously? 68.191.132.3 ( talk) 21:12, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
Periodically over time, someone has kept adding the names of preschoolers who appeared in this series. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] etc. At no point has the IP hopper opened a discussion, which they would be required to do. There is no indication that these are noteworthy recurring roles, and it's unclear why the IP keeps pushing for the inclusion of what looks to be an indiscriminate list. I'm sure there have been thousands of kids on Sesame Street, do we have articles that catalog all of those people? Since the IP hasn't ever explained the addition, the addition is being considered disruptive until a consensus can be formed. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 20:26, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
In this edit I removed a ton of stuff from the article, much of which was submitted in good faith by IPv6 user 2602:30a:c0c3:86d0:dde8:9f53:2ea0:3ee2 in these edits [6]. The problems I had with the content were several. There was a gross misuse of parentheticals (like this). I'm not sure when parentheticals became the preferred method of cramming content into articles, but they shouldn't be used this way. Parentheticals do not replace proper prose writing and should be used very sparingly. There were significant grammar issues in the contribution as well as tonal problems like "Cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha. Cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha. Cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha. Kako and Elijah are good." It is also unclear to me what these parentheses are all about. For example:
(Inka talks to a girl named Grace about Halloween because of trick or treating that Inka likes, her costume, a clown, a funny clown with a hat and rainbow hair, Inka had a single funny clown costume like a red nose and Inka and Grace are clowns together and had fun by saying a clown phrase, "Oopa-doo!")
Significant grammar issues aside, what are we communicating here? How does this relate to the episode's storyline? Does it at all? I'm speculating that maybe the editor was trying to catalog the "talking to toddlers" aspect of the series, where the puppets communicate with infants or whatever. If so, I don't think that has any place in the article. We should be focusing on the story lines, not as much on the teaching segments. Or, at least until we get some content that clearly explains what the teaching segment is about. The purpose of this article is to present an overview of the most important aspects of the series, not every detail, and we are not here to replace the experience of watching the series. Lastly, in this edit, IP 172.12.56.109 expanded the number of examples of words that Uma cannot pronounce from three to six examples. I have rejected this, as I did when it was submitted by another IP. I don't care what examples are being used (I left the IP's additions and removed the others) but we don't need many examples, as lists like these are magnets for cruft, and we wind up down the road with thirty examples of words the character can't say. Not helpful. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 16:27, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
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This article has been on the GA nom page for a while. I can't say I have the time or experience to review it, but I'd like to point out that the entire bottom half is devoid of images. Per the criteria page it should be well-illustrated with relevant photos. There are only two on the article, both up top.
@ Squiddaddy: (Tagging you since you nominated the page.) I have a photo of an Oobi tattoo that won first place for 'most unusual' at the 2012 Ink Life Tour. If you can find a use for it on the article, maybe in Reception or Other media, I’ll gladly upload it to Commons. There's only one Oobi related photo there as of now and the quality is very poor. Should you choose to use more images, try searching Flickr for CC-licensed ones. FlameRabbit ( talk) 19:05, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
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Oobi is not 4, he's about 11, and Uma is about 4. Those are the real facts. Larsconks ( talk) 14:46, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
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