Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-07-31/Humour

Humour

It's all the same

Contribute —

By Barbara Page

ANI and Wrestling

Portrait Photograph of masked wrestler without a shirt, wearing black armbands that blend into background — Would you let this guy with no arms date your daughter (or son, for that matter)?

Photograph of Hulk Hogan tearing off his flamboyant costume and exposing his chest — He tried Hollywood but it didn't work out.

Photograph of two female wrestlers grappling each other — Getting ready for the Olympics in 2022.

Photograph of two women wrestling and covered in mud — "I'm sick and tired of your split infinitives!"

I'm not the only one who has seen a synergistic connection between WikiProject Professional wrestling and ANI. Discussion has already progressed from a very simple idea all the way to the merging of these two very active areas of the English Wikipedia. This new PW–ANI WikiProject has been recently created to streamline the creation of content and consensus that is common between these topic areas. Basically, the topic that binds these active areas of editing together is exciting and filled with orchestrated productions created for entertainment. One does not have to spend much time finding the sublime similarities between the two. Both involve the "suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief [which] has been defined as a willingness to suspend one's critical faculties and believe something surreal; sacrifice of realism and logic for the sake of enjoyment."

From a recent discussion of pro-wrestling:

Your inability to comprehend the meaning of my "half-serious" proposal is, ironically, emblematic of the very reasons that editing in topic areas such as pro "wrestling" and snooker and beauty pageants needs special restrictions. EEng 1:59 a.m., 18 June 2018 (UTC), Monday (1 month, 13 days ago)

Let's face the real facts here: Galatz is a member of WikiProject Professional wrestling and doesn't like EEng expressing his opinions about the value of the encyclopedia covering that sport spectacle, given the number of disputatious editors involved in writing about it and the noticeboard complaints it generates. Beyond My Ken (talk) 2:19 a.m., 18 June 2018 (UTC), Monday (1 month, 13 days ago)

Next you'll be telling us pro wrestling isn't real. EEng 3:35 a.m., 18 June 2018 (UTC), Monday (1 month, 13 days ago)

As someone who works in the performing arts, one has to appreciate the amount of time and effort that goes into conceiving, staging, choreographing, and rehearsing these shows -- about 15 minutes of appreciation should be sufficient. I still like the line from one of The Thin Man films, where someone tells Nick that he's going to see a great wrestling bout, and Nick replies "Why? Were you at the rehearsal?" Beyond My Ken (talk) 5:25 a.m., 18 June 2018 (UTC), Monday (1 month, 13 days ago)^[1]

Let us compare these two segments of the English Wikipedia along with the 'real' sport of amateur wrestling and a previous version of Mud wrestling:


Topic descriptions	WikiProject Professional wrestling	Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents	Amateur wrestling	Mudwrestling
Use of mysterious and sometimes ridiculous names	Yes	Yes	No	No
Incorporates the use of flimsy tables and chairs	Yes	No	No	no, but water is necessary
A high school competitive sport	No	likely	Yes	not yet
A competitive sport	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Women participants	Yes and it boosts ticket sales	9.8% of the time	Yes	actually dominate the sport
Pageviews/day	2,209	3,310	104	27
Prone to hyperbole	Yes	major rhetorical device	No	not yet
Weight requirements	No	Using bold font lends weight to the discussion	Yes	Chubby women are not as popular as non-chubby women
Olympic sport	No	Working on it	Yes	not yet
Get paid	Yes	No	No	probably
Page watchers	252	7,423	48	<30

References

^ Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive985 § Follow-on discussion re addressing disruption in the pro wrestling topic area

← Previous "Humour"

Next "Humour" →

In this issue

31 July 2018 (all comments)

Discuss this story

These comments are automatically transcluded from this article's talk page. To follow comments, add the page to your watchlist. If your comment has not appeared here, you can try purging the cache.

So what's the equivalent of ANI's WrestleMania? Nova Crystallis (Talk) 01:30, 1 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Where and when can I watch ANI on TV with live commentary? Or are we doing live streams on the internet already? Thanks, Redalert2fan (talk) 12:25, 1 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Here is what I do to simulate the existence of live commentary. First, you have to use the Chrome browser and add the extension called 'Read-aloud'. Once you have that installed, load up any of the hundreds of archived ANI discussions, click the little megaphone icon at the top of the browser window and you're good to go. Best Regards, Barbara ✐ ✉ 12:44, 1 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nah, it's not quite the same without Jim Ross commentating. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 23:15, 1 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It gets even better streaming it through your Bose Tower at 95 decibels. Your favorite editors sound like God. Barbara ✐ ✉ 21:55, 3 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's your Signpost. You can help us.

Home

About

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-07-31/Humour

It's all the same

ANI and Wrestling

See also

References

Discuss this story

Pfad - The Proxy pFad of © 2024 Garber Painting. All rights reserved.