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The Simpson family. From left to right: Bart, Marge, Santa's Little Helper (dog), Maggie, Homer, Lisa, and Snowball II (cat). | |
Genre | Animated sitcom |
Created by | Matt Groening |
Based on | The Simpsons shorts by Matt Groening |
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Theme music composer | Danny Elfman |
Opening theme | 'The Simpsons Theme' |
Composer(s) | Richard Gibbs (1989–1990) Alf Clausen (1990–2017) Bleeding Fingers Music (2017–present) |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 30 |
No. of episodes | 662 (list of episodes) |
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Executive producer(s) |
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Running time | 21–24 minutes |
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Distributor | 20th Television |
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Original network | Fox |
Picture format | 480i (1989–2009) 1080i (HDTV) (2009–present) |
Audio format | Stereo (1989–1991) Dolby Surround 2.0 (1991–2009) Dolby Digital 5.1 (2009–present) |
Original release | December 17, 1989 – present |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | The Simpsons shorts from The Tracey Ullman Show |
External links | |
Official website |
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.[1][2][3] The series is a satirical depiction of working-class life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture and society, television, and the human condition.
The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks. Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after his own family members, substituting Bart for his own name. The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19, 1987. After three seasons, the sketch was developed into a half-hour prime time show and became Fox's first series to land in the Top 30 ratings in a season (1989–90).
Since its debut on December 17, 1989, 662 episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast. It is the longest-running American sitcom, and the longest-running American scripted primetime television series both in terms of seasons and number of episodes. The Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 27, 2007, and grossed over $527 million. Then on October 30, 2007, a video game was released. Currently, The Simpsons finished airing its thirtieth season, whichbegan airing September 30, 2018.[4][5]The Simpsons was renewed for a thirty-first and thirty-second season on February 6, 2019, in which the latter will contain the 700th episode.[6]The Simpsons is a joint production by Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television and syndicated by 20th Television.[7]
The Simpsons received acclaim throughout its first nine[8][9] or ten[10][11] seasons, which are generally considered its 'Golden Age'. Time named it the 20th century's best television series,[12] and Erik Adams of The A.V. Club named it 'television's crowning achievement regardless of format'.[13] On January 14, 2000, the Simpson family was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 34 Primetime Emmy Awards, 30 Annie Awards, and a Peabody Award. Homer's exclamatory catchphrase 'D'oh!' has been adopted into the English language, while The Simpsons has influenced many other later adult-oriented animated sitcoms. However, it has also been criticized for a perceived decline in quality over the years.
The Simpsons will return to Animation Domination on September 29, 2019.[14]
- 1Premise
- 2Production
- 4Hallmarks
- 4.3Humor
- 5Influence and legacy
- 6Reception and achievements
- 6.4Criticism
- 7The media
- 10References
Premise
Characters
The Simpsons is known for its wide ensemble of main and supporting characters.
The main characters are the Simpson family, who live in a fictional 'Middle America' town of Springfield.[15]Homer, the father, works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position at odds with his careless, buffoonish personality. He is married to Marge Bouvier, a stereotypical American housewife and mother. They have three children: Bart, a ten-year-old troublemaker and prankster; Lisa, a precocious eight-year-old activist; and Maggie, the baby of the family who rarely speaks, but communicates by sucking on a pacifier. Although the family is dysfunctional, many episodes examine their relationships and bonds with each other and they are often shown to care about one another.[16] Homer's dad Grampa Simpson lives in the Springfield Retirement Home after Homer forced his dad to sell his house so that his family could buy theirs. Grampa Simpson has had starring roles in several episodes.
The family also owns a dog, Santa's Little Helper, and a cat, Snowball V, renamed Snowball II in 'I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot'.[17] Both pets have had starring roles in several episodes.
The Simpsons sports a vast array of secondary and tertiary characters.
The show includes an array of quirky supporting characters, which include Homer's co-workers (also friends) Lenny Leonard and Carl Carlson, the school principal Seymour Skinner and teachers Edna Krabappel and Elizabeth Hoover, neighbor Ned Flanders, friends Barney Gumble, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Moe Szyslak, Milhouse Van Houten, and Nelson Muntz, extended relatives Patty and Selma Bouvier, townspeople such as Mayor Quimby, Chief Clancy Wiggum, tycoon Charles Montgomery Burns and his executive assistant Waylon Smithers, and local celebrities Krusty the Clown and news reporter Kent Brockman.
The creators originally intended many of these characters as one-time jokes or for fulfilling needed functions in the town. A number of them have gained expanded roles and subsequently starred in their own episodes. According to Matt Groening, the show adopted the concept of a large supporting cast from the comedy show SCTV.[18]
Continuity and the floating timeline
Despite the depiction of yearly milestones such as holidays or birthdays passing, the characters do not age between episodes (either physically or in stated age), and generally appear just as they did when the series began. The series uses a floating timeline in which episodes generally take place in the year the episode is produced even though the characters do not age. Flashbacks and flashforwards do occasionally depict the characters at other points in their lives, with the timeline of these depictions also generally floating relative to the year the episode is produced. For example, in the 1991 episode 'I Married Marge', Bart (who is always 10 years old) appears to be born in 1980 or 1981. But in the 1995 episode 'And Maggie Makes Three', Maggie (who always appears to be around 1 year old) appears to be born in 1993 or 1994.
A canon of the show does exist, although Treehouse of Horror episodes and any fictional story told within the series are typically non-canon. However, continuity is inconsistent and limited in The Simpsons. For example, Krusty the Clown may be able to read in one episode, but may not be able to read in another. Lessons learned by the family in one episode may be forgotten in the next. Some examples of limited continuity include Sideshow Bob's appearances where Bart and Lisa flashback at all the crimes he committed in Springfield or when the characters try to remember things that happened in previous episodes.
Setting
The Simpsons takes place in the fictional American town of Springfield in an unknown and impossible-to-determine U.S. state. The show is intentionally evasive in regard to Springfield's location.[19] Springfield's geography, and that of its surroundings, contains coastlines, deserts, vast farmland, tall mountains, or whatever the story or joke requires.[20] Groening has said that Springfield has much in common with Portland, Oregon, the city where he grew up.[21] The name 'Springfield' is a common one in America and appears in at least 29 states.[22] Groening has said that he named it after Springfield, Oregon, and the fictitious Springfield which was the setting of the series Father Knows Best. He 'figured out that Springfield was one of the most common names for a city in the U.S. In anticipation of the success of the show, I thought, 'This will be cool; everyone will think it's their Springfield.' And they do.'[23]
Production
Development
James L. Brooks (pictured) asked Matt Groening to create a series of animated shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show.
When producer James L. Brooks was working on the television variety show The Tracey Ullman Show, he decided to include small animated sketches before and after the commercial breaks. Having seen one of cartoonist Matt Groening's Life in Hell comic strips, Brooks asked Groening to pitch an idea for a series of animated shorts. Groening initially intended to present an animated version of his Life in Hell series.[24] However, Groening later realized that animating Life in Hell would require the rescinding of publication rights for his life's work. He therefore chose another approach while waiting in the lobby of Brooks's office for the pitch meeting, hurriedly formulating his version of a dysfunctional family that became the Simpsons.[24][25] He named the characters after his own family members, substituting 'Bart' for his own name, adopting an anagram of the word 'brat'.[24]
The Simpson family first appeared as shorts in The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19, 1987.[26] Groening submitted only basic sketches to the animators and assumed that the figures would be cleaned up in production. However, the animators merely re-traced his drawings, which led to the crude appearance of the characters in the initial shorts.[24] The animation was produced domestically at Klasky Csupo,[27][28] with Wes Archer, David Silverman, and Bill Kopp being animators for the first season.[29] Colorist Gyorgyi Peluce was the person who decided to make the characters yellow.[29]
In 1989, a team of production companies adapted The Simpsons into a half-hour series for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The team included the Klasky Csupo animation house. Brooks negotiated a provision in the contract with the Fox network that prevented Fox from interfering with the show's content.[30] Groening said his goal in creating the show was to offer the audience an alternative to what he called 'the mainstream trash' that they were watching.[31] The half-hour series premiered on December 17, 1989, with 'Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire'.[32] 'Some Enchanted Evening' was the first full-length episode produced, but it did not broadcast until May 1990, as the last episode of the first season, because of animation problems.[33] In 1992, Tracey Ullman filed a lawsuit against Fox, claiming that her show was the source of the series' success. The suit said she should receive a share of the profits of The Simpsons[34]—a claim rejected by the courts.[35]
Executive producers and showrunners
Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons
List of showrunners throughout the series' run:
- Season 1–2: Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, & Sam Simon
- Season 3–4: Al Jean & Mike Reiss
- Season 5–6: David Mirkin
- Season 7–8: Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein
- Season 9–12: Mike Scully
- Season 13–present: Al Jean
Matt Groening and James L. Brooks have served as executive producers during the show's entire history, and also function as creative consultants. Sam Simon, described by former Simpsons director Brad Bird as 'the unsung hero' of the show,[36] served as creative supervisor for the first four seasons. He was constantly at odds with Groening, Brooks and the show's production company Gracie Films and left in 1993.[37] Before leaving, he negotiated a deal that sees him receive a share of the profits every year, and an executive producer credit despite not having worked on the show since 1993,[37][38] at least until his passing in 2015.[39] A more involved position on the show is the showrunner, who acts as head writer and manages the show's production for an entire season.[29]
Writing
The first team of writers, assembled by Sam Simon, consisted of John Swartzwelder, Jon Vitti, George Meyer, Jeff Martin, Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky.[40] Newer Simpsons' writing teams typically consist of sixteen writers who propose episode ideas at the beginning of each December.[41] The main writer of each episode writes the first draft. Group rewriting sessions develop final scripts by adding or removing jokes, inserting scenes, and calling for re-readings of lines by the show's vocal performers.[42] Until 2004,[43] George Meyer, who had developed the show since the first season, was active in these sessions. According to long-time writer Jon Vitti, Meyer usually invented the best lines in a given episode, even though other writers may receive script credits.[42] Each episode takes six months to produce so the show rarely comments on current events.[44]
Part of the writing staff of The Simpsons in 1992. Back row, left to right: Mike Mendel, Colin A. B. V. Lewis (partial), Jeff Goldstein, Al Jean (partial), Conan O'Brien, Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, Mike Reiss, Ken Tsumura, George Meyer, John Swartzwelder, Jon Vitti (partial), CJ Gibson, and David M. Stern. Front row, left to right: Dee Capelli, Lona Williams, and unknown
Credited with sixty episodes, John Swartzwelder is the most prolific writer on The Simpsons.[45] One of the best-known former writers is Conan O'Brien, who contributed to several episodes in the early 1990s before replacing David Letterman as host of the talk show Late Night.[46] English comedian Ricky Gervais wrote the episode 'Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife', becoming the first celebrity to both write and guest star in the same episode.[47]Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, writers of the film Superbad, wrote the episode 'Homer the Whopper', with Rogen voicing a character in it.[48]
At the end of 2007, the writers of The Simpsonswent on strike together with the other members of the Writers Guild of America, East. The show's writers had joined the guild in 1998.[49]
Voice actors
The Simpsons has six main cast members: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, and Harry Shearer. Castellaneta voices Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby, Barney Gumble, and other adult, male characters.[50]Julie Kavner voices Marge Simpson and Patty and Selma, as well as several minor characters.[50] Castellaneta and Kavner had been a part of The Tracey Ullman Show cast and were given the parts so that new actors would not be needed.[51] Cartwright voices Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum and other children.[50] Smith, the voice of Lisa Simpson, is the only cast member who regularly voices only one character, although she occasionally plays other episodic characters.[50] The producers decided to hold casting for the roles of Bart and Lisa. Smith had initially been asked to audition for the role of Bart, but casting director Bonita Pietila believed her voice was too high,[52] so she was given the role of Lisa instead.[53] Cartwright was originally brought in to voice Lisa, but upon arriving at the audition, she found that Lisa was simply described as the 'middle child' and at the time did not have much personality. Cartwright became more interested in the role of Bart, who was described as 'devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, [and] clever'.[54] Groening let her try out for the part instead, and upon hearing her read, gave her the job on the spot.[55] Cartwright is the only one of the six main Simpsons cast members who had been professionally trained in voice acting prior to working on the show.[45] Azaria and Shearer do not voice members of the title family, but play a majority of the male townspeople. Azaria, who has been a part of the Simpsons regular voice cast since the second season,[56] voices recurring characters such as Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon and Professor Frink. Shearer provides voices for Mr. Burns, Mr. Smithers, Principal Skinner, Ned Flanders, Reverend Lovejoy and Dr. Hibbert.[50] Every main cast member has won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance.[57][58]
With one exception, episode credits list only the voice actors, and not the characters they voice. Both Fox and the production crew wanted to keep their identities secret during the early seasons and, therefore, closed most of the recording sessions while refusing to publish photos of the recording artists.[59] However, the network eventually revealed which roles each actor performed in the episode 'Old Money', because the producers said the voice actors should receive credit for their work.[60] In 2003, the cast appeared in an episode of Inside the Actors Studio, doing live performances of their characters' voices.
The six main actors were paid $30,000 per episode until 1998, when they were involved in a pay dispute with Fox. The company threatened to replace them with new actors, even going as far as preparing for casting of new voices, but series creator Groening supported the actors in their action.[61] The issue was soon resolved and, from 1998 to 2004, they were paid $125,000 per episode. The show's revenue continued to rise through syndication and DVD sales, and in April 2004 the main cast stopped appearing for script readings, demanding they be paid $360,000 per episode.[62][63] The strike was resolved a month later[64] and their salaries were increased to something between $250,000[65] and $360,000 per episode.[66] In 2008, production for the twentieth season was put on hold due to new contract negotiations with the voice actors, who wanted a 'healthy bump' in salary to an amount close to $500,000 per episode.[66] The negotiations were soon completed, and the actors' salary was raised to $400,000 per episode.[67] Three years later, with Fox threatening to cancel the series unless production costs were cut, the cast members accepted a 30 percent pay cut, down to just over $300,000 per episode.[68]
In addition to the main cast, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Marcia Wallace, Maggie Roswell, and Russi Taylor voice supporting characters.[50] From 1999 to 2002, Roswell's characters were voiced by Marcia Mitzman Gaven. Karl Wiedergott has also appeared in minor roles, but does not voice any recurring characters.[69] Wiedergott left the show in 2010, and since then Chris Edgerly has appeared regularly to voice minor characters. Repeat 'special guest' cast members include Albert Brooks, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, Joe Mantegna, Maurice LaMarche, and Kelsey Grammer.[70] Following Hartman's death in 1998, the characters he voiced (Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz) were retired;[71] Wallace's character of Edna Krabappel was retired as well after her death in 2013.
Episodes will quite often feature guest voices from a wide range of professions, including actors, athletes, authors, bands, musicians and scientists. In the earlier seasons, most of the guest stars voiced characters, but eventually more started appearing as themselves. Tony Bennett was the first guest star to appear as himself, appearing briefly in the season two episode 'Dancin' Homer'.[72]The Simpsons holds the world record for 'Most Guest Stars Featured in a Television Series'.[73]
The Simpsons has been dubbed into several other languages, including Japanese, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. It is also one of the few programs dubbed in both standard French and Quebec French.[74] The show has been broadcast in Arabic, but due to Islamic customs, numerous aspects of the show have been changed. For example, Homer drinks soda instead of beer and eats Egyptian beef sausages instead of hot dogs. Because of such changes, the Arabized version of the series met with a negative reaction from the lifelong Simpsons fans in the area.[75]
Animation
Animation director David Silverman, who helped define the look of the show[29]
Several different U.S. and international studios animate The Simpsons. Throughout the run of the animated shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, the animation was produced domestically at Klasky Csupo.[27] With the debut of the series, because of an increased workload, Fox subcontracted production to several local and foreign studios.[27] These are AKOM,[76]Anivision,[77]Rough Draft Studios,[78]USAnimation,[79] and Toonzone Entertainment.[80]
For the first three seasons, Klasky Csupo animated The Simpsons in the United States. In 1992, the show's production company, Gracie Films, switched domestic production to Film Roman,[81] who continued to animate the show until 2016. In Season 14, production switched from traditional cel animation to digital ink and paint.[82] The first episode to experiment with digital coloring was 'Radioactive Man' in 1995. Animators used digital ink and paint during production of the season 12 episode 'Tennis the Menace', but Gracie Films delayed the regular use of digital ink and paint until two seasons later. The already completed 'Tennis the Menace' was broadcast as made.[83]
The production staff at the U.S. animation studio, Film Roman, draws storyboards, designs new characters, backgrounds, props and draws character and background layouts, which in turn become animatics to be screened for the writers at Gracie Films for any changes to be made before the work is shipped overseas. The overseas studios then draw the inbetweens, ink and paint, and render the animation to tape before it is shipped back to the United States to be delivered to Fox three to four months later.[84]
The series began high-definition production in Season 20; the first episode, 'Take My Life, Please', aired February 15, 2009. The move to HDTV included a new opening sequence.[85] Matt Groening called it a complicated change because it affected the timing and composition of animation.[86]
Themes
The Simpsons uses the standard setup of a situational comedy, or sitcom, as its premise. The series centers on a family and their life in a typical American town,[15] serving as a satirical parody of a middle classAmerican lifestyle.[87] However, because of its animated nature, The Simpsons' scope is larger than that of a regular sitcom. The town of Springfield acts as a complete universe in which characters can explore the issues faced by modern society. By having Homer work in a nuclear power plant, the show can comment on the state of the environment.[88] Through Bart and Lisa's days at Springfield Elementary School, the show's writers illustrate pressing or controversial issues in the field of education. The town features a vast array of media channels—from kids' television programming to local news, which enables the producers to make jokes about themselves and the entertainment industry.[89]
Some commentators say the show is political in nature and susceptible to a left-wing bias.[90]Al Jean acknowledged in an interview that 'We [the show] are of liberal bent.'[91] The writers often evince an appreciation for liberal ideals, but the show makes jokes across the political spectrum.[92] The show portrays government and large corporations as callous entities that take advantage of the common worker.[91] Thus, the writers often portray authority figures in an unflattering or negative light. In The Simpsons, politicians are corrupt, ministers such as Reverend Lovejoy are indifferent to churchgoers, and the local police force is incompetent.[93] Religion also figures as a recurring theme.[94] In times of crisis, the family often turns to God, and the show has dealt with most of the major religions.[95]
Hallmarks
Opening sequence
The music played during the opening sequence. This piece is also known as The Simpsons Theme.
The Simpsons'opening sequence is one of the show's most memorable hallmarks. The standard opening has gone through three iterations (a replacement of some shots at the start of the second season, and a brand new sequence when the show switched to high-definition in 2009).[96]
Each has the same basic sequence of events: the camera zooms through cumulus clouds, through the show's title towards the town of Springfield. The camera then follows the members of the family on their way home. Upon entering their house, the Simpsons settle down on their couch to watch television. The original opening was created by David Silverman, and was the first task he did when production began on the show.[97] The series' distinctive theme song was composed by musician Danny Elfman in 1989, after Groening approached him requesting a retro style piece. This piece has been noted by Elfman as the most popular of his career.[98]
One of the most distinctive aspects of the opening is that three of its elements change from episode to episode: Bart writes different things on the school chalkboard,[97] Lisa plays different solos on her saxophone (or occasionally a different instrument), and different gags accompany the family as they enter their living room to sit on the couch.[99]
Halloween episodes
Bart Simpson introducing a segment of 'Treehouse of Horror IV' in the manner of Rod Serling's Night Gallery
The special Halloween episode has become an annual tradition. 'Treehouse of Horror' first broadcast in 1990 as part of season two and established the pattern of three separate, self-contained stories in each Halloween episode.[100] These pieces usually involve the family in some horror, science fiction, or supernatural setting and often parody or pay homage to a famous piece of work in those genres.[101] They always take place outside the normal continuity of the show. Although the Treehouse series is meant to be seen on Halloween, this changed by the 2000s, when new installments have premiered after Halloween due to Fox's current contract with Major League Baseball's World Series,[102] however, since 2011, every Treehouse of Horror episode has aired in October.
Humor
The show's humor turns on cultural references that cover a wide spectrum of society so that viewers from all generations can enjoy the show. Such references, for example, come from movies, television, music, literature, science, and history.[103] The animators also regularly add jokes or sight gags into the show's background via humorous or incongruous bits of text in signs, newspapers, billboards, and elsewhere. The audience may often not notice the visual jokes in a single viewing. Some are so fleeting that they become apparent only by pausing a video recording of the show or viewing it in slow motion.[104] Kristin Thompson argues that The Simpsons uses a 'flurry of cultural references, intentionally inconsistent characterization, and considerable self-reflexivity about television conventions and the status of the programme as a television show.'[105]
One of Bart's early hallmarks was his prank calls to Moe's Tavern owner Moe Szyslak in which Bart calls Moe and asks for a gag name. Moe tries to find that person in the bar, but soon realizes it is a prank call and angrily threatens Bart. These calls were apparently based on a series of prank calls known as the Tube Bar recordings, though Groening has denied any causal connection.[106]Moe was based partly on Tube Bar owner Louis 'Red' Deutsch, whose often profane responses inspired Moe's violent side.[107] As the series progressed, it became more difficult for the writers to come up with a fake name and to write Moe's angry response, and the pranks were dropped as a regular joke during the fourth season.[108][109]The Simpsons also often includes self-referential humor.[110] The most common form is jokes about Fox Broadcasting.[111] For example, the episode 'She Used to Be My Girl' included a scene in which a Fox News Channel van drove down the street while displaying a large 'Bush Cheney 2004' banner and playing Queen's 'We Are the Champions', in reference to the 2004 U.S. presidential election and claims of conservative bias in Fox News.[112][113]
The show uses catchphrases, and most of the primary and secondary characters have at least one each.[114] Notable expressions include Homer's annoyed grunt 'D'oh!', Mr. Burns' 'Excellent' and Nelson Muntz's 'Ha-ha!' Some of Bart's catchphrases, such as '¡Ay, caramba!', 'Don't have a cow, man!' and 'Eat my shorts!' appeared on T-shirts in the show's early days.[115] However, Bart rarely used the latter two phrases until after they became popular through the merchandising. The use of many of these catchphrases has declined in recent seasons. The episode 'Bart Gets Famous' mocks catchphrase-based humor, as Bart achieves fame on the Krusty the Clown Show solely for saying 'I didn't do it.'[116]
Foreshadowing of actual events
The Simpsons has gained notoriety for jokes that eventually became reality. Perhaps the most famous example comes from the episode 'Bart to the Future', which mentions billionaire Donald Trump having been President of the United States at one time and leaving the nation broke. The episode first aired in 2000, sixteen years before Trump was elected.[117] Another episode, 'When You Dish Upon a Star', lampooned 20th Century Fox as a division of The Walt Disney Company. Nineteen years later, Disney purchased Fox.[118] Other examples of The Simpsons predicting the future include the introduction of the Smartwatch, video chat services, autocorrection technology, and Lady Gaga's acrobatic performance at the Super Bowl LI halftime show.[119]
Influence and legacy
Idioms
A number of neologisms that originated on The Simpsons have entered popular vernacular.[120][121]Mark Liberman, director of the Linguistic Data Consortium, remarked, 'The Simpsons has apparently taken over from Shakespeare and the Bible as our culture's greatest source of idioms, catchphrases and sundry other textual allusions.'[121] The most famous catchphrase is Homer's annoyed grunt: 'D'oh!' So ubiquitous is the expression that it is now listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, but without the apostrophe.[122] Dan Castellaneta says he borrowed the phrase from James Finlayson, an actor in many Laurel and Hardy comedies, who pronounced it in a more elongated and whining tone. The staff of The Simpsons told Castellaneta to shorten the noise, and it went on to become the well-known exclamation in the television series.[123]
Groundskeeper Willie's description of the French as 'cheese-eating surrender monkeys' was used by National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg in 2003, after France's opposition to the proposed invasion of Iraq. The phrase quickly spread to other journalists.[121][124] 'Cromulent' and 'embiggen', words used in 'Lisa the Iconoclast', have since appeared in the Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon,[125] and scientific journals respectively.[121][126] 'Kwyjibo', a fake Scrabble word invented by Bart in 'Bart the Genius', was used as one of the aliases of the creator of the Melissa worm.[127] 'I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords', was used by Kent Brockman in 'Deep Space Homer' and has become a common phrase.[128] Variants of Brockman's utterance are used to express obsequious submission. It has been used in media, such as New Scientist magazine.[129] The dismissive term 'Meh', believed to have been popularized by the show,[121][130][131] entered the Collins English Dictionary in 2008.[132] Other words credited as stemming from the show include 'yoink' and 'craptacular'.[121]
The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations includes several quotations from the show. As well as 'cheese-eating surrender monkeys', Homer's lines, 'Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is never try', from 'Burns' Heir' (season five, 1994) as well as 'Kids are the best, Apu. You can teach them to hate the things you hate. And they practically raise themselves, what with the Internet and all', from 'Eight Misbehavin' (season 11, 1999), entered the dictionary in August 2007.[133]
Many quotes/scenes have become popular internet memes, including Jasper Beardley‘s quote 'That’s a paddlin’' from The PTA Disbands(season 6, 1995) and Steamed Hams from 22 Short Films About Springfield (season 7, 1996).
Television
The Simpsons was the first successful animated program in American prime time since Wait Till Your Father Gets Home in the 1970s.[134] During most of the 1980s, US pundits considered animated shows as appropriate only for children, and animating a show was too expensive to achieve a quality suitable for prime-time television. The Simpsons changed this perception,[27] initially leading to a short period where networks attempted to recreate prime-time cartoon success with shows like Capitol Critters, Fish Police, and Family Dog, which were expensive and unsuccessful.[135]The Simpsons' use of Korean animation studios for tweening, coloring, and filming made the episodes cheaper. The success of The Simpsons and the lower production cost prompted US television networks to take chances on other adult animated series.[27] This development led US producers to a 1990s boom in new, animated prime-time shows for adults, such as Beavis and Butt-Head, South Park, Family Guy, King of the Hill, Futurama and The Critic.[27] For Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, 'The Simpsons created an audience for prime-time animation that had not been there for many, many years ... As far as I'm concerned, they basically re-invented the wheel. They created what is in many ways—you could classify it as—a wholly new medium.'[136]
The Simpsons has had crossovers with four other shows. In the episode 'A Star Is Burns', Marge invites Jay Sherman, the main character of The Critic, to be a judge for a film festival in Springfield. Matt Groening had his name removed from the episode since he had no involvement with The Critic.[137]South Park later paid homage to The Simpsons with the episode 'Simpsons Already Did It'.[138] In 'Simpsorama', the Planet Express crew from Futurama come to Springfield in the present to prevent the Simpsons from destroying the future.[139] In the Family Guy episode 'The Simpsons Guy', the Griffins visit Springfield and meet the Simpsons.[140]
The Simpsons has also influenced live-action shows like Malcolm in the Middle, which featured the use of sight gags and did not use a laugh track unlike most sitcoms.[141][142]Malcolm in the Middle debuted January 9, 2000, in the time slot after The Simpsons. Ricky Gervais called The Simpsons an influence on The Office,[143] and fellow British sitcom Spaced was, according to its director Edgar Wright, 'an attempt to do a live-action The Simpsons.'[144] In Georgia, the animated television sitcom The Samsonadzes, launched in November 2009, has been noted for its very strong resemblance with The Simpsons, which its creator Shalva Ramishvili has acknowledged.[145][146]
Reception and achievements
Season | No. of episodes | Originally aired | Viewership | |||||
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Season premiere | Season finale | Time Slot (ET) | Avg. viewers (in millions) | Most watched episode | ||||
Viewers (millions) | Episode Title | |||||||
1 | 1989–90 | 13 | December 17, 1989 | May 13, 1990 | Sunday 8:30 PM | 27.8 | 33.5 | 'Life on the Fast Lane' |
2 | 1990–91 | 22 | October 11, 1990 | July 11, 1991 | Thursday 8:00 PM | 24.4 | 33.6 | 'Bart Gets an F' |
3 | 1991–92 | 24 | September 19, 1991 | August 27, 1992 | 21.8 | 25.5 | 'Colonel Homer' | |
4 | 1992–93 | 22 | September 24, 1992 | May 13, 1993 | 22.4 | 28.6 | 'Lisa's First Word' | |
5 | 1993–94 | 22 | September 30, 1993 | May 19, 1994 | 18.9 | 24.0 | 'Treehouse of Horror IV' | |
6 | 1994–95 | 25 | September 4, 1994 | May 21, 1995 | Sunday 8:00 PM | 15.6 | 22.2 | 'Treehouse of Horror V' |
7 | 1995–96 | 25 | September 17, 1995 | May 19, 1996 | 15.1 | 19.7 | 'Treehouse of Horror VI' | |
8 | 1996–97 | 25 | October 27, 1996 | May 18, 1997 | Sunday 8:30 PM (Episodes 1–3) Sunday 8:00 PM (Episodes 4–25) | 14.5 | 20.9 | 'The Springfield Files' |
9 | 1997–98 | 25 | September 21, 1997 | May 17, 1998 | Sunday 8:00 PM | 16.3 | 19.8 | 'The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons' |
10 | 1998–99 | 23 | August 23, 1998 | May 16, 1999 | 13.5 | 15.5 | 'Maximum Homerdrive' | |
11 | 1999–2000 | 22 | September 26, 1999 | May 21, 2000 | 8.8 | 18.4 | 'The Mansion Family' | |
12 | 2000–01 | 21 | November 1, 2000 | May 20, 2001 | 15.5 | 18.6 | 'Worst Episode Ever' | |
13 | 2001–02 | 22 | November 6, 2001 | May 22, 2002 | Tuesday 8:30 PM (Episode 1) Sunday 8:00 PM (Episodes 2–20) Sunday 7:30 PM (Episode 21) Wednesday 8:00 PM (Episode 22) | 12.5 | 14.9 | 'The Parent Rap' |
14 | 2002–03 | 22 | November 3, 2002 | May 18, 2003 | Sunday 8:00 PM (Episodes 1–11, 13–21) Sunday 8:30 PM (Episodes 12, 22) | 14.4 | 22.1 | 'I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can' |
15 | 2003–04 | 22 | November 2, 2003 | May 23, 2004 | Sunday 8:00 PM | 11.0 | 16.3 | 'I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot' |
16 | 2004–05 | 21 | November 7, 2004 | May 15, 2005 | Sunday 8:00 PM (Episodes 1–7, 9–16, 18, 20) Sunday 10:30 PM (Episode 8) Sunday 8:30 PM (Episodes 17, 19, 21) | 10.2 | 23.07 | 'Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass' |
17 | 2005–06 | 22 | September 11, 2005 | May 21, 2006 | Sunday 8:00 PM | 9.55 | 11.63 | 'Treehouse of Horror XVI' |
18 | 2006–07 | 22 | September 10, 2006 | May 20, 2007 | 9.15 | 13.90 | 'The Wife Aquatic' | |
19 | 2007–08 | 20 | September 23, 2007 | May 18, 2008 | 8.37 | 11.7 | 'Treehouse of Horror XVIII' | |
20 | 2008–09 | 21 | September 28, 2008 | May 17, 2009 | 7.1 | 12.4 | 'Treehouse of Horror XIX' | |
21 | 2009–10 | 23 | September 27, 2009 | May 23, 2010 | 7.1 | 14.62 | 'Once Upon a Time in Springfield' | |
22 | 2010–11 | 22 | September 26, 2010 | May 22, 2011 | 7.09 | 12.6 | 'Moms I'd Like to Forget' | |
23 | 2011–12 | 22 | September 25, 2011 | May 20, 2012 | 6.15[147] | 11.48 | 'The D'oh-cial Network' | |
24 | 2012–13 | 22 | September 30, 2012 | May 19, 2013 | 5.41[148] | 8.97 | 'Homer Goes to Prep School' | |
25 | 2013–14 | 22 | September 29, 2013 | May 18, 2014 | 5.02[149] | 12.04 | 'Steal This Episode' | |
26 | 2014–15 | 22 | September 28, 2014 | May 17, 2015 | 5.61[150] | 10.62 | 'The Man Who Came to Be Dinner' | |
27 | 2015–16 | 22 | September 27, 2015 | May 22, 2016 | 4.0[151] | 8.33 | 'Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles' | |
28 | 2016–17 | 22 | September 25, 2016 | May 21, 2017 | 4.80[152] | 8.19 | 'Pork and Burns' | |
29 | 2017–18 | 21 | October 1, 2017 | May 20, 2018 | 4.07[153] | 8.04 | 'Frink Gets Testy' | |
30 | 2018–19 | 23 | September 30, 2018 | May 12, 2019 | 3.10[154] | 8.20 | 'The Girl on the Bus' | |
31 | 2019–20 | TBA | September 29, 2019 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Early success
The Simpsons was the Fox network's first television series to rank among a season's top 30 highest-rated shows.[155] In 1990, Bart quickly became one of the most popular characters on television in what was termed 'Bartmania'.[156][157][158][159] He became the most prevalent Simpsons character on memorabilia, such as T-shirts. In the early 1990s, millions of T-shirts featuring Bart were sold;[160] as many as one million were sold on some days.[161] Believing Bart to be a bad role model, several American public schools banned T-shirts featuring Bart next to captions such as 'I'm Bart Simpson. Who the hell are you?' and 'Underachiever ('And proud of it, man!')'.[162][163][164]The Simpsons merchandise sold well and generated $2 billion in revenue during the first 14 months of sales.[162] Because of his popularity, Bart was often the most promoted member of the Simpson family in advertisements for the show, even for episodes in which he was not involved in the main plot.[165]
Due to the show's success, over the summer of 1990 the Fox Network decided to switch The Simpsons' time slot from 8:00 p.m. ET on Sunday night to the same time on Thursday, where it competed with The Cosby Show on NBC, the number one show at the time.[166][167] Through the summer, several news outlets published stories about the supposed 'Bill vs. Bart' rivalry.[161][166] 'Bart Gets an F' (season two, 1990) was the first episode to air against The Cosby Show, and it received a lower Nielsen ratings, tying for eighth behind The Cosby Show, which had an 18.5 rating. The rating is based on the number of household televisions that were tuned into the show, but Nielsen Media Research estimated that 33.6 million viewers watched the episode, making it the number one show in terms of actual viewers that week. At the time, it was the most watched episode in the history of the Fox Network,[168] and it is still the highest rated episode in the history of The Simpsons.[169] The show moved back to its Sunday slot in 1994 and has remained there ever since.[170]
The Simpsons has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics, and it has been noted for being described as 'the most irreverent and unapologetic show on the air.'[171] In a 1990 review of the show, Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly described it as 'the American family at its most complicated, drawn as simple cartoons. It's this neat paradox that makes millions of people turn away from the three big networks on Sunday nights to concentrate on The Simpsons.'[172] Tucker also described the show as a 'pop-cultural phenomenon, a prime-time cartoon show that appeals to the entire family.'[173]
Run length achievements
On February 9, 1997, The Simpsons surpassed The Flintstones with the episode 'The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show' as the longest-running prime-time animated series in the United States.[174] In 2004, The Simpsons replaced The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952 to 1966) as the longest-running sitcom (animated or live action) in the United States.[175] In 2009, The Simpsons surpassed The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet's record of 435 episodes and is now recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's longest running sitcom (in terms of episode count).[176][177] In October 2004, Scooby-Doo briefly overtook The Simpsons as the American animated show with the highest number of episodes (albeit under several different iterations).[178] However, network executives in April 2005 again cancelled Scooby-Doo, which finished with 371 episodes, and The Simpsons reclaimed the title with 378 episodes at the end of their seventeenth season.[179] In May 2007, The Simpsons reached their 400th episode at the end of the eighteenth season. While The Simpsons has the record for the number of episodes by an American animated show, other animated series have surpassed The Simpsons.[180] For example, the Japanese anime series Sazae-san has over 7,000 episodes to its credit.[180]
In 2009, Fox began a year-long celebration of the show titled 'Best. 20 Years. Ever.' to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the premiere of The Simpsons. One of the first parts of the celebration is the 'Unleash Your Yellow' contest in which entrants must design a poster for the show.[181] The celebration ended on January 10, 2010 (almost 20 years after 'Bart the Genius' aired on January 14, 1990), with The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!, a documentary special by documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock that examines the 'cultural phenomenon of The Simpsons'.[182][183]
As of the twenty-first season (2009–2010), The Simpsons became the longest-running American scripted primetime television series, having surpassed Gunsmoke. On April 29, 2018, The Simpsons also surpassed Gunsmoke's 635-episode count with the episode 'Forgive and Regret.'[175][184]
On February 6, 2019, it was announced that The Simpsons has been renewed for Seasons 31 and 32.[185]
Awards and accolades
The Simpsons has been awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Simpsons has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 31 Primetime Emmy Awards,[73] 30 Annie Awards[186] and a Peabody Award.[187] In a 1999 issue celebrating the 20th century's greatest achievements in arts and entertainment, Time magazine named The Simpsons the century's best television series.[188] In that same issue, Time included Bart Simpson in the Time 100, the publication's list of the century's 100 most influential people.[189] Bart was the only fictional character on the list. On January 14, 2000, the Simpsons were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[190] Also in 2000, Entertainment Weekly magazine TV critic Ken Tucker named The Simpsons the greatest television show of the 1990s. Furthermore, viewers of the UK television channel Channel 4 have voted The Simpsons at the top of two polls: 2001's 100 Greatest Kids' TV shows,[191] and 2005's The 100 Greatest Cartoons,[192] with Homer Simpson voted into first place in 2001's 100 Greatest TV Characters.[193] Homer also placed ninth on Entertainment Weekly's list of the '50 Greatest TV icons'.[194] In 2002, The Simpsons ranked #8 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time,[195] and was ranked the #6 cult show in 2004.[196] In 2007, it moved to #8 on TV Guide's cult shows list[197] and was included in Time's list of the '100 Best TV Shows of All Time'.[198] In 2008 the show was placed in first on Entertainment Weekly's 'Top 100 Shows of the Past 25 Years'.[199]Empire named it the greatest TV show of all time.[200] In 2010, Entertainment Weekly named Homer 'the greatest character of the last 20 years',[201] while in 2013 the Writers Guild of America listed The Simpsons as the 11th 'best written' series in television history.[202] In 2013, TV Guide ranked The Simpsons as the greatest TV cartoon of all time[203] and the tenth greatest show of all time.[204] A 2015 The Hollywood Reporter survey of 2,800 actors, producers, directors, and other industry people named it as their #10 favorite show.[205] In 2015, British newspaper The Telegraph named The Simpsons as one of the 10 best TV sitcoms of all time.[206] Television critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz ranked The Simpsons as the greatest American TV series of all time in their 2016 book TV (The Book).[207]
Criticism
Controversy
Bart's rebellious, bad boy nature, which underlies his misbehavior and rarely leads to any punishment, led some people to characterize him as a poor role model for children.[208][209] In schools, educators claimed that Bart was a 'threat to learning' because of his 'underachiever and proud of it' attitude and negative attitude regarding his education.[210] Others described him as 'egotistical, aggressive and mean-spirited'.[211] In a 1991 interview, Bill Cosby described Bart as a bad role model for children, calling him 'angry, confused, frustrated'. In response, Matt Groening said, 'That sums up Bart, all right. Most people are in a struggle to be normal [and] he thinks normal is very boring, and does things that others just wished they dare do.'[212] On January 27, 1992, then-President George H. W. Bush said, 'We are going to keep on trying to strengthen the American family, to make American families a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons.'[162] The writers rushed out a tongue-in-cheek reply in the form of a short segment which aired three days later before a rerun of 'Stark Raving Dad' in which Bart replied, 'Hey, we're just like the Waltons. We're praying for an end to the Depression, too.'[213][214]
Various episodes of the show have generated controversy. The Simpsons visit Australia in 'Bart vs. Australia' (season six, 1995) and Brazil in 'Blame It on Lisa' (season 13, 2002) and both episodes generated controversy and negative reaction in the visited countries.[215] In the latter case, Rio de Janeiro's tourist board—which claimed that the city was portrayed as having rampant street crime, kidnappings, slums, and monkey and rat infestations—went so far as to threaten Fox with legal action.[216] Groening was a fierce and vocal critic of the episode 'A Star Is Burns' (season six, 1995) which featured a crossover with The Critic. He felt that it was just an advertisement for The Critic, and that people would incorrectly associate the show with him. When he was unsuccessful in getting the episode pulled, he had his name removed from the credits and went public with his concerns, openly criticizing James L. Brooks and saying the episode 'violates the Simpsons' universe.' In response, Brooks said, 'I am furious with Matt, ... he's allowed his opinion, but airing this publicly in the press is going too far. ... his behavior right now is rotten.'[137][217]
'The Principal and the Pauper' (season nine, 1997) is one of the most controversial episodes of The Simpsons. Many fans and critics reacted negatively to the revelation that Seymour Skinner, a recurring character since the first season, was an impostor. The episode has been criticized by Groening and by Harry Shearer, who provides the voice of Skinner. In a 2001 interview, Shearer recalled that after reading the script, he told the writers, 'That's so wrong. You're taking something that an audience has built eight years or nine years of investment in and just tossed it in the trash can for no good reason, for a story we've done before with other characters. It's so arbitrary and gratuitous, and it's disrespectful to the audience.'[218]
Ban
The show has reportedly been taken off the air in several countries. China banned it from prime-time television in August 2006, 'in an effort to protect China's struggling animation studios.'[219] In 2008, Venezuela barred the show from airing on morning television as it was deemed 'unsuitable for children'.[220] The same year, several Russian Pentecostal churches demanded that The Simpsons, South Park and some other Western cartoons be removed from broadcast schedules 'for propaganda of various vices' and the broadcaster's license to be revoked. However, the court decision later dismissed this request.[221]
Declining quality
Critics' reviews of early Simpsons episodes praised the show for its sassy humor, wit, realism, and intelligence.[31][222] However, in the late 1990s, around the airing of season 10, the tone and emphasis of the show began to change. Some critics started calling the show 'tired'.[223] By 2000, some long-term fans had become disillusioned with the show, and pointed to its shift from character-driven plots to what they perceived as an overemphasis on zany antics.[224][225][226] Jim Schembri of The Sydney Morning Herald attributed the decline in quality to an abandonment of character-driven storylines in favor of and overuse of celebrity cameo appearances and references to popular culture. Schembri wrote: 'The central tragedy of The Simpsons is that it has gone from commanding attention to merely being attention-seeking. It began by proving that cartoon characters don't have to be caricatures; they can be invested with real emotions. Now the show has in essence fermented into a limp parody of itself. Memorable story arcs have been sacrificed for the sake of celebrity walk-ons and punchline-hungry dialogue.'[227]
In 2010, the BBC noted 'the common consensus is that The Simpsons' golden era ended after season nine',[9] and Todd Leopold of CNN, in an article looking at its perceived decline, stated 'for many fans ... the glory days are long past.'[226] Similarly, Tyler Wilson of Coeur d'Alene Press has referred to seasons one to nine as the show's 'golden age',[8] and Ian Nathan of Empire described the show's classic era as being 'say, the first ten seasons.'[10]Jon Heacock of LucidWorks stated that 'for the first ten years [seasons], the show was consistently at the top of its game', with 'so many moments, quotations, and references – both epic and obscure – that helped turn the Simpson family into the cultural icons that they remain to this day.'[11]
Mike Scully, who was showrunner during seasons nine through twelve, has been the subject of criticism.[228][229] Chris Suellentrop of Slate wrote that 'under Scully's tenure, The Simpsons became, well, a cartoon ... Episodes that once would have ended with Homer and Marge bicycling into the sunset now end with Homer blowing a tranquilizer dart into Marge's neck. The show's still funny, but it hasn't been touching in years.'[228] When asked in 2007 how the series' longevity is sustained, Scully joked: 'Lower your quality standards. Once you've done that you can go on forever.'[230]
Al Jean, showrunner since season thirteen, has also been the subject of criticism, with some arguing that the show has continued to decline in quality under his tenure. Former writers have complained that under Jean, the show is 'on auto-pilot', 'too sentimental', and the episodes are 'just being cranked out.' Some critics believe that the show has 'entered a steady decline under Jean and is no longer really funny.'[231] John Ortved, author of The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History, characterized the Jean era as 'toothless',[232] and criticized what he perceived as the show's increase in social and political commentary.[233] Jean responded: 'Well, it's possible that we've declined. But honestly, I've been here the whole time and I do remember in season two people saying, 'It's gone downhill.' If we'd listened to that then we would have stopped after episode 13. I'm glad we didn't.'[234]
In 2004, Harry Shearer criticized what he perceived as the show's declining quality: 'I rate the last three seasons as among the worst, so season four looks very good to me now.'[235]Dan Castellaneta responded: 'I don't agree, ... I think Harry's issue is that the show isn't as grounded as it was in the first three or four seasons, that it's gotten crazy or a little more madcap. I think it organically changes to stay fresh.'[236] Also in 2004 author Douglas Coupland described claims of declining quality in the series as 'hogwash', saying 'The Simpsons hasn't fumbled the ball in fourteen years, it's hardly likely to fumble it now.'[237] In an April 2006 interview, Groening said: 'I honestly don't see any end in sight. I think it's possible that the show will become too financially cumbersome ... but right now, the show is creatively, I think, as good or better than it's ever been. The animation is incredibly detailed and imaginative, and the stories do things that we haven't done before. So creatively there's no reason to quit.'[238]
In 2016, popular culture writer Anna Leszkiewicz suggested that even though The Simpsons still holds cultural relevance, contemporary appeal is only for the first ten seasons, with recent episodes only garnering mainstream attention when a favorite character from the golden era is killed off, or when new information and shock twists are given for old characters.[239] The series' ratings have also declined; while the first season enjoyed an average of 13.4 million viewing households per episode in the U.S.,[155] the twenty-first season had an average of 7.2 million viewers.[240]
Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz argued in their 2016 book titled TV (The Book) that the peak of The Simpsons are 'roughly seasons [three through twelve]', and that despite the decline, episodes from the later seasons such as 'Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind' and 'Holidays of Future Passed' could be considered on par with the earlier classic episodes, further stating that 'even if you want to call the show today a thin shadow of its former self, think about how mind-boggingly great its former self had to be for so-diminished a version to be watchable at all.'[241][242]
Apu controversy
The stereotypical nature of the character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon has long been the subject of controversy. This was particularly highlighted by Indian-American comedian Hari Kondabolu's 2017 documentary The Problem with Apu. In the film, Kondabolu states that as a child he was a fan of The Simpsons and liked Apu, but he now finds the character's stereotypical nature troublesome. Defenders of the character responded that the show is built on comical stereotypes, with creator Matt Groening saying, 'that's the nature of cartooning.'[243] He added that he was 'proud of what we do on the show', and 'it's a time in our culture where people love to pretend they're offended'.[244] In response to the controversy, Apu's voice actor, Hank Azaria, said he was willing to step aside from his role as Apu: 'The most important thing is to listen to South Asian people, Indian people in this country when they talk about what they feel and how they think about this character.'[245]
The criticisms were referenced in the season 29 episode 'No Good Read Goes Unpunished', when Lisa breaks the fourth wall and addresses the audience by saying, 'Something that started decades ago and was applauded and inoffensive is now politically incorrect. What can you do?' to which Marge replies, 'Some things will be addressed at a later date.' Lisa adds, 'If at all.' This reference was clarified by the fact that there was a framed photo of Apu with the caption on the photo saying 'Don't have a cow, Apu', a play on Bart's catchphrase 'Don't have a cow, man,' as well as the fact that Hindus do not eat cows as they are considered sacred. In October 2018, it was reported that Apu would be written out of the show,[246] however that report was later debunked by the producers.
The media
Comic books
Numerous Simpson-related comic books have been released over the years. So far, nine comic book series have been published by Bongo Comics since 1993.[247] The first comic strips based on The Simpsons appeared in 1991 in the magazine Simpsons Illustrated, which was a companion magazine to the show.[248] The comic strips were popular and a one-shot comic book titled Simpsons Comics and Stories, containing four different stories, was released in 1993 for the fans.[249] The book was a success and due to this, the creator of The Simpsons, Matt Groening, and his companions Bill Morrison, Mike Rote, Steve Vance and Cindy Vance created the publishing company Bongo Comics.[249] Issues of Simpsons Comics, Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror and Bart Simpson have been collected and reprinted in trade paperbacks in the United States by HarperCollins.[250][251][252]
Film
A Seattle7-Eleven store transformed into a Kwik-E-Mart as part of a promotion for The Simpsons Movie
20th Century Fox, Gracie Films, and Film Roman produced The Simpsons Movie, an animated film that was released on July 27, 2007.[253] The film was directed by long-time Simpsons producer David Silverman and written by a team of Simpsons writers comprising Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, Al Jean, George Meyer, Mike Reiss, John Swartzwelder, Jon Vitti, David Mirkin, Mike Scully, Matt Selman, and Ian Maxtone-Graham.[253] Production of the film occurred alongside continued writing of the series despite long-time claims by those involved in the show that a film would enter production only after the series had concluded.[253] There had been talk of a possible feature-length Simpsons film ever since the early seasons of the series. James L. Brooks originally thought that the story of the episode 'Kamp Krusty' was suitable for a film, but he encountered difficulties in trying to expand the script to feature-length.[254] For a long time, difficulties such as lack of a suitable story and an already fully engaged crew of writers delayed the project.[238]
On August 10, 2018, 20th Century Fox announced that a sequel is in development.[255]
Music
Collections of original music featured in the series have been released on the albums Songs in the Key of Springfield, Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons and The Simpsons: Testify.[256] Several songs have been recorded with the purpose of a single or album release and have not been featured on the show. The album The Simpsons Sing the Blues was released in September 1990 and was a success, peaking at #3 on the Billboard 200[257] and becoming certified 2× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.[258] The first single from the album was the pop rap song 'Do the Bartman', performed by Nancy Cartwright and released on November 20, 1990. The song was written by Michael Jackson, although he did not receive any credit.[259]The Yellow Album was released in 1998, but received poor reception and did not chart in any country.[260][261][262]
The Simpsons Ride
The Simpsons Ride at Universal Studios Florida.
In 2007, it was officially announced that The Simpsons Ride, a simulator ride, would be implemented into the Universal Studios Orlando and Universal Studios Hollywood.[263] It officially opened May 15, 2008 in Florida[264] and May 19, 2008, in Hollywood.[265] In the ride, patrons are introduced to a cartoon theme park called Krustyland built by Krusty the Clown. However, Sideshow Bob is loose from prison to get revenge on Krusty and the Simpson family.[266] It features more than 24 regular characters from The Simpsons and features the voices of the regular cast members, as well as Pamela Hayden, Russi Taylor and Kelsey Grammer.[267]Harry Shearer did not participate in the ride, so none of his characters have vocal parts.[268]
Video games
Numerous video games based on the show have been produced. Some of the early games include Konami's arcade gameThe Simpsons (1991) and Acclaim Entertainment's The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants (1991).[269][270] More modern games include The Simpsons: Road Rage (2001), The Simpsons: Hit & Run (2003) and The Simpsons Game (2007).[271][272][273]Electronic Arts, which produced The Simpsons Game, has owned the exclusive rights to create video games based on the show since 2005.[274] In 2010, they released a game called The Simpsons Arcade for iOS.[275] Another EA-produced mobile game, Tapped Out, was released in 2012 for iOS users, then in 2013 for Android and Kindle users.[276][277][278] Two Simpsonspinball machines have been produced: one that was available briefly after the first season, and another in 2007, both out of production.[279]
Syndication and streaming availability
The cable television network FXX has exclusive cable and digital syndication rights for The Simpsons. Original contracts had previously stated that syndication rights for The Simpsons would not be sold to cable until the series conclusion, at a time when cable syndication deals were highly rare. The series has been syndicated to local broadcast stations in nearly all markets throughout the United States since September 1993.[280]
FXX premiered The Simpsons on their network on August 21, 2014 by starting a twelve-day marathon which featured the first 552 episodes (every single episode that had already been released at the time) aired chronologically, including The Simpsons Movie, which FX Networks had already owned the rights to air. It was the longest continuous marathon in the history of television (until VH1 Classic aired a 433-hour, nineteen-day, marathon of Saturday Night Live in 2015; celebrating that program's 40th anniversary).[281][282] The first day of the marathon was the highest rated broadcast day in the history of the network so far, the ratings more than tripled that those of regular prime time programming for FXX.[283] Ratings during the first six nights of the marathon grew night after night, with the network ranking within the top 5 networks in basic cable each night.[284]
On October 21, 2014, a digital service courtesy of the FXNOW app, called Simpsons World, launched. Simpsons World has every episode of the series accessible to authenticated FX subscribers, and is available on game consoles such as Xbox One, streaming devices such as Roku and Apple TV, and online via web browser.[285][286] There was early criticism of both wrong aspect ratios for earlier episodes and the length of commercial breaks on the streaming service, but there are now fewer commercial breaks during individual episodes.[287] Later it was announced that Simpsons World would now let users watch all of the SD episodes in their original format.[288]
In July 2017, all episodes from seasons 4 to 19 were made available for purchase on the iTunes Store, in Canada.[289]
The series will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+, with all thirty seasons, when the service launches on November 12, 2019.[290]
The season 3 premiere 'Stark Raving Dad', which features Michael Jackson as the voice of Leon Kompowsky, was pulled out of rotation in 2019 by Groening, James L. Brooks and Al Jean after HBO aired the documentary Leaving Neverland, in which two men share details into how Jackson allegedly abused them as children.[291][292] However, the episode is still available on The Complete Third Season DVD box set released on August 26, 2003.[293]
On May 14, 2019, it was announced that FX Networks would share The Simpsons with Freeform starting September 2019.[294]
Merchandise
The popularity of The Simpsons has made it a billion-dollar merchandising industry.[162] The title family and supporting characters appear on everything from T-shirts to posters. The Simpsons has been used as a theme for special editions of well-known board games, including Clue, Scrabble, Monopoly, Operation, and The Game of Life, as well as the trivia games What Would Homer Do? and Simpsons Jeopardy!. Several card games such as trump cards and The Simpsons Trading Card Game have also been released. Many official or unofficial Simpsons books such as episode guides have been published. Many episodes of the show have been released on DVD and VHS over the years. When the first season DVD was released in 2001, it quickly became the best-selling television DVD in history, although it was later overtaken by the first season of Chappelle's Show.[295] In particular, seasons one through seventeen were released on DVD for 13 years between September 2001 to December 2014 in the U.S./Canada (Region 1), Europe (Region 2) and Australia/New Zealand/Latin America (Region 4). However, on April 19, 2015, Al Jean announced that the Season 17 DVD would be the last one ever produced, leaving the collection from Season 1 to 17, Season 20 (released out of order in 2010), with Seasons 18, 19, and 21 onwards unreleased.[296][297] Jean also stated that the deleted scenes and commentary would try to be released to the Simpsons World app, and that they were pushing for Simpsons World to be expanded outside of the U.S.[296] Two years later, however, on July 22, 2017, it was announced that Season 18 would be released on December 5, 2017 on DVD.[298] Another two years later, on July 20, 2019, it was announced that Season 19 will be released on December 3, 2019 on DVD.[299]
In 2003, about 500 companies around the world were licensed to use Simpsons characters in their advertising.[300] As a promotion for The Simpsons Movie, twelve 7-Eleven stores were transformed into Kwik-E-Marts and sold The Simpsons related products. These included 'Buzz Cola', 'Krusty-O' cereal, pink doughnuts with sprinkles, and 'Squishees'.[301]
In 2008 consumers around the world spent $750 million on merchandise related to The Simpsons, with half of the amount originating from the United States. By 2009, 20th Century Fox had greatly increased merchandising efforts.[302] On April 9, 2009, the United States Postal Service unveiled a series of five 44-cent stamps featuring Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, to commemorate the show's twentieth anniversary.[303]The Simpsons is the first television series still in production to receive this recognition.[304][305] The stamps, designed by Matt Groening, were made available for purchase on May 7, 2009.[306] Approximately one billion were printed, but only 318 million were sold, costing the Postal Service $1.2 million.[307][308]
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Notes
- ^Animation for the series is outsourced to Klasky Csupo for seasons 1-3, Film Roman from Seasons 4-27 and Fox Television Animation from Seasons 28 onwards.
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Further reading
- Brown, Alan; Logan, Chris (2006). The Psychology of The Simpsons. Benbella Books. ISBN978-1-932100-70-9.
- Gray, Jonathan (2006). Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality. Routledge. ISBN978-0-415-36202-3.
- Hoffmann, Frank W.; Bailey, William G. (1994). Fashion and Merchandising Fads. Routledge. ISBN978-1-56024-376-2.
- Irwin, William; Conrad, Mark T.; Skoble, Aeon (1999). The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer. Open Court. ISBN978-0-8126-9433-8.
- Keller, Beth L. (1992). The Gospel According to Bart: Examining the Religious Elements of The Simpsons. Regent University. ISBN978-0-8126-9433-8.
- Keslowitz, Steven (2003). The Simpsons And Society: An Analysis Of Our Favorite Family And Its Influence In Contemporary Society. Hats Off Books. ISBN978-1-58736-253-8.
- Pinsky, Mark I (2001). The Gospel According to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of the World's Most Animated Family. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN978-0-664-22419-6.
- Pinsky, Mark I.; Parvin, Samuel F. (2002). The Gospel According to the Simpsons: Leaders Guide for Group Study. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN978-0-664-22590-2.
- Singh, Simon (2013). The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets. ISBN978-1-62040-277-1.
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- 47Help request: 101 Estonia articles needing geographical coordinates
Constitution of Estonia
I object to the choice of the source for the constitution (see Talk:Constitution of Estonia). The other source is better as to the terminology. Andres 10:25, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
- If the other source is better for terminology, it probably makes no difference - I cannot copy and paste or use identical words in any case. Additionally, the format of the constitution article will probably be changing; I'm laying out a skeleton now, and will be changing it to resemble the United States Constitution, as this is a featured article. I will look at your source, though. I didn't get a chance to yesterday; parts of the US lost power and I have a 100 page paper to do. Srose(talk) 13:14, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Question
Does anyone know of any Estonian news sources? I have a google news alert sent to me every time they list a story on Estonia, but google is somewhat biased towards US and British news. Srose(talk) 14:23, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
www.baltictimes.com is a good source. Martintg 10:20, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
http://www.topix.net/world/estonia is a source, but I can't yet say how good it is. There is also http://www.estoniatimes.com/ -- the content seems to be almost the same. Eesti Elu ( http://www.eesti.ca/ ) - an Estonian newspaper in Toronto - has some pages in English.
Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 17:00, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:59, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Bilateral relations discussion
I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at this thread regarding bilateral relations between two countries. All articles related to foreign relations between countries are now under the scope of WikiProject Foreign relations, a newly created project. We hope that the discussion will result in a more clean and organized way of explaining such relationships. Thank you. Ed¿Cómo estás? 18:36, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Romeo
Hello, Estonia!
Why was Romeo, a disambiguation page, given one of your project templates? I've removed it, but if there's a reason for it, perhaps you could explain at the talk page? AndyJones 12:15, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry, my bad - apparently script got the wrong page. Thanks for removing it. DLX 12:21, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
- Super, thanks. AndyJones 12:41, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Eesti Maapäeva Nõukogu
Hi guys, it seems we have a little situation here. 'Eesti Maapäeva Nõukogu', the one that issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence on 24 February 1918 is also translated as Estonian National Council, at least thats the way it is on President of Estonia web page. http://www.president.ee/en/estonia/will do some research to sort it out but it seems since it's on the president web page, it's official and our Swedish Estonian friends would need to come up with a new aricle on wiki, I'd suggest Estonian National Council in Sweden. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Termer (talk • contribs) 11:20, 25 June 2007
WP-EE awards for best contributors...
Since we have recently had some great contributions from some users I felt it would be great if we had a some sort of (semi)official recognition award for them. so I drew this:
Please let me know what you think...--Alexia Death 12:46, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
- I like the look of the award. Andres 10:17, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
- So do I. How does it scale? Typical barnstars are smaller.
- Aga Suur Papist Kuldauraha kuluks ka ära. Tegelikult vist isegi kaks; Vesipruule leiab Wikipediast Tatikaist rohkem. Digwuren 16:50, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
- It is a svg. It scales perfectly by nature:) example:
- --Alexia Death 17:22, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
- BTW: Size can be made to indicate rank.
- I like it. Tipp-topp. biggins 02:48, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
- The image looks very nice and the idea of the WPE barnstar is great. However, to avoid confusion, only one size should be used - for example, some editors with many barnstars keep them in a table, displaying only a small image and link. Most used size for barnstar images seems to be around 110x110 to 128x128. Alexia, would you design rest of the barnstar template as well?
- And Digwuren: no. Wikipedia does not work that way.
DLX 06:53, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
- Digwurren: honey not vinegar ;)
- DLX: I can do it if you pont my nose to the right direction in making templates... Ive never done one...--Alexia Death 10:32, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
I've never done any as well, except minor changes - but Help:Template is what you need, I think. DLX 15:57, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
- Looking good! the only thought I have is regarding possible symbolism. The way Hirundo is heading down-backwards from-right-to-left direction might symbolize pessimism even though the line of action is vertically upwards, the head is directed lower and down. There is directional symbolism in every culture and in the western tradition as we read from right to left, every picture has a meaning how silhouettes are directed according to it. it might look weird though in case the head was directed up-right. But I'd play around with it and see if you could get it saying, we going forward and higher instead of back&down like the silhouette of the bird is telling me now.--Termer 16:10, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
- Is it better now?--Alexia Death 18:29, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
- this is my template making test
- Looking good! the only thought I have is regarding possible symbolism. The way Hirundo is heading down-backwards from-right-to-left direction might symbolize pessimism even though the line of action is vertically upwards, the head is directed lower and down. There is directional symbolism in every culture and in the western tradition as we read from right to left, every picture has a meaning how silhouettes are directed according to it. it might look weird though in case the head was directed up-right. But I'd play around with it and see if you could get it saying, we going forward and higher instead of back&down like the silhouette of the bird is telling me now.--Termer 16:10, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
moved below
- --Alexia Death 19:01, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
- This template making is easyer than I thought. feel free to improve ;)
- Template:Wp-ee contrib award , heres a shortcut to the template for you.--Alexia Death 19:20, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Wou, flying upwards looks much better then I expected. I love it! There are 2 little things that I'm not too sure of. I'd try how it looks if the wings had some air between the circle. Now they are just about touching it. Usually you'd leave some space there or vice versa, overlap the shapes I think. The distance should be perhaps similar to the white spaces between the leaves for ex of a third or 2 thirds of it. And perhaps, the flag up there, if it wasnt as wide as the circle itself maybe wouldn't feel that “heavy” up there and would make a nice offset perhaps if it was a little narrower. See if you have time to play around with those 2 things if you think it's worth it. Otherwise looking much better i think.--Termer 07:20, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
- I know I am too fond of shadows, and I am designer with bad taste, but here are my mods: :)
- The look of the award is very good! good job! but the scales could maybe also tell what are the differences of the different sizes and why one person gets bigger size award than the other. i think it could be explained within the award. Also, i think the different sizes are good. they just need explanations. Avjoska 08:47, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
- I like the shadows on the lower part but I tend to to agree with Digwurren on the flag. Ill do something with it and lets see how that goes. --Alexia Death 21:14, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
- Thats looking good indeed! maybe the swallow ended up a bit too small, I might scale it up just a bit but other than that, very nice! Shadows and highlights are also nicely added!--Termer 09:27, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
- I like the shadow effect on the round part, but it looks somehow 'dirty' on the upper, flag part. Digwuren 17:56, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
..But then again, instead of scaling the swallow up a bit , you might choose to do something with this plain white circle now, anyway, I'm sure you know what I mean. Good Work!--Termer 09:32, 26 June 2007 (UTC)...OK, just one more idea. What if the shadows and highlights were added horizontally to the flag part. Now the blue and white are curving separately. If horizontal then it would simplify it a bit the flag would remain more like a one shape. Anyway, just a thought...--Termer 09:37, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
How about this?--Alexia Death 21:56, 27 June 2007 (UTC)Hi Alexia, if it was up to me, out of the last 2 versions, I'd choose the previous one.-Termer
- I prefer the latter one; largely due to the 'dirty look' issue I moaned about above. Digwuren 08:43, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello Alexia, there must be thousands of Barn-star designs, so I wouldn't agonise over the design of one award. I like them all. Martintg 23:42, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi Alexia, once you're on it, I'd request another one from you. 'Outstanding Soviet Censor Barn-star' for editors that have pushed the Soviet POV the most on articles related to the Baltic countries. I have a coupler of editors on my list already that I think have earned it big time...--Termer 08:57, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
- I think I know who you mean... But, alas, someone can take that the wrong way... Like as an encouragement to keep going :P...--Alexia Death 18:49, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
So lets declare this current form of the image final? Any suggestions for template or is it time to give it out to people?--Alexia Death 18:49, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
WP-EE award template discussion
Sample:
Award of the Soaring Swallow to {{{recipient}}} for outstanding contributions to Estonia-related articles {{{date}}} from WikiProject Estonia |
- I think that barnstar should have a fixed width and somewhat more informative message - perhaps also separate image and text part of the barnstar? I'd like to fool around with the layout a bit tomorrow, if you don't mind? DLX 20:29, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
- the template is yours to mess with:)--Alexia Death 10:40, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks, did some changes... used (crappy) HTML, though. I am most definitely not dead set on this design, especially colors - but it does stand out better, imho. DLX 11:11, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
- I agree. Ill take a look at it too.--Alexia Death 12:07, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
- What do you think of the changes?--Alexia Death 12:16, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
- Looks very nice, the rounding was a bit overkill - and would have been visible only on Mozilla-based browsers anyway. DLX 13:42, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks, did some changes... used (crappy) HTML, though. I am most definitely not dead set on this design, especially colors - but it does stand out better, imho. DLX 11:11, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
- the template is yours to mess with:)--Alexia Death 10:40, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
- I think that barnstar should have a fixed width and somewhat more informative message - perhaps also separate image and text part of the barnstar? I'd like to fool around with the layout a bit tomorrow, if you don't mind? DLX 20:29, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Reviving Effort of the Month
While cleaning up the project page, I thought about Effort of the Month section. I think it would be a good idea to start doing those again - with the goal of getting one article every month to featured article status, or, if that is perhaps an overkill, at least try to get one article every month to be listed as good article. Also, perhaps we could do an 'Effort of the Week' type things where we try to get newly created articles to Did you know section - and, I do think we should try to get some Estonia-related pictures to featured status as well.
Now, as for current (July 2007) candidate - Estonia in World War II by Termer (talk·contribs) - that seems to be perhaps best candidate for WP:DYK (we have until 8th July to nominate it) and later it has a good chance for WP:GA or WP:FA. It needs cleaning up and expanding a bit (especially wikifying), but Termer has done an excellent work with it.
And as for the month of August - I noticed that we don't have an article Culture of Estonia, which, imho, is badly needed - as a sort of main article about all the stubs/articles about theaters, movies, bands etc, but also giving a historical overview of Estonian culture.
DLX 06:20, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Translation of vald
The Estonian vald should be translated as Municipality. Commune is not justified. Andres 21:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
If I am right then the titles and mentions should be changed. Andres 21:39, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
- I'm not a native speaker (my grandfather is); I only speak a little Estonian, so I think I'll take you at your word. If no one has any objections, I think I'll turn all of the 'communes' into 'municipalities'. Srose(talk) 13:34, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
- In fact, 'vald' translates in this context as 'rural municipality'. There are two types of 'local goverments' in Estonia: 'rural municipalities' and 'cities' (in the constitution translation you are using: 'districts' and 'towns'). However, it's seems to be more natural to use 'Municipality' instead of 'Rural Municipality' in the names of the rural municipalities.
- Earlier, here in the English Wikipedia, 'Parish' was used, but 'parish' is the counterpart of 'kihelkond', a traditional unit. 'Commune' is a unit of local government in general.
- So, it's my opinion that 'Municipality' is better. This a translation problem for English speakers, not for Estonian speakers. In the web, there are instances of both 'municipality', 'rural municipality', 'commune' and 'parish'. Andres 18:14, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
- Probably the variants (except for 'parish', which is ambiguous between 'vald' and 'kihelkond') should be redirects. Andres 18:15, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Probably the best nomenclature would have it as: Valjala Rural Municipality. It's the most unambiguous way, as sometimes a rural municipality and a city have coinciding names. Andres 10:32, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
- I think Shire is the correct English term for Rural Muncipality. Martintg 10:20, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
- I believe Avjoska is taking care of the commune-to-municipality changes. Srose(talk) 13:14, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Maybe it would be best to use the Estonian word 'vald' untranslated? Rain74 21:41, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
The official translation (see for example English translation of Local Government Organisation Act) is Rural Municipality. Local government in Estonia consists of Rural Municipalities and Cities. Kevin Ehaver 194.126.101.135 08:05, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
(Discussion moved from project page)
Perhaps the translator of the Local Government organisation Act had a Canadian connection, some provinces call them Rural municipality, apparently. Another online dictionary has vald<->parish [1], [2]Martintg 11:52, 27 June 2007 (UTC)According to my Estonian-English Dictionary by Paul F. Saagpakk:- vald 1.parish (= civil parish); (suure kihelkonna alajaotus) township; commune; 2. (võim) power;
'Parish' as a description of a civil administrative unit is archaic. The only correct term here is 'rural municipality' because we are not dealing with a legal term as such. The term 'vald' belongs to the Estonian state administration and they have decided on the English translation. For example, the only translation in English of 'Eesti Päästeamet' is 'Estonian Rescue Board' despite the fact that a more sensible word to replace 'Board' would be 'Agency' or 'Authority'. If the official translation used is unclear an explanatory sentence can be added but, in the case of 'Rural Municipality', this is in my view not necessary. Kevin Ehaver 84.50.91.222 13:34, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
- Okay, I've corresponded with an linguist based at Helsinki University and he basically confirms we must stick with the official translation regardless if the words are being used unusually in standard english. He cites a similar situation in Finnish, where the official translation of 'kunta' as municipality and rural municipalities are thus officially translated as 'non-urban municipalities'. So what in your view be preferable as an article title: Xxxxxx Rural Municipality or Rural Municipality of Xxxxxx, or can we just name it Xxxxxx Municipality and add 'Rural' as a qualifier if there is also an urban municipaility of the same name? Martintg 02:34, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
- Kummalisel kombel on kõik Lääne-Viru valladcommune'ideks tõlgitud. Artiklid paistavad olemas olevat ainult Kadrina Commune'i ja Tapa Commune'i jaoks. Seda tõlketava ei paista muudes maakondades järgitavat; võimalik, et Lääne-Viru artikliseeria autor on saanud olulisi mõjutusi Rootsi administratiivjaotusest.
- Ilmselgelt on niimoodi paha. Tuleks välja töötada üks ilus terminisüsteem ja seda konsistentselt kasutada. Praegu paistab domineeriv 'valla' tõlge olevat rural municipality, mis on omamoodi jabur, aga võrdlemisi täpne. Kadrina Commune ja Tapa Commune paistab olevat mõistlik ümber nimetada / mergeda Kadrina'ks ja Tapa'ks; teine on natuke problemaatilisem, kui esimene. Edasise diskussiooni jaoks on tõenäoliselt kõige mõistlikum koht Talk:Lääne-Viru County. Digwuren 17:11, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
- Ma olen kusakilt kuulnud ka tõlget 'vald'='parish'.--Staberinde 15:17, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
- Iseenesest pole paha, aga kas see pigem et:kihelkond ei ole?
- Teine tore alternatiiv, aga vist mitte eriti populaarne, on townland. Digwuren 15:23, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
- Ma olen kusakilt kuulnud ka tõlget 'vald'='parish'.--Staberinde 15:17, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Outside view, taken from Talk:Vaivara Commune, I hope that Martintg has not anything aganist being quoted by me:
- I think 'parish' is the correct english word for 'vald' [3][4], 'parish' is certainly used in England and Australia in the context of a rural municipality. Martintg 05:57, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
--.Staberinde 16:25, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
- I'll take parish as the concensus, and will over time systematically change all the different variants accordingly. I'll keep the existing 'Foovara Commune' pages as redirects. Digwuren 12:03, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
The official translation (see for example English translation of Local Government Organisation Act) is Rural Municipality. Local government in Estonia consists of Rural Municipalities and Cities. As an Estonian Civil Servant I always used 'municipality' because it is shorter, specifying 'rural' where the context demanded it. Kevin Ehaver 194.126.101.134 07:49, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
- Moved to talk page. Martintg 02:31, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
yep, I've heard that Commune is a dirty word in Estonian that makes people's faces flashing red, so it's not such a good idea to used it.--Termer 09:15, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Well, on a big public map on the island of Muhu it said Muhu parish. Parish is a word that implies, that the municipal unit is formed around a church, witch may be untrue in some cases, but i believe its a better translation than anything else...--Alexia Death 20:59, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
More formal approach giving out WP-EE awards?
Ive had an idea that perhaps we should take a bit more formal approach to giving out our award. I was thinking that having an official list of people who have been awarded with it along with the reason and a formal procedure for nominating a person for an award and requiring at least two more support votes from within the project would give the award more weight and value... What do you think? --Alexia Death 21:07, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
- It's an interesting idea. I especially like that such a system, unlike the common practice of barnstars, would promote these awards as a community consensus process. Hopefully, this would avoid award cheapening that has been somewhat of a problem with the common barnstars.
- In interests of symmetry, I would also propose a countering process: a project member can oppose any such award, and the awarding will not be done unless there are at least twice as many supporters as there are opponents. Digwuren 21:25, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
- I would go for at least three supporters. Also, users should be listed somewhere - probably section on main project page, with name and short explanation? Sander Säde 06:00, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
- It might get long there(hopefully). I think a subpage of project page with all the nominees over time would do. That page can then be linked along with last three award recipients on the main page and also linked from the award template allowing quick reference for official status of the award.--Alexia Death 06:24, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
- As no one disagrees with these rules - perhaps it is time to write them 'formally' down - barnstar template talk might be a good idea - and give Colchicum his barnstar? Sander Säde 18:40, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
- Ive set up the holders page here Wikipedia:WikiProject_EstoniaAward_of_the_Soaring_Swallow_holders. Now template needs to be adjusted with this link.
- As no one disagrees with these rules - perhaps it is time to write them 'formally' down - barnstar template talk might be a good idea - and give Colchicum his barnstar? Sander Säde 18:40, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
- It might get long there(hopefully). I think a subpage of project page with all the nominees over time would do. That page can then be linked along with last three award recipients on the main page and also linked from the award template allowing quick reference for official status of the award.--Alexia Death 06:24, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
- I would go for at least three supporters. Also, users should be listed somewhere - probably section on main project page, with name and short explanation? Sander Säde 06:00, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
Notice of Estonia-related RfD
This is a courtesy notice that there is an RfD discussion going on right now; Republic of Estonia (1918-1940) currently points at History of Estonia, and is the redirect up for discussion. See the 10 July 2007 RfD page, specifically the Republic of Estonia (1918-1940) → History of Estonia section. BigNate37(T) 19:38, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
President/State Elder
According to [[5]], it was determined in 1922 that the official translation of 'Riigivanem' is 'President'. Therefore shouldn't we merge State Elder of Estonia into President of Estonia and have State Elder of Estonia as a redirect? Martintg 02:50, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Taking requests for photos of objects in Estonia
I like to take weekend car trips and have a decent camera so if you need pictures of birthplaces, buildings, natural phenomena or anything else please ask. As I'm based in southern Estonia Those requests will get filled first.--Alexia Death 12:23, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
- I added appropriate heading to the main project page. Everyone who finds some image missing could report it there. Suva 12:36, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Coat of arms of Tallinn
It would be great if a speaker of Estonian would translate et:Tallinna vapp into English. Based on the images I've seen, the lions (or leopards) of Tallinn seem to be crowned while the similar figures in the coat of arms of Estonia don't wear crowns. Has this distinction always existed? There is more information on http://www.tallinn.ee/est/g2673 Thanks in advance for any help. ValentinianT / C 16:52, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
- Ive translated it as Coat of arms of Tallinn, but I dont know how to move the pictures...--Alexia Death 19:46, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
- Download and upload. We also need SVG version of that. The PNG version is not sufficient. Anyone up for some tracing? :) Suva 19:54, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
- Ive translated it as Coat of arms of Tallinn, but I dont know how to move the pictures...--Alexia Death 19:46, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
- Aren't the images already on Commons? In that case we can link directly to those images from here, but yes, SVGs would be nice. I've tried to copyedit the text, and I hope the meaning survived. :) ValentinianT / C 20:20, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Estonian Football
Can someone please have a look at Special:Contributions/Akqj? This new user has produced articles on a number of Estonian football teams and I have no desire to see them deleted (I'm about to decline a speedy on HK Talinna) but the articles themselves can't survive in the state they are in. Is it possible for some kind soul to help Akqj work through this? I'll also cross post this at wikiproject football. Thanks. SpartazHumbug! 22:33, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
- I think the articles are actually about ice hockey, not football. I saw them and tagged them as well, however, I have no knowledge whatsoever about ice hockey, so perhaps someone more knowledgeable can assess the notability of those articles? Sander Säde 23:11, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Award nomination: Colchicum (talk·contribs)
I would like to nominate Colchicum for the Soaring Swallow Award for his excellent work on Wikipedia:WikiProject Estonia. Obviously, the awarding itself would be pending until the rules get worked out. This should be a case so obvious I hope finding two (and perhaps more) seconders won't be hard. Digwuren 21:30, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
- Supported. Sander Säde 04:50, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
- Supported :) --Alexia Death 05:13, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
- Supported E.J. 07:34, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
- Supported Suva 05:34, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
This has been delayed for almost three weeks. I'll hand the award now, on behalf of WikiProject Estonia. Digwuren 15:24, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
- It has been done: User talk:Colchicum#Award of the Soaring Swallow. I tweaked the template a bit, too, to fit more information. Digwuren 15:59, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Estonian language translations
Hello WP-EE! I edit several language Wikipedia and also trade translation services on Cucumis.org, where I translate from several European languages into English, and I obtain high-quality translations by others for use on Wikipedia. Cucumis.org needs translators fluent in Estonian. Particularly Estonian -> English and English -> Estonian. (Most translators can work well in only one direction.) If you want to help us, or obtain our help, please join us here. Thanks! --Una Smith 14:57, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Estonian-Italian speaking users?
Hello, everybody. I'm a user from the Italian Wikipedia. I'm here to ask whether there are users who are able to speak in Estonian and Italian. If not, maybe you can still help us writing, in english, in my user page or in the deletion page of the voice Valle Kutsherla, the page we are trying to save. It's about a vallery called Kutsherla or Kucerla or... we-don't-know ^^ We can't find infos using google, maybe you could tell us something more about it. Thank you, --Ginosal 23:33, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
- Followup: I identified the valley in question as that of the river Kucherla (Russian: Кучерла, Estonian: Kutšerla) in the mountains of Altai. Apparently, the confusion on Italian Wikipedia was caused by a critical source being transliterated through Estonian. I do not know if it helped, but I suspect not, as it:Valle Kutsherla appears to be deleted. Digwuren 10:52, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Might be useful...
Itching for Eestimaa: Let's Change the Topic, Shall We? How to talk with Russian nationalists. Might be useful for discussions here in WP.... Sander Säde 17:37, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
The two templates?
Hi! How are the two different templates meant to be used? The one linked to from under 'Tasks', and the one described under 'Templates'. I wanted to label Bernhard Schmidt as part of WikiProject Estonia, and got confused. Which template to use when? Reimgild 07:43, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
- Hello -- you should always use {{WikiProject_Estonia}} template, the other is an old template, adding that won't include the article to WP:E article list. I changed the link under 'Tasks' and also replaced the template on Bernhard Schmidt.
- BTW, we are getting very close to 1700 articles tagged with WP:E. Sander Säde 08:09, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Thank you! Reimgild 10:48, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Terminology of administrative units — suitable to discuss here?
A central, authoritative table of English terminology to use (here in Wikipedia) for administrative units of Estonia would be a useful thing.
Some time ago, I made quite many changes — corrections, I thought — from 'Commune' to 'Parish', according to the mentioned consensus on Talk:Municipalities of Estonia. Today, when doing a few more such changes, I happened to look at Talk:Municipalities of Estonia again, and found that the consensus was lately disputed (by two anonymous users, but referring to an authoritative body). The main problem raised there was that 'Parish' might be more useful for kihelkond, and that vald would then need some other translation, perhaps 'Municipality', which would be in line with using e.g. Sollentuna Municipality for what in Swedish is called Sollentuna kommun (where Commune would actually also sound natural). At about the same time, I found another pretty large set of articles — Category:Villages in Estonia — where the word 'Commune' is used frequently. Before going on with correcting them, I would like to feel assured that Parish is the consensus. I have not really found any discussion leading up to the consensus, but only the mention of 'consensus' on Talk:Municipalities of Estonia.
Perhaps here — the Talk page of WikiProject Estonia — would be a good place to discuss not only 'Parish', but all administrative units at once? Then this would be the place to refer to (from other talk pages, and in edit comments later on). Or would this discussion be too big to keep at one place? Subdiscussions on different terms could well arise and be quite long. However, to keep at least the results of the discussions here (or somewhere), as a central table of terms, would be useful.
Let's perhaps first meta-discuss the topic here in this section — i.e. let's discuss here whether it is suitable to discuss the terminology of all administrative units here. If the answer seems to become 'yes', then the actual discussion could be under a new header, for example simply 'Terminology of administrative units'. Reimgild 06:53, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Some pages that relate to this discussion:- Counties of Estonia—Preceding unsigned comment added by Reimgild (talk • contribs) 07:04, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
- vald 1.parish (= civil parish); (suure kihelkonna alajaotus) township; commune; 2. (võim) power;
Laulev revolutsioon
Laulev revolutsioon on ühest küljest Eesti ajaloo seisukohalt väga oluline sündmus, teisest küljest multidistsiplinaarne ja sadu, kui mitte tuhandeid artikleid hõlmav ning kolmandast küljest puudutab ka teisi Balti riike. Kas nende kriteeriumite põhjal on mõistlik eraldi WikiProjekt sisse seada? Digwuren 14:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Project tags on categories
See all WP:E articles. We have quite a lot of categories tagged with WP:E tag (easy to see, as thanks to the script they have redlink talk pages), but I am unsure if these should be included to project or not. Any ideas, comments or suggestions? Sander Säde 11:46, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
- Resolved by tagging them as Category-Class Estonia articles. -- Sander Säde 08:35, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Question
An editor posed a question at Talk:Long_and_short_scales#Estonia about your country's choice of numbering systems. Thoughts? MrZaiustalk 11:59, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
- Answered the question in the article.H2ppyme 20:00, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Award nomination: Termer (talk·contribs)
I am hereby nominating Termer for the Soaring Swallow Award for his excellent work on Wikipedia:WikiProject Estonia. Digwuren 14:49, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
- Supported His always sourced contributions sorely need recognition.--Alexia Death the Grey 15:38, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
- Support to be honest, he is one of the few editors in wikipedia who really cares about sources. Suva 10:29, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
- Support, he deserves recognition for his excellent efforts. Martintg 12:23, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
- Support per above. More than month has passed, isn't it high time someone presented the award? Oth 11:31, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
- Awarded the barnstar, apparently it was just forgotten due to the ArbCom mess. Sorry! -- Sander Säde 06:26, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Narova
Is there such a people? Thanks--victor falk 23:24, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Bloomfield articles and the Signpost
Per SEWilco's prompting on my talk page, I thought I'd note here, for the benefit of those who may not be aware of it, that the Wikipedia Signpost has been tipped about a number of recent and ongoing AfD debates regarding Estonia-related articles created by Bloomfield and his sockpuppets. It's possible that something on the subject might appear in an upcoming issue of the Signpost. If you have some information that you feel might be useful to the Signpost editors, you can mention it on the page linked to above. (Disclaimer: I'm not in any way connected with the Signpost, and in fact I'm only tangentially involved in the whole issue here.) —Ilmari Karonen(talk) 21:03, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
Vanatühi
There's an ongoing discussion on the deletion of the Vabatühi article, and your input would be of value. Cheers, Ouro(blah blah) 11:48, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
Portal:Estonia
Hi everyone, just to let you know I've been working on the Estonian Portal and introduced lots of new sections. Hopefully this will draw in editors to the WikiProject and showcase off some of the good work being done by its members. If anyone has any suggestions for the selected article, selected picture or 'selected biography then feel free to bring it up on the relevant section of the portal. Many thanks, Seaserpent85 16:47, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
House of Representatives of Ethnic Minorities of Estonia
Hey, there seems to be some sort of group named like that which makes strong claims and publishes long essays in russian language media. What is the legal status of this organisation? I can't find any references on it in business registers or even a decent homepage. How can 'House of Representatives' be not registered anywhere, who does it actually represent that way? Either way RJ CG seems to know a lot about it. Maybe he can answer the question. SuvaЧего? 10:07, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Flag of Governorate of Estonia ??
I have noticed that recently the flag was [10] removed from the article Governorate of Estonia with the summary A bogus flag?. Still the flag is present on both Commons commons:Image:Eestimaa värvid.svg and Estonian wiki et:Pilt:Eestimaa värvid.svg. I was not able to find references to that flag outside the wiki space. AFAIK governorates of Russian Empire did not have official flags.
Can somebody research the topic. If it is a hoax the images should be deleted from commons and et-wiki. If the image is historical it probably desrves a few words in the Governorate of Estonia article (even if not the official flag of the governorate) Alex Bakharev (talk) 10:17, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Resurrected articles
Estonia 1990-1991, Soviet Republic of Soldiers and Fortress-Builders of Nargen -- weren't these deleted some time ago? First one created originally by Petri Krohn or both? Oth (talk) 19:33, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
- Yes. I placed a speedy delete template for the first article, it is a recreation of the one deleted in Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Republic_of_Estonia_(1990-1991) and redirected the second to Naissaar, per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Soviet Republic of NaissaarMartintg (talk) 20:21, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Draft Guidelines for Lists of companies by country - Feedback Requested
Within WikiProject Companies I am trying to establish guidelines for all Lists of companies by country, the implementation of which would hopefully ensure a minimum quality standard and level of consistency across all of these related but currently disparate articles. The ultimate goal is the improvement of these articles to Featured List status. As a WikiProject that currently has one of these lists within your scope, I would really appreciate your feedback! You can find the draft guidelines here. Thanks for your help as we look to build consensus and improve Wikipedia! - Richc80 (talk) 21:21, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
GO Rail
I've just created an article for this company, which runs sleeper trains between Estonia and Russia. I'm quite a new member, and this is my biggest contribution so far, so if anyone wants to have a look and maybe improve it please do!!
Don't ask me why I chose this subject... I've been to Estonia last month and was browsing just now, bored on a quiet day at work, and this redlink grabbed me. I can't read Estonian myself, so I'm sure you guys can add more, but I hope it's useful so far. I've posted this to WP:RR too. — FIRE!in a crowded theatre... 16:51, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Interested in Estonia
I'm not from Estonia, but I have recently developed an interest in Estonia, particularly medicinal plants. Flora of Estonia category is very useful.141.156.189.143 (talk) 15:48, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tõnu Trubetsky
You will probably be interested in this mass AfD. This is a deep-rooted self-promotion by user:Bloomfield. I am sure more of his Estonian band & film articles are out there. Renata (talk) 14:41, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
- Please pay attention to the articles Tõnu Trubetsky and Vennaskond. They need due references, or else they could be deleted. Andres (talk) 05:45, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
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Articles flagged for cleanup
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Soviet and post-Soviet films task force
Just thought that the community would like to know that WikiProject Films has a established a Soviet and post-Soviet cinema task force. Interested editors are encouraged to join onboard! Thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 21:45, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Proposed Baltic cinema task force
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Tallinn Conservatory
Hello all I am a member of the opera wikiproject and I was wondering if any of you would be interested in creating a page on the Tallinn Conservatory. The school has produced many famous musicians and composers over the years. Most of the important Estonian composers came out of the school. I can't find any references in English to the history of the conservatory so I thought I would bring it here. Perhaps some of you have access to sources in other languages and would be willing to create the article. Thank you.Nrswanson (talk) 17:26, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
- I updated the Tallinn Conservatory with a redirect.--Termer (talk) 18:13, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Estonia
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Workers sport organisation?
Anyone got a clue what is the name of the Estonian organisation mentioned on http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH2001/JSH2801/JSH2801d.pdf, page 24? --Soman (talk) 18:46, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Discussion about Holocaust
Our agreement is that Holocaust scholars are speaking about 'only' 6 Holocaust Extermination camps (stupid definition but ....). Our disagreement is about creation of sub section other extermination camps. With knowledge that there has been many others extermination camps and sites (I know 7 of them) question is: Will we create subsection in The Holocaust template for this camps ? Can you please hear your comments about this question in section Non involved users because maybe even Estonia will have place in rewriten template (events in 1941)?--Rjecina (talk) 15:34, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
Help request: 101 Estonia articles needing geographical coordinates
Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Estonia, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Estonia, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.
The articles in question are listed in Category:Estonia articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:
...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 101 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.
Why add coordinates?
By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and in many other ways. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps' Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth, and Wikipedia's own internal map service. Coordinate data also helps readers looking for geographically-based data, such as locations near a reference point, or related information.
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Estonian wiki transwiki
Hi. I've created Category:Estonian articles needing translation with the aim of transferring some of the more notable Estonian articles into English. Please help create missing articles from Estonian wiki and help translate them into English. If you know any articles which require Estonian translation or who want to help create articles to be translated please use a {{Expand Estonian}} tag at the top of the article. It is part of a drive to dramatically improve inter wiki content. Thankyou.Count Blofeld 12:33, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
- I'm sure you and AlbertHerring meant well while creating the stubs and the category for English Wikipedia. Just that, perhaps it's just me but few names seem notable on the list. In any case I think there would be much higher priorities, there are much more notable Estonian articles that would need to be created, for example even August Weizenberg[11], the founder of professional Estonian sculpting is still missing. There is a book published by Kevin O'Connor, a North American specialist on Estonian and Baltic cultures and histories Culture and Customs of the Baltic StatesISBN0313331251 , the book can be useful for anybody who's interested in the subject and wants to determine who and what would be notable for WP purposes from those tiny countries.--Termer (talk) 04:52, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
- I've updated the most notable names on the list with sources printed in English. I think that WP:RS should be still the general foundation for WP:Notability instead of getting anything translated straight from Estonian Wikipedia.--Termer (talk) 09:15, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Oil shale in Estonia
I hope that after some additional work, the Oil shale in Estonia article would be ready for the GA nomination. Any assistance to improve this article is welcome. Beagel (talk) 16:24, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Paul Kogerman
For the main page DYK, the Paul Kogerman article needs a reference about his deportation to the prison camp in Sverdlovsk Oblast in 1941 (please see discussion here. Thank you for your help. Beagel (talk) 18:34, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
Lasva Parish
Anyone up to translating this so it can be deleted from WP:PNT? I'd greatly appreciate any help you can provide. Suur tänu! -Yupik (talk) 02:45, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
- Actually I ended up commenting out the Estonian in this article, but it's still there awaiting translation, it's just not visible any longer. So the request still stands, but it's not as urgent any more :) Tänan! -Yupik (talk) 02:58, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
Vormsi enn - could somebody with Estonian language skills take a look at this article
Could you confirm notability in Estonia, possibly adding references. Please reply at the talk page there. Power.corrupts (talk) 16:00, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Parishes
It seems that parish is used for 'vald'. Then how are we going to translate 'kihelkond'? Andres (talk) 07:25, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
In English vald rarely gets translated as parish.
according to Estonia and the Estonians By Toivo U. Raun ISBN0817928529 it says
- (kihelkond) -parish, (German: Kirchspiel, Russian: prikhod)
- (vald) -township, rural township (German: Gemeinde, Russian: volost)
Historical Dictionary of Estonia By Toivo Miljan
- (kihelkond) -parish
- (vald) - equivalent to the Scandinavian commune or the North American township, the basic unit of local government
--Termer (talk) 14:48, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
- My proposal is rural municipality and Municipality (in names) for vald and parish for kihelkond.
- In Estonia, both municipality and parish are used in English for vald. In any case we need disambiguating and redirects but we'll be in trouble with kihelkond if we don't reserve parish for it. Andres (talk) 11:18, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
- When translating Estonian vald into Finnish, it is translated as kunta, which is then in English municipality. Right now parish and municipality seem to be being randomly assigned, so some consensus on this is going to have to be reached, preferably soon. -Yupik (talk) 02:43, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
Why do we Wikipedia writers not talk to professionals about these things? (E.g. geographers and historians?). A lot is going lost here. Municipality is such an all-encompassing and ugly expression, it is as though we were using a meat cleaver. In my youth, and I go back a few years, 'municipality' smacked of urban things, of cities. Vald is fairly new, kihelkond is very old and has loads of ancient meaning and additional context. In any event, a township seems closer to a kihelkond than what is being offered here. While I bring no solutions, there are many old words in other languages referring to not just local government but local affiliations such as 'shire' in the UK and 'gau' in the Germanic areas. Before one locks in some sort of rush-rush and ugly modern phrase that doesn't take everything into account, one should consult with the experts. By the way, parish has been used a lot to mean 'vald'. To simply resort to 'municipality' for a rural area seems to me like a forced solution that doesn't take into account all historical complexities. Possibly this - to drop everything and to adopt 'muncipalities' for country administrative areas - might be a ham-fisted solution that would meet the approval of the bad guys in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'.
--Sean Maleter (talk) 16:09, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
PS: The current counties in Estonia more or less (very roughly) correspond to the ancient states or tribal areas of Estonia (such as Ugandi). Instead of speaking of bland municipalities, one could let this remain in force as a concept, because 'county' in tandem with 'parish' helps people not familiar with Estonia get a feel for size and also for hierarchical relations. There were less 'kihelkonds' in the old days (some forty or fifty) compared to the 'valds' of recent history (several hundred), but other than villages and other really grass-roots groupings of families/extended families, both the kihelkond and the vald have been the really local level at which people gathered on the commons. Consequently, there is no reason one shouldn't call call both the vald and the kihelkond a parish, as smaller than, and more local-level than the county.
County and parish give useful information. County: smaller that the country. Parish: many in a county.
Kihel is an old word meaning to bind or to control. The original 'kihelkonnad' of the ancient Estonians had to do first with blood ties and also with the need to mutually defend the territory. These kihelkonnad had a leader.
The word 'kihel' supposedly comes from the German 'geisel' or hostage, and has to do with hostage-taking in a 'guarantor of taxes to be paid' sense. As living collateral, if you will. To take and exchange hostages was a common form of medieval personal surety. One person wouild be deprived of liberty by a second person in order to guarantee an undertaking by a third person (usually meaning nobility, that is to say the local heavies). Such 'hostage bindings' appear in the early medieval sources in the context of relations between political entities. This was something more than a simple means for securing agreements. Grants of hostages might have involved individuals who went beyond the original arrangement of creditor–debtor–hostage. Eventually they would come to transcend their immediate guaranteeing function, to also serve symbolic and political ends. There are many known examples of this from France and Italy and other parts of Europe. This can be seen in a whole series of contexts: military, legal, and also social as well as political relations.
--Sean Maleter (talk) 16:52, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
PPS: rather than the Toivo Raun version - 'kirchspiel' - try instead: 'kihelkond' with the word 'kihel' coming from 'geisel' = hostage from the Middle High German - 'gîsel', lat. obses.
Vald - this adminstrative structure still exists now. Kihelkond is sadly no longer in use. Parish could really be used for both, with an explanation where necessary, which won't be too often. Municipality and rural municipality are not only sterile and can cause confusion (urban or rural?) , parish always being rural. Municipality besides being boring contain less useful information than the word parish, in several respects.
--Sean Maleter (talk) 17:09, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Publishing House ERSEN
Hi, this looks like a very good Estonian company with a poor article, it is up for deletion, the website is more or less written in the Estonian language, it needs attention from a native speaker. --Mr Accountable (talk) 06:06, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
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Name question
Hi guys, I was wondering if a person born in Estonian SSR (more in general, I'd like to know in Baltic SSRs) was born in Estonian customs (Latin script, without Patronymic) or in Russian customs (Cyrillic script, with Patronymic). I think it's a very interesting issue about Soviet culture and how Soviet Union delt with minorities and local languages, but I can't find infos anywhere. Thank you! --necronudist (talk) 12:09, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Well, as I have heard quite a lot about this from my parents, I can answer you. First, officially, the passports were both in Estonian (yes, still Latin script) and Russian (Estonian in Estonian SSR only of course), and both had the father's name in there. In Russian, it was more logically constructed, but since it wasn't an Estonian custom, it only said 'His son' (e.g. 'Tõnu's son'). Estonian names sometimes made it difficult to pronounce them correctly in Russian, for example 'forname, Tõnuyevich, surname', but the estonian Õ was actually then Russian Ы. Same went with umlauts, don't know about Ü or Ö, but Ä was replaced with Я, which spells like 'Ya', instead of German-like Æ. This means that both my parents' names had a stupid spelling, instead of 'Mänd' there was 'Myand' and instead of 'Määrits' there was 'Myayarits'. That's how thingse were...H2ppyme (talk) 16:37, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you H2ppyme, but I asked about births not passports... Well, I don't know if it was the same! :-) So at those times people born with both Russian and Estonian names... You say passports were both in Estonian and Russian, so it was something like 'Name: Mänd / Мянд', etc... Have I understood well? :-) --necronudist (talk) 17:07, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Well, they were the same names, Estonian names, but with sometimes strange transliteration. And I think it depended on the local SSR, not on nationality. This means Russians born in the Estonian SSR could have had an Estonian transliteration in the passport as well. On the other hand, I believe Estonians throughout the USSR propably had an Estonian name in their passport too, but I might be wrong. But this was all the official stuff, in reality, only people with really pro-russian/soviet views used paternal names in Estonia, and as it is today in Estonia, I believe it used to be quite the same - Russians are called by their actual name(s), not by their paternal names. And yes, you understood the passport name correctly, though I am not sure which language came first...H2ppyme (talk) 18:44, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you for your explanation H2ppyme! If birth docs were in Estonian+Russian, that's why I don't see any nowadays-Estonian born in Estonian SSR with name in Russian pattern (Russian given name + Patronymic + Surname). The only exception I can remember is footballer Valery Karpin, but maybe it's just because he chose Russian nationality after Soviet Union collapse. --necronudist (talk) 18:55, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Well, that's not a main reason why you don't see any nowadays-Estonian born in Estonian SSR with name in Russian pattern. In western countries the Soviet birth certificates given to Estonian citizens were invalid anyway. Since Estonia was occupied by Soviet Union , see Occupation of Baltic states, and western democracies didn't recognize the occupation de jure, after Estonia regained it's independence, the pre occupation citizenship law was restored and the only legal birth certificates for Estonian citizens were ones issued by the republic of Estonia.--Termer (talk) 19:32, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Of course de jure non-recognition means Soviet passports didn't mean anything to Estonians, since they, legally, still were Estonian citizens. But the question here was more about the 'official' Soviet era customs. About Valeri Karpin: I believe that he only has Patronymic in Russian texts, officially when he had Russian/Soviet passport. But since some of his ancestors were Estonians, he was eligible for Estonian citizenship. There was a fuss about it some time ago that Estonia doesn't allow Patronymics for ethnic Russians either, so he had to shorten his name too. H2ppyme (talk) 19:48, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- The use of patronyms during the Soviet era following the Russian tradition was common in official Soviet documents only, meaning birth certificates, internal passports that were bilingual. However, passports issued by the Soviets for international travel were in Russian and English, and those followed international standards, meaning used given name(s) and surname only, not patronyms.--Termer (talk) 20:06, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- I understand... it's a quite complicate issue for me! However, I just liked to know if, keeping the example, Valery Karpin was born Valeri Karpin or Валерий Георгиевич Карпин. As far as I've understood he was born both, something like Valeri Karpin / Валерий Карпин + son of Georg or something like. Sorry if I didn't explain well... --necronudist (talk) 20:14, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- It's not complicated really. Russians traditionally use their patronyms as a middle name. So in Russian it would be Валерий Георгиевич Карпин. In English (also in Estonian) however patronyms are not used, so in English and in Estonian it would be Valeri Karpin.--Termer (talk) 20:27, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Sure, but he was born in Estonian or in Russian...or in both customs? --necronudist (talk) 20:40, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- It's not complicated really. Russians traditionally use their patronyms as a middle name. So in Russian it would be Валерий Георгиевич Карпин. In English (also in Estonian) however patronyms are not used, so in English and in Estonian it would be Valeri Karpin.--Termer (talk) 20:27, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- I understand... it's a quite complicate issue for me! However, I just liked to know if, keeping the example, Valery Karpin was born Valeri Karpin or Валерий Георгиевич Карпин. As far as I've understood he was born both, something like Valeri Karpin / Валерий Карпин + son of Georg or something like. Sorry if I didn't explain well... --necronudist (talk) 20:14, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- The use of patronyms during the Soviet era following the Russian tradition was common in official Soviet documents only, meaning birth certificates, internal passports that were bilingual. However, passports issued by the Soviets for international travel were in Russian and English, and those followed international standards, meaning used given name(s) and surname only, not patronyms.--Termer (talk) 20:06, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Of course de jure non-recognition means Soviet passports didn't mean anything to Estonians, since they, legally, still were Estonian citizens. But the question here was more about the 'official' Soviet era customs. About Valeri Karpin: I believe that he only has Patronymic in Russian texts, officially when he had Russian/Soviet passport. But since some of his ancestors were Estonians, he was eligible for Estonian citizenship. There was a fuss about it some time ago that Estonia doesn't allow Patronymics for ethnic Russians either, so he had to shorten his name too. H2ppyme (talk) 19:48, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Well, that's not a main reason why you don't see any nowadays-Estonian born in Estonian SSR with name in Russian pattern. In western countries the Soviet birth certificates given to Estonian citizens were invalid anyway. Since Estonia was occupied by Soviet Union , see Occupation of Baltic states, and western democracies didn't recognize the occupation de jure, after Estonia regained it's independence, the pre occupation citizenship law was restored and the only legal birth certificates for Estonian citizens were ones issued by the republic of Estonia.--Termer (talk) 19:32, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you for your explanation H2ppyme! If birth docs were in Estonian+Russian, that's why I don't see any nowadays-Estonian born in Estonian SSR with name in Russian pattern (Russian given name + Patronymic + Surname). The only exception I can remember is footballer Valery Karpin, but maybe it's just because he chose Russian nationality after Soviet Union collapse. --necronudist (talk) 18:55, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Well, they were the same names, Estonian names, but with sometimes strange transliteration. And I think it depended on the local SSR, not on nationality. This means Russians born in the Estonian SSR could have had an Estonian transliteration in the passport as well. On the other hand, I believe Estonians throughout the USSR propably had an Estonian name in their passport too, but I might be wrong. But this was all the official stuff, in reality, only people with really pro-russian/soviet views used paternal names in Estonia, and as it is today in Estonia, I believe it used to be quite the same - Russians are called by their actual name(s), not by their paternal names. And yes, you understood the passport name correctly, though I am not sure which language came first...H2ppyme (talk) 18:44, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you H2ppyme, but I asked about births not passports... Well, I don't know if it was the same! :-) So at those times people born with both Russian and Estonian names... You say passports were both in Estonian and Russian, so it was something like 'Name: Mänd / Мянд', etc... Have I understood well? :-) --necronudist (talk) 17:07, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
I try to explain better: I've asked the same question in WP:LITHUANIA and Renata3 (talk·contribs) answered that fields were in both languages ('name', 'surname', etc...), but they were filled only in Lithuanian. So, for example, Benjaminas Zelkevičius was born this way, and Беньяминас Викторович Зелькявичус is only a Russian adaptation... --necronudist (talk) 20:46, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- So basically you're asking if the family considers themselves ethnic Russians or Estonians? I don't know. Other than that, I have no idea how someone could be born in 'both customs' unless it's a mixed Estonian-Russian marriage.--Termer (talk) 20:50, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- No, I'm asking if SSRs officers filled birth docs in Russian (the Soviet Union official language) or in local language (Estonian/Latvian/Lithuanian). --necronudist (talk) 20:53, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Like I already said, all Soviet official documents issued in Baltic Soviet Republics were bilingual, in Russian and local languages. However, all birth certificates issued by Soviet authorities to citizens of Estonia etc. have been considered invalid.--Termer (talk) 20:57, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- No, I'm asking if SSRs officers filled birth docs in Russian (the Soviet Union official language) or in local language (Estonian/Latvian/Lithuanian). --necronudist (talk) 20:53, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- So basically you're asking if the family considers themselves ethnic Russians or Estonians? I don't know. Other than that, I have no idea how someone could be born in 'both customs' unless it's a mixed Estonian-Russian marriage.--Termer (talk) 20:50, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Benjaminas Zelkevičius was not born in Soviet Union but in Reichskommissariat Ostland, see the birth date February 6, 1944, so his birth certificate most likely was also in German. That's why in this case Беньяминас Викторович Зелькявичус is only a Russian adaptation.--Termer (talk) 20:54, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
- Ups... you're right, Zelkevičius is not a good example. However, it was intended to stand for 'person born in Lithuanian SSR'. So, the answer to my question is that Valery Karpin was born both Valeri Karpin and Валерий Карпин (bilingual docs without patronymic as per H2ppyme very first answer). In every case... I think it would be a great addition to Names in the Russian Empire, Soviet Union and CIS countries. Oh, and thank you for your answers guys... I didn't mean to bring it so long... --necronudist (talk) 21:35, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Violations of policies in the article about Hannes Vanaküla
I put the article to the WP:BLPN but as all the sources are in Estonian I got an suggestion to come here.The shorter description about the problem is on the WP:BLPN under the section of Hannes Vanaküla
And my more detailed description about the violations of policies in the article is situated here on the talk page of the article Hannes Vanaküla under the section Violations of Policies. WorldReporter (talk) 02:48, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Anna Levandi
There is a dispute concerning the name of Anna Levandi. Anonymous user continues to remove her current name as also category Estonian sportspeople (she was Soviet figure skater, but at the same time she is Estonian coach), and reinserting incorrect information about her husband Allar Levandi. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.190.192.206 (talk) 06:28, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest
A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.
The Transhumanist 00:39, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Untagged Estonia-related articles
I remembered that I have a tool to check for untagged Estonia articles and run it - and boy, do we have a lot of untagged articles! Way more then I can easily check - close to 600 - so I am going to copy the list here and ask for your help. If possible, please tag these articles with {{WikiProject Estonia}} and assess their notability. If article is not about a notable subject, there is no point to keep it in the Wikipedia just because it is related to Estonia. Great many of the articles aren't really about Estonia, just have Estonia-related categories.
If you tag an article, please remove it from the list. I'll try to convert the tool into a web-based utility and make it available for everybody (although it needs to be run only every other week or so).
- -- Sander Säde 17:48, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
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Need an Estonian speaker
Could someone halfway fluent in Estonian drop Simka100 (talk·contribs) a friendly note? He (making an assumption, from the pages he put up) has made a couple of nonsense pages in Estonian here (ie claiming to be married to Jessica Alba). Normal teenage stuff -- my only concern is that if he doesn't speak English, the warnings he's received haven't gotten through. Thanks much!--Fabrictramp | talk to me 16:32, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
A simple question
Do you guys use the redirect class when assessing article quality? I ask specifically because of Estonian surname, if it helps. Cheers. lifebaka++ 23:10, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
The first theatre and actors in Estonia
What was the first theatre in Estonia with professional actors of both genders? Who is counted as the first professional actor and actress respectively? Thank you in advance for those who can answer! --Aciram (talk) 10:34, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
- The net say the first modern theatre in the country was founded in 1809. What was it called? And who were the first actors and actresses there? I am very interested in theatre history. I would be grateful if anyone could reply on my talkpage. Regards--Aciram (talk) 14:21, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
Eesti mõttelugu
This article has just been PRODded for lack of evidence of notability - if anyone thinks the article is worth saving, now is the time.HeartofaDog (talk) 13:14, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
- I think there is no point to keep it. The notability of the series is questionable even in Estonian context - if someone disagrees and wants to expand/recreate it, then let it be so. --Sander Säde 13:59, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Inclusion of Communist genocide as a high importance article?
Someone has tagged Communist genocide as high importance to WikiProject Estonia. There are two main problems with this:
- It's an article that hasn't survived AfDs, so much as crawled through them with no consensus. Those arguing for deletion variously see it as POV, content forking, OR or all three at once. In particular, the term genocide is seen as problematic. In other words, it's a bit odd that an article whose existence is disputed (and not by apologists) be treated as so important.
- The page is about to be retitled 'Mass Killings under Communist Regimes' (unless something very weird happens at the last minute in the discussion), probably with a focus on the mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s, the PRC in the cultural revolution and the Khmer Rouge, as that's where the RS making claims for a link between commnist ideology and large scale killings focusses. There isn't the RS that I'm aware of that makes a link between Soviet brutalities in Estonia and communist ideology per se - rather than simple imperialist/colonialist aggression. (Similarly, the brutal takeover of Tibet is a separate issue, as that is clearly a nationalist action rather than a communist one.)
I'm really not sure it's high importance. There are other articles which cover Estonia under Soviet rule.VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 02:56, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
- The way I see it 'high importance' by the WikiProject Estonia is well justified. After all, what's defined as the Communist/Soviet genocide in Estonia was not a simple imperialist/colonialist aggression but the Soviet brutalities in Estonia have been linked to the communist ideology per se. Or another way to put it, nobody in Estonia has blamed the suggested Russians/Russian imperialist/colonialist aggression for the Soviet atrocities but exclusively the Communist regime + the ideology in the Soviet Union and its Communist collaborators in Estonia. FFI please see Arnold_Meri#Involvement_in_deportation_and_the_charge_of_genocide and/or McCormack, T. 'Soviet genocide trials in the Baltic states, the relevance of international law'. Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law - 2004. pp. 388–409.. In case the article gets renamed 'Mass Killings under Communist Regimes' and as a result its going to exclude the related facts currently under the discussion, that's not a problem. An appropriate new article can be made in the future instead. In either way the article would have high importance for WikiProject Estonia.--Termer (talk) 05:22, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
PS. not related really but the brutal takeover of Tibet is a separate issue, as that is clearly a nationalist action rather than a communist one is an opinion. At the time when the destruction of Tibetan culture that's based on Buddhism is justified by the Communist ideology.--Termer (talk) 05:29, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
- You're talking about Soviet brutalities in Estonia. The yearbook article that you yourself cite does not seek to say that the repressions were the product of communist ideology. To treat 'Communist' and 'Soviet' as identical is simply wrong. It's like calling Operation Condor a capitalist genocide. No matter what point of view you want to get across, we have to stick with RS analyses.
- Your reference to Tibet I think shows that you have not grasped what most editors on the talkpage have been trying to communicate to you. No one is disputing that bad things happened under communist regimes. What is at dispute is whether those bad things happened because of the ideology of the regime. Under a communist system, everything is officially justified according to ideology - bunkum, of course, just as all sorts of US shenanigans in South America aren't anything to do with protecting a free way of life, or British actions in Africa and 'civilising' people. It's just ironic that you choose to believe the communists on that particular point. While the attempted destruction of Tibetan Buddhism is one thing which might be connectable to the ideology, the actual invasion itself is clearly based on Chinese nationalism.VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 05:49, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
There is no point in questioning my intelligence by claiming what I have not grasped. I'm well aware and see it all the time happening, the attempts to unlink the Communist regimes from the Communist ideology. It's nothing more or less than trying to sell a story of 'the Communist regimes were not run by 'true Communists and their ideology'. Bard my ignorance but the Communist regimes=ideology was well defined already by George Orwell's Animal Farm, and in case you do have something new on the subject since the book was published, please do not hesitate to educate me.--Termer (talk) 06:06, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
- I'm not questioning your intelligence (just your understanding of what other editors are trying to explain), but you are certainly claiming I'm doing this for POV reasons. I'm not; you have consistently failed to provide RS sourcing for your interpretation that actions by communist governments are always founded in communist ideology. George Orwell was writing a novel, which is not RS for history or political science. In any case, the book is about how unchecked power corrupts, not about how communism itself necessitates mass murder (note that it's when the animals become like capitalist humans that they become oppressive). You should read it some time ;-). Orwell, a democratic socialist was explicit that he saw totalitarianism as the problem, whether it came from communism or fascism, which he tended to see as two sides of the same coin.VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 06:19, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
OK, I think I finally got it! You don't question my intelligence, you just explain me that Orwell is not a WP:RS and say that I should read it some time. Thanks!--Termer (talk) 06:40, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
- Well, you did request educating. Thankfully, not re-educating. That wouldn't be WP:civil ;-).VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 06:49, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
- As I assessed the importance of the article as high, I explained some of my reasoning here. Cheers, Van der Hoorn(talk • contribs) 11:44, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
Mari Aakre
Could someone who knows Estonian, please comment on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mari Aakre? Voceditenore (talk) 12:45, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Article expansion
I was doing some recent BLP clean-up and came across the Endel Taniloo article. As it stands it is just a single sentence, however the Estonian Wikipedia article has much more content as well as a useable image. Is there any chance that one of the Estonian project members could translate some of the info over to the English wiki article? --Jezebel'sPonyoshhh 16:02, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
XA-180 (EST) and other Estonian military vehicles
Why is there a separate page for every type armored vehicle used in Kaitsevägi (Template:Armoured personnel carriers of Estonia)? None of these APC's are Estonian made, only used in Estonia and already have articles about them. I don't think there should be a separate articles to describe them. --Kyng (talk) 11:13, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- I agree, this is an unnecessary duplication and splitting of content. The mentioned articles should be merged and deleted. —Quibik (talk) 14:48, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
Wikimedia Eesti
The Estonian Chapter of Wikimedia is underway. See et:Vikipeedia:MTÜ Wikimedia Eesti. Wikipedists from Estonia are invited. Andres (talk) 07:08, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Ödenpäh, Rappin and Wrangelshof
Does anyone know the current names of Livonian Ödenpäh, Rappin and Wrangelshof? Please either contact me on my talk or disambiguate in the landowner section of the Carl Gustav Wrangel article. Thank you Skäpperöd (talk) 17:48, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Please monitor Estonia-related articles more carefully
As some of the WikiProject Estonia members are forced to stay away from Eastern European topics for a while, please step up your watchfulness. There is a lot of vandalism - and even worse, targeted attempts to falsify Estonia-related articles. You can easily monitor all WikiProject Estonia articles using this small script (requires Twinkle as well, enable it from your preferences → Gadgets). Ask help here or on my talk page, if you have any questions or problems. --Sander Säde 08:36, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
- Update: Twinkle no longer needed and public watchlist is located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Estonia/publicwatchlist. --Sander Säde 09:43, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
ETV tütarlastekoor
ETV tütarlastekoor There are Inconsistency in the article: 1th is not the truth. It may be 1st or 4th, 5th ... It is possible that the number is wrong or the “th” is wrong. I do not now what of that is wrong or true. Please check it. --Diwas (talk) 12:14, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
- It is indeed 1st. Fixed it and added a reference. Lipik (talk) 12:28, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
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Jaak Urmet
The biographical article of Estonian writer Jaak Urmet lacks sources and, as it stands, may fail WP:GNG. He's been categorised as an Estonian children's writer, but I can't find any evidence easily to support this (or the text in the article) and wondered whether someone over here could help.--Plad2 (talk) 06:23, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
- Update. The Estonian Literary Magazine interview link provided on the page does provide some support but it's not really enough.--Plad2 (talk) 06:27, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Stub templates
Maybe stub templates on the Project page should be updated, because on Category:Estonia stubs, there are lots of other templates too. Some other updates should be done also on the Project page, like requests. Pelmeen10 (talk) 14:41, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Photos required from Estonia
I am currently working on many various articles for which I require photos from around the world. I am currently requiring photos from Estonia for these articles, and I was hoping that this message would reach a photographer who can take the photos for me. The photos I currently require are listed at User:Russavia/Required_photos#.C2.A0Estonia. If any photographers can assist with this, I would be most appreciative. Please leave any comments or questions for me on my talk page at User_talk:Russavia as I am unlikely to read replies. Thanks in advance for any assistance which can be provided. Cheers, --RussaviaI'm chanting as we speak 01:27, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
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Wikimedia Eesti
Täna, 25. juulil, kell 17 toimub Tallinnas Kreutzwaldi 4 üliõpilaskondade liidu ruumes MTÜ Wikimedia Eesti asutamiskoosolek. Vaata et:Vikipeedia:Üldine arutelu#MTÜ asutamine. Andres (talk) 07:28, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Lake Peipsi-Pihkva
has been recently moved to Lake Peipus. Please express your opinion here. Materialscientist (talk) 07:53, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Kalev Ots and Ahti Mänd
Nominated for deletion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kalev Ots (2nd nomination). K731 (talk) 16:17, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Assistance needed with Eastern Europe
The Eastern Europe article is fraught with errors, mislabels and slanted facts as if much of it was written by ultraconservatives during the Cold War from an ethnocentric position. If you agree with that Estonia is a Central/Northern European state rather than a Soviet satellite, please assist in rewording/correcting the article lead and body. Gregorik (talk) 06:17, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Narva Power Plants
There is a discussion about splitting the Narva Power Plants article. Your comments are appreciated. Beagel (talk) 07:38, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Incorrect maps in Wiki Media related to Estonia(ns)
There's a lot of them, like these :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Early_Rus.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Khazarfall1.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Varangian_routes.png
ignoring the common accepted historic knowledge and seeding misinformation.
Someone with the knowledge about the mechanics of wiki should look in to it for damage repairs.
--62.65.192.84 (talk) 05:36, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Early_Rus.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Khazarfall1.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Varangian_routes.png
ignoring the common accepted historic knowledge and seeding misinformation.
Someone with the knowledge about the mechanics of wiki should look in to it for damage repairs.
--62.65.192.84 (talk) 05:36, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
bump--62.65.192.85 (talk) 14:53, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
- Okay, these maps need to be updated. You say there is a lot of them, could you assist by providing a full list. --Martin (talk) 18:22, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
Estonia articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 22:25, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
WikiProject cleanup listing
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:17, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
Template:Navy of Estonia
{{Navy of Estonia}} has been nominated for deletion. 65.94.45.209 (talk) 13:22, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
Photo request
For those of you in Tallinn, would anyone mind photographing the following?
- Estonian Air head office - Lennujaama tee 13 11101 Tallinn
Thank you,WhisperToMe (talk) 13:55, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
I think we should remove old requests (those with existing images). Pelmeen10 (talk) 22:02, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
To do list
I thought to do list is important, so I made Template:Estonia To-do. You can change it if you don't like it. Pelmeen10 (talk) 22:26, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Merge Wikipedia:WikiProject Estonian towns?
We have a similar WikiProject, Wikipedia:WikiProject Estonian towns, which is inactive. But I think we should make it a WP Estonia's taskforce. What do you think? Pelmeen10 (talk) 11:47, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
- Sounds like a good idea to me. --Martin (talk) 18:41, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Terminological question re boroughs
What is a borough (alev) in Estonia: How is it defined? How is it to be understood? Are they small towns (if so, what distinguishes boroughs from towns: population, ratable population, administration...?), or administrative divisions of cities, or something else entirely? Thanks. —Felix the Cassowary 12:07, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
Livonian War
The previous A class review was inconclusive, and suffered from a lack of input. I really hope to get the article to A class soon, and therefore if you'd like to comment on the current review (here) then please do so. The A class criteria, of which there are only five, can be found here. Even if you only look at one aspect, that would be great. Thanks, Grandiose(me, talk, contribs) 16:24, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
Biographies of torupill (Estonian bagpipe) players
There's only so much info scanned and online so far, but it was enough to get a few bio stubs going for players of the torupill.
- Aleksander Maaker: the last traditional player, hailing from the island of Hiiumaa
- Olev Roomet: a Soviet Estonian choir member who took up the pipes before Maaker died. My impression from other articles is that he was basically directed to by some folk organisation in the USSR to keep the tradition alive, presumably in that rather stilted formulaic style the Soviets applied to a lot of folk music.
- Ants Taul: took up the pipes in the 1970s and became the primary maker and player. Father of current torupill maker and player (as I understand, the most prominent one) Anders Taul. Anders has a great torupill website here: http://www.pillimeister.torupillitalu.ee/indexeng.php
If anyone has their hands on any additional resources that may be used to expand these, I would greatly appreciate the support. I have a few folks to email, including Anders Taul, so hope to get some more news clippings, yet-unscanned reference books, and maybe photos. MatthewVanitas (talk) 05:07, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
Diacritics RfC
Discussion is underway regarding the use of diacritics in proper nouns from languages such as Estonian. Comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)/Diacritics RfC. Prolog (talk) 19:24, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Estonia as place of birth in infoboxes
I want to invite all interested editors to express their view at a discussion taking place here: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biographies#Country of birth, for historic (and current) bios, part II. Best regards, FkpCascais (talk) 20:42, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Estonia will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Estonia's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:56, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Should the kannel (Estonian lap-harp) be spliced off of kantele (Finnish equivalent)?
If anyone wants to weigh in, we could use some opinions at Talk:Kantele as to whether these two instruments are substantively the same, or whether kannel should have its own article like the Latvian kokle and Lithuanian kankles. Thanks! MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:44, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
New article: Rural parliament
I have started a new article which deals with the Estonian rural parliament, among others. Please review, contribute and expand. Additional quality refs highly welcome. --Mais oui! (talk) 04:35, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
New article: Kannel (instrument)
Traditional small kannel
Just letting folks know I put up a new article on the Estonian kannel! MatthewVanitas (talk) 03:02, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Effort to reach consensus on Manual of Style concerning Baltic states-related articles
Hello, Just want to let you know, that an active discussion on how to reach consensus on a formalised Manual of Style concerning Baltic states-related articles is going on here: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Baltic states-related articles. Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥Work 16:28, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Category:Imperial Russian people by occupation
There is currently a discussion about possibly merging Category:Imperial Russian people by occupation to Category:Russian people by occupation. The person who made this porposal also wants to eliminate Category:Imperial Russian people and evidently make it also part of Category:Russian people. This would seem to have to effect of classifying Category:People from the Governorate of Estonia and Category:People from the Governorate of Livonia as Russian people. This conflating of past and present nationalities would seem to be relevant to the classification of many people connected with Estonia over the years. Your participation in the dissscusion especially to address the issue of how the Russian Empire is a distinct entity from modern Russia would be helpful.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:26, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Anti-fascism
Looking for help to remove propaganda at Anti-fascism#Estonia. User332572385 (talk) 07:01, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Estonian Wikipedia
Please see Wikipedia:Help desk#Urgent: The Estonian Wikipedia needs intervention now (version of 17:29, 29 May 2013).
—Wavelength (talk) 17:49, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
—Wavelength (talk) 17:49, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Sven Sester and other members of Estonia's parliament
Another editor has created an article on Sven Sester. It might be worthwhile for someone to create stubs on all current and past members of Estonia's parliament using the parliament's site and the electoral commission's site as references. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 20:16, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
{{Estonian dialects}}
Template:Estonian dialects(edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 06:08, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
{{Baltic states}}
Template:Baltic states(edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:48, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
{{Baltic Assembly}}
Template:Baltic Assembly(edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 15:09, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
Template:Coastal batteries of Estonia
Hello. I wanted to let you know that I have nominated this template for deletion. De728631 (talk) 02:39, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
Reassessment request
Could I have Supreme Court of Estonia reassessed, please?KKalve (talk) 19:27, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Popular pages tool update
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