Talk:Little Orphan Annie
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[edit] Stamp image copyvio
I've removed the Little Orphan Annie stamp image from this article because the standard license statement for USPS stamps is explicitly for illustrating the stamp and not its subject. The relevant text is:
- This image is of a United States postage stamp produced in 1978 or later. The copyright for it is owned by the United States Postal Service. It is believed that the use of postage stamps to illustrate the stamp in question (as opposed to the subject of the stamp) on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement.
(All emphasizing is part of the original Template:USPSstamp text.) We need a properly licensed image. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:43, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
- The image was restored by Gamaliel (who should have commented here about it). The unstated justification seems to come from mentioning the stamp release in the caption, which strikes me as more of a pretext. (This is something that should be described in the article, where its relevance to the article would be better examined.) We really should have a better image than a tiny postage stamp anyway, but I'm not going to push the point. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:25, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
What is the law on uploading images from comic strips to Wikipedia. I see quite a large number of images from comic books, but few from comic strips. Rick Norwood 14:51, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Orphant?
The link from James Whitcomb Riley to this page reads "Little Orphant Annie", and there is a comment in the markup saying that Orphant is not a typo. I certainly believe this is true, but could it perhaps be explained on the Annie article? Why is Orphant correct? I know I was tempted to go and change the link on the Riley page until I saw the comment. Lbbzman 12:49, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- This page has the complete poem.[1] I take "orphant" to be a colloquialism for "orphaned". The entire poem is written in dialect. Wahkeenah 13:19, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for the link. I'll probably incorporate some of the information about the poem in the main article. Lbbzman 18:01, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
It exists also a film Little Orphant Annie, 1918, see [2] phe 01:54, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Half tab
There was some discussion in recent edit summaries questioning the term Half tab. I'm not the one who added the term, but I did find the linked article. I don't care whether the term is reinserted or not... it's definitely not my area of expertise. Cheers, Lbbzman 20:31, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
- It was once linked to just plain "tab", which is of no use. The latest poster has directed it to another page that has to do with this subject. "Tab" in this context is short for "tabloid". I gotta tell ya, I feel enriched now. :) Wahkeenah 23:29, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Learn something new every day. Rick Norwood 23:51, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] WRONG!!!
I disagree with the assertion that Annie was based on the character from the poem. I remember reading an article once that said Harold Gray's original concept was for a strip about a boy named Little Orphan Otter, but the syndicate rep thought that sketch of the boy was too girlish, and suggested a revamp, with the boy becoming a girl, and the charcter renamed Annie. The syndicate guy had probably heard of the poem, which was about a black servent girl that told ghost stories, but it is a very, very big stretch to say that the comic strip was in any way based on the peom.--Drvanthorp 00:02, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
- It sounds like it would be more correct to say that the title was inspired, at least in part, by the poem. Wahkeenah 00:19, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
- I agree. Rick Norwood 14:18, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
