Talk:List of fictional locations in The Simpsons

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Was there a name for the city in Kill the Alligator and Run. I remember the town flag but I can't remember if they ever said a name....Coasttocoast 20:40, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

why does Springfield Retirement Castle redirect here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.158.233.66 (talk) 17:01, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Fair use rationale for Image:Springfield space.jpg 2 Merger with List of businesses on The Simpsons 2.1 Undid merger due to GFDL concerns 3 New Location?

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Springfield space.jpg

Image:Springfield space.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:34, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

The image is unnecessary and doesn't provide a good view of Springfield's major landmarks. I'm going to remove it, which'll make it an "orphaned fair use" image. szyslak 10:28, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merger with List of businesses on The Simpsons

Someone merged that article with this one, I have undone this for the following reasons:

At this point the information I have provided may seem quite small but I intend to add more businesses to this list as there are heaps of businesses that have appeared on The Simpsons that I intend to add, all will have a reference to at least one episode once done. It is all just finding the time to add all this as what I have written so far took some time. Of course I was hoping others would add to this list since that is supposed to be the idea of the Wikipedia.

Also then there is the issue of the article it was merged into. This article is meant to be about the places seen in the Simpsons as in the towns in the Simpsons placing businesses doesn't fit into this. There is a separate article to do things like the media (TV stations, radio, newspaper) religion (names of churchs etc...) and education (the names of the Springfield schools) so why not a separate page for businesses seen in The Simpsons. I thought there may have been one already but after not finding one I decided to create one. My intentions are to break it into categories such as recurring businesses that appear almost every episode or quite often and once off or seldom seen businesses that are seen in just one episode or just a couple of episodes. I was even thinking of another section for non Springfield businesses that is the ones seen in other cities. Bhowden (talk) 09:11, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Undid merger due to GFDL concerns

I have undone the merger from List of businesses on The Simpsons for now. Since the article is being considered for deletion at the moment, the merged content in this article potentially violates the GNU Free Documentation License because if the debate ends in deletion, the edit history of the original article will not be preserved here. Let's discuss any potential merger at the AFD and wait for it to conclude before merging. szyslak 09:49, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New Location?

Should Costington's Department Store be added to this list? Jursey14 (talk) 02:58, 29 March 2008 (UTC)