Talk:Rudy (film)

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Contents 1 Director question 2 Avoid weasel phrases 3 Totally Useless Trivia 4 Supertramp 5 Quotes 6 rippedoff 7 Copyright violation 8 Fair use rationale for Image:Rudy2.jpg

[edit] Director question

When I saw it on TNT this weekend, there's also an Alan Smithee credit as director - the credit that was used for many years for someone who wants to disavow work on a film. Can anyone confirm that is correct? Schnu 03:47, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Hello. Wikipedia actually has an article on Alan Smithee and it would appear that you are correct.

i'm curious; what position did Rudy play? i've never caught the movie and if it's listed here i missed it completely. -anonymous non-member —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.19.213.251 (talk) 18:45, 9 November 2005

Rudy played cornerback in high school..."led the team in tackles," plays at ND random scout-team defensive positions —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.80.159.176 (talk) 02:41, 13 December 2005

[edit] Avoid weasel phrases

Conman33: Please avoid using weasel phrases. Statements like "The movie is often considered to be..." lack precision, evidence, and often "give the force of authority to a statement without letting the reader decide if the source of the opinion is reliable." If you can find evidence (reputable survey, for example), that Rudy is considered by viewers to be the best sports movie, then we can make such a claim in the article (with proper citation). --mtz206 22:32, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Totally Useless Trivia

I fail to see any point of including the paragraph regarding the high school band performance. This trivia is also omitted from IMDB, so that gives me a doubt as to its veracity. I don't think that it really adds anything, so I'm recommending it for deletion. Thoughts? Secretagentwang 20:23, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

I do not object to its deletion. Neither can I vouch for it, although do not wish to research it. I should add though, that such "Trivia" sections are very common for WP movie articles, so its inaneness of itself is not imperative justification for deletion. Neither do I have any intention of deleting it if you don't.

That said, it is trivia, and perhaps not even true. So feel free; there is a record here in Talk of our thoughts on the matter. Baccyak4H 18:53, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

As the person that wrote the trivia and one of the band members at the time, I can vouch for it. I don't know how I could prove it to you because it was obscure and just trivial. It might be on an old Warsaw High School band calendar from 1992. I thought it might add something to the article, but if not, no big deal. I thought it would be interesting for people around northern Indiana. -- Suso 14:00, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Supertramp

Is the song Rudy by Supertramp about this? http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858500532

--insertwackynamehere 00:10, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quotes

Shouldn't the large block of quotes be on WikiQuote? ---- GIGGAS2 08:04, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] rippedoff

this sounds rippedoff from ibmd, cauz it has taglines and quotes —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.199.75.182 (talk • contribs) 01:44, 28 March 2007.

Be aware that IMDB has "rippedoff" content from Wikipedia before. The content could have been used from IMDB or IMDB could have used the content from here. Chupper 20:25, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright violation

I removed content which included a copyright violation. It used content from the page at http://espn.go.com/page2/s/merron/021202.html. Unless the author and website release that content to the public domain, we can't use it on Wikipedia, even if we cite it. We can, however, rewrite it in our own words and cite it, if someone would be interested in doing that... Chupper 20:31, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Rudy2.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:27, 15 January 2008 (UTC)