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[edit] Headline text[[Media:Insert non-formatted text here]][[Image:'''Example.jpg'''hello everybody]]

[edit] Smileyworld?

reads like an ad. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.28.136.12 (talk) 05:27, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

You’re right, it’s way too sketchy. I deleted it. (Interested parties, check the archives.)

It didn’t just seem like an advertisement; it seemed like a veiled threat to anyone who would deign to use a smiley face without paying this creepy company. smileys are cool bitches They’re gone. Cherry Cotton (talk) 10:06, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Holy crap... that's horribly POV. Not to mention kinda creepy. Funny how it's back there when it's been deleted in January.167.1.143.100 (talk) 23:27, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Frownies

nooooo smile!

The bit about "frownies" is a joke, of course...

http://www.liemails.com/indexfr.htm (broken link)

This needs to be updated. --Larry

Thanks for having the explanation of Japanese smileys. That cleared up a lot of things for a lot of people, including me. ;-)

[edit] Only basic smileys useful

I wanted to provide some evidence to buttress my assertion that only the most basic smileys are really used with any frequency. I thought I would try performing a Google Groups search on some of the smileys, but apparently the punctuation marks confuse Google, as searches on

":-)"

and

";-)"

simply produce blank pages (no hit counts).

Are there any Google experts who know more about Google's search syntax and know how to ask Google to search for colon, hyphen, close-paren? Dpbsmith 23:14, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Duplicate

Doesn't this article duplicate a lot of material from emoticon. Look at the list of smilies, for example. Should this material be moved to emoticon or vice-versa? Should the two be merged and emoticon be made a redirect to Smiley? I hate to have two seperate articles that discuss the same thing differently. —Frecklefoot 17:17, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

You're absolutely right. IMHO all the content in "Smileys on the Internet" should be merged into Emoticon and be replaced with a link to Emoticon. Dpbsmith 17:26, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] British rave culture

I'm sure I remember the smiley being one of the major images attached to the rave/ecstacy culture in Britain in the early 90s. I think it was common (might still be) to have a smiley on one side of an E pill. -- Jim Regan 22:30, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

"Acid House" was definitely in the UK chart mainstream by the late '80s; you couldn't get away from it in the summer of '88. I've moved the time back accordingly. - Astatine 16:14, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Guy Smiley

Isn't there also a Muppet named "Guy Smiley"? I don't know much of his history, so I can't really contribute a lot, but if memory serves... - - Gingerkitteh

Yeah, there was -- Guy Smiley, dubbed America's favourite game show host.

[edit] ASCII

Why did they put the ☻ and ☺ in ASCII? See Code page 437 for what I mean. --Abdull 20:35, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] graemlins

An editor who wrote on Smiley (disambiguation)

Smileys are sometimes referred to as graemlins.

may have meant what they said, that "graemlin" is another word for smiley, in the article's sense, but this is not clear, especially since that would mean it belonged in Smiley, not where they put it in Smiley (disambiguation). Of course, whatever they meant, it needs verification.
--Jerzy•t 00:30, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Muhammed

Is this really necessary?

http://hodja.wordpress.com/2006/02/22/muhammed-smiley/

[edit] Disputed origins

Read this BBC article - it says many people claim to have created / propagated / designed the smiley. Is there any concrete evidence for the statements made in the article? - Bnitin 02:23, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

The first smiley face I ever saw was at a free rock concert in Laguna Beach, California, c. 1969 or 1970. The Brotherhood of Eternal Love distributed very large suckers made of Orange Sunshine LSD. These had smiley faces engraved on them. Some time later I noticed the more familiar version, which for some reason changed the color from orange to yellow.Frederick Dolan (talk) 18:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Wingdings smiley

Can the Wingdings smiley be included? It is the letter J in Wingdings font.

[edit] inhunt.com

Someone made a request at the Wikipedia: Abuse reports page to deal with the spamming by inhunt.com, although it was in poor and incorrect form. I took a look at the spamming that has taken place here and on the Emoticon article, and decided to make a proper abuse report, seen here. In my little investigation, I saw that this spamming was taking place from multiple IPs, which were registered to many places. Also, some of these IPs appeared to be making worthy contributions. I don't really have a clue if this is a bot or not, or what it exactly is doing to achieve this high rate of spamming. This is because I lack any advanced knowledge in the area of computers or internet. So if someone a little more knowledgable could take a look at this, and add a better sypnosis to my abuse report, that would be greatly appreciated by all. --Reaper X 19:04, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Okay, DavidHOzAu suggested that we get our good bot friend Tawkerbot2 involved, and ask to have inhunt.com added to it's spam blacklist. I did that, and Tawker did so. So hopefully they are gone for good! --Reaper X 02:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Supposed Australian Usage of Word

"Smiley is another name for curb stomping. In Australia, people commonly refer to it as a smiley due to the scars that are left after the act has occurred"

People commonly refer to it as a smiley? I am Australian, and I have never heard of this being used in this context. The only use of the word "smiley" is the same as everywhere else - the smiley face. Also this statement makes it sound as if curb stomping is a popular practice, as it supposedly has its own slang terminology - which it certainly is not - here or anywhere else.

203.51.151.156 13:33, 28 June 2006 (UTC)Nathan

I have never heard of curb stomping before I read it in this article. A smiley is always ;-) to everyone I know who uses the term. My opinion is to get rid of the reference to curb stomping; it is not a common usage and it is likely patent nonsense. --DavidHOzAu 05:00, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Smiley :-) article link

Someone found this article to be spam:

Extensive Smiley :-) article

I must say that I was really surprised to see someone think that way, I have worked my a** off to prepare article for the net.

Please review the link. Thanks, Borislav Dopudja 02:44, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Removing it wasn't necessarily an indication that it was a poorly written article, just that it is not appropriate for inclusion in this encyclopedia. Wikipedia is not a repository of links. --MichaelZimmer (talk) 11:49, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Smileys using computer keys

Should we limit these to those that appear to be smiling?Pendragon39 17:10, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] background of smilies

do we really need this? 206.248.139.177 07:22, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking the same, and went to read the talk-page to see if someone had discussed it. I don't think it adds anything to the article, and since I'm evidently not the only one, I have removed it. Alatius 19:51, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Origins

The Straight Dope article seems pretty authoritative. It has no mention of Franklin Loufrani. It also places the Spain brothers' creation at 1970, which would predate the current mention of Franklin Loufrani. The Franklin Loufrani paragraph is also unsourced. If no one can provide any further sourcing, I move that we delete this paragraph, which may well be self-serving advertising. Notmyrealname 20:54, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Since no source seems to be available, I'm deleting the following passages:

"However, Franklin Loufrani of London-based company SmileyWorld says he came up with the image in 1971 for a newspaper promotion in which he displayed his icon to highlight good news. He then started developing products using this logo as a brand. The logo and the name are trademarked by Franklin Loufrani across 100 countries for most classes of goods and services. His master licensee Smileyworld is developing products with licensed partners in industries such as clothing, accessories, home textiles, food and confectionery, stationery, toys, gift items, housewares, publishing and fragrances. In 1997, his son Nicolas Loufrani started developing hundreds of variations of the Smiley logo with many different moods and categories such as weather, occupations, countries, animals, objects and so forth. He also developed a character based version with a body, arms and legs. They were the first non-text based emoticons available to use on the web.[citation needed]"

"In 2005 Nicolas and Franklin Loufrani created the Smiley World association, a charity part of the SOS group and wholly financed by sales of Smiley products developed by Smileyworld Ltd and Smiley industries Ltd." Notmyrealname 16:54, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Left vs Right handed ASCII smileys

The article said "The two original text smileys, (-: to indicate a joke and )-: to mark things that are not a joke", and also "The reverse, or right-handed, smileys, :) have also gained popularity for being a way to avoid having text smileys converted to graphical representations".

According to http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm the original was in fact right-handed. Also, as far as I know, most programs will convert the right-handed but not left-handed versions. I've changed tho article to reflect this. ddickison 15:01, 3 August 2007 (UTC)


[edit] european smiley

this is off the wall, but do europeans tend to draw smiley's with a nose, as opposed to americans? for instance :-) vs. :)

I don't think that's just Europeans. I'm American and I've never EVER made a smiley like this -- :) RACiEPLeave a message! 23:09, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit]  :-( Despair, Inc's Frownies™

Hey, you guys are using a trademark without previous consent... OK, just kidding. Anyway, it's funny, but it's actually true. I think the "Frowny(tm)" episode deserves a section in this article. (http://www.beachbrowser.com/Archives/eVoid/Febuary-2001/Trademark-Frownie-Emoticon.htm) Any vote against? Eumedemito (talk) 04:39, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inarticulateness re Nirvana; whole Music section

_ _ This entry has no clear meaning; perhaps it is encyclopedic when restated & de-PoV'd by someone who knows something about Nirvana:

  • The band Nirvana used there own version of the smiley properly reflecting the easy going 80's smiley, and showing that things have changed.

For starters, presumably it could better begin

  • The band Nirvana used a smiley variation of its own devising ....

(Note that a band can be "they" when its members all act individually on behalf of the band, as in "they played 'Old Zip Coon'", but releasing a record they played on, or adopting a finshed graphic that some of them initially conceived, is not such a situation: the band, whether incorporated or legally established as a partnership or not, does (not do) things (thru the agency of suits at the label or the artist who renders the graphic and a band member who oversees that artist), beyond or without individual acts by the members.) It also probably should not go after an older one,

  • The band Blink-182 also used an altered smiley face with arrows (similar to Nirvana's) for the cover of their self-titled album in 2003.

as its contributor placed it, but immediately before it.
_ _ The whole section suffers, as these sections tend to, from

  1. growing mainly by tacking on the only entry that interests the contributor, at either the top or bottom,
  2. a jarring variation in style, and
  3. lack of encyclopedic info.

At the least, this discussion of the (possibly copyright or trademark protected) material sounds like exactly the sort of thing that the "discussion" provision in Fair use was intended to promote: the wording conveys almost nothing about the differences, in the absence of the images. So add suitably small images. Chronological ordering is also usually helpful (but in practice requires in the long term the addition of dates of introduction).
--Jerzy•t 05:14, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Who the h*ll is Ball ?

Topic starts off with Ball... Who is he? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Preroll (talk • contribs) 15:17, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Read the article! It says right there. --RACiEP (talk) 03:38, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Appearances of smiley

It looks like more than half of the article is devoted to where smileys appear or have appeared. This is out of control and must be pared down. Any thought before I remove most of it?Asher196 (talk) 02:36, 23 May 2008 (UTC)