Talk:The Yes Men

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[edit] HUD

i'm sorry i don't have time to write this up at the moment (at work), but i've added links to their most recent jam on the page. probably not going to make any editors happy, but hey, it's there.

gba 22:49, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Done-ish. I wrote up what I found on Reuters, but like you, don't have time to read up more. I left in your links, feel free to expound. Janet13 16:41, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the cleanup on this section! 139.84.112.18 17:14, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] more...

wasn't the "Barbie Liberation Organization" started prior to their affiliation?

and isn't it part of "RTMark"?

http://www.rtmark.com/legacy/blo.html I guess it is. I'll move it to RTMark. Clubmarx | Talk 20:39, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
RTmark is another earlier project/vehicle/brand created by the same people. 139.84.112.18 17:15, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Names

Regarding some of names: the movie IDs Andy Bichlbaum as a former Maxis employee who inserted the queer easter egg into Simcopter...an incident that is attached to Servin's name. So I'm fairly certain that's him. [1][2]. As for Mike Bonanno, the film IDs him as a New Media professor, and most Google searches point to Igor, but too many news articles are down and I can't seem to find a decent link. If you want to change until a citation can be found, go right ahead.--Weebot 11:47, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Mike Bonanno and Igor Vamos are the same person. 139.84.112.18 17:16, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survivalball

Aren't these guys behind Survivaball too? --68.40.0.189 08:32, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] In regard to the episode in the introduction...

In the episode that is being alluded to in the second paragraph of the intro, the comments were not "enthusiastically received". The "Yes Men" were giving a speech in front of an apparently important meeting. The only thing that they could point to was that people were not jumping out of their seats in furious indignation and offense, but lets face it, these were educated professionals who would naturally want to keep their composure in front of their peers, we really cannot take that as an indication that anyone present actually supported what was facetiously being proposed.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 02:40, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I think this article is showing too much bias in favor of The Yes Men. I have two primary concerns. Firstly, this line: HUD has called this prank, which brought attention to the lack of affordable housing, a "cruel hoax". It seems to me that a better way of phrasing it would have been something to the effect of "which was intended to bring attention to the lack of affordable housing". Otherwise, the sentence is making a positive statement without anything to back it up. My other problem has to do with their Bopal Disaster prank. No mention is made of the criticizm and backlash that resulted. The people of Bopal heard the news from the BBC and rejoiced, only to be crushed when they found out it was all a prank. There was a lot of criticizm over the fact that The Yes Men got their hopes up for nothing. Unfortunately, I'm lost the links to cite that fact, but I know it to be true. Maybe somebody more informed than I can add that. In general, there really should be more criticizm of The Yes Men in this article. They are a controversial group whose actions specifically INVITE criticizm. There needs to be more mention of that.

[edit] Notability? Disambiguation?

I came here looking for an article on the term "yes men," and got, essentially, an advertisement for an unknown comedy group.

I'm not sure this is what Wikipedia should be about. 71.131.225.239 22:16, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Unknown to you, but after pulling the stunts they have on New Orleans and BBC, causing a considerable if temporary stock loss to a multinational corporation by their lonesome, infiltrating top-level financial conferences repeatedly and receiving international media attention, they're likely known to a whole lot of people. I'd say that this is exactly what Wikipedia should be about - with ridiculous amounts of manpower and negligible "printing costs" (says everyone except those who are trying to finance the site), there are few restrictions on the scope of our coverage of noteworthy things.
As for ambiguity, that's a good point. A disambiguation link should be added as soon as the article on actual yes-men is rewritten into something less embarassing. --Kizor 20:07, 28 May 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Bhopal

It's interesting that the article on Bhopal refers to this particular 'prank' causing some distress to victoms of the Bhopal disaster (as well as the results mentioned above) but it seems an important point to add to the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.69.54.14 (talk) 21:12, 2 March 2008 (UTC)