Talk:Viral video

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[edit] Proposed merger of viral video with viral marketing

These are in fact different things. For example, users of FORscene can Bluetooth their own videos virally between mobile handsets, with no marketing in site. Stephen B Streater 06:33, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Oppose. Viral videos are becoming more not lessn notable. TV Genius 23:52, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Website list

Since the list of websites has been taken off, should an article be created that lists the viral video websites that have an article on Wikipedia? 71.31.147.210 01:05, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

This sounds like a good idea, if there are sufficiently notable viral videos to have articles. Can you give more than one viral video with an article? Stephen B Streater 06:08, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Mostly the ones that were a part of the external links. Stupid Videos, EBaum's World, Google Video, YouTube, Metacafe, Revver, Ifilm. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.31.154.84 (talk • contribs) 02.56, 26 June 2006
I suggest we add internal links rather than external links in a see also section. Stephen B Streater 06:22, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marketing vs Non-marketing uses

I've added a "Marketing uses" section and merged the "Non-marketing uses" section into the main text. Most of the text in the article was about the non-commercial kind (or use-neutral), with only a couple of sentences mentioning marketing in passing (and one of those was *in* the "Non-marketing uses" section). Hopefully it makes more sense now; otherwise, there should probably be both sections (though perhaps use "amateur" instead of "non-marketing uses"). --Sabik 04:34, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Product Placement??

The explicit mention of only FORscene for a video editing somewhere seems rather strange. I don't do much video editing, but it would appear to me that people doing amateur editing would the program that came with their web-cam, or Windows Movie Maker since it's on pretty much every PC out there. Consider mentioning other entry-level video editing software, or remove the mention of FORscene. I've put a advert tag for now since I don't really know which is the better option. Headbomb 05:07, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] First Viral Video?

Terry Tate: Office Linebacker? SnaX 13:45, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inconsistency in deletion of articles

User:Bfigura flagged The REAL Rudy for deletion. Yet, there are over 20 viral videos listed on the viral videos article, including a porn-sharing site. Yet, only The REAL Rudy was flagged for speedy deletion. Dogru144 03:22, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rv of censored material

An editor censored the following: I have restored content, sans the party's name: signed, Dogru144 03:25, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

has moved to delete The REAL Rudy on Robert Greenwald's viral video immediately upon its posting. The move to delete the article was made with no justification on my talk page or on the talk page of the article.

The {therealrudy.com} web site is politically significant. There are hundreds of google accessible hits as the result of the google search for it. The move to delete the article is probably politically motivated, as it is inconsistent with the survival of other viral videos. Note that there is existing commercially motivated material, such as the Ron Paul Dollar, promoted on the wikipedia page for Liberty Dollar. Yet, this has not been deleted. Dogru144 23:15, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Examples of other viral videos that have not been deleted

The above is an example of a viral video that has not been deleted. Dogru144 03:25, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

I've removed the Fox Attacks: Obama wiki link because it's not a "viral site". DHN 16:59, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:POV in removal of video sites

Editors have not explained their removal of sites. Excepting User:DHN, users have not explained their removal of sites from this page.

They have not explained how some videos qualify as viral videos and other do not. This arbitrary removal of viral video listings is apparently POV. Dogru144 22:24, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Added new section "Notable viral videos" & information on "2 Girls 1 Cup"

I added this information as I felt it relevant to the article and also as I could not find any information about this on Wikipedia, and also due to it being a combination of two memes, somewhat a first? (feel free to correct me), I created a new section as the information wasn't relevant to the previous sections, feel free to make edits accordingly for readability, flow etc. Thanks. DBAlex 19:17, 15 November 2007 (UTC)