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Cleaned history today. Nothing really relevant to current editing habits or interests in old logs. Radical Mallard (talk) 21:39, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Korean copycat product listed at Redirects for discussion

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I left a reply. The issue of it being racist to some people is an unfortunate one. I think what I find "dramatic" and "outstanding" about the Korean products is that the Japanese products "go out of their way" to make the packaging and such a unique part of the product experience, and they are based on ideas an artist came up with. The odds of the packaging looking the same, and the ingredients being the same with a few changes, by accident (so that at first glance one things the products are the same), seem astronomical. As opposed to how two milk or orange juice containers that have the same shape but the lettering, packaging, etc are just people selling something humans consume all over the world and there is no "gimmick" from another company that stands out to imitate. In the case of Korea, the Japanese "gimmick" is imitated and this is what stands out. Perhaps it is part of a broader phenomenon of "gimmick imitation": Topps products being copied by Fleer, Cracked and Crazy Magazine imitating Mad Magazine, etc. The subject apparently needs research done.--Radical Mallard (talk) 21:52, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am un-blanking my talk page posting a reply to this old comment thread of mine from years ago to try to clarify my involvement in this entry that was deleted (and I applaud it's deletion). It does not excuse the subject's unfortunate implications (which I realized were a very bad idea for Wikipedia: the idea of labeling something like this which is far more widespread around the world "[country-name] x") but I do believe it is worthwhile to explain it. At the time I was upset about the situation of the lack of reconciliation between Japan, Korea and China, and the racism directed between these 3 countries and societies at each other... why did Korea (or China or Japan for that matter) have imitation products of the other countries' products if they had so much animosity and disdain for each other since WWII? Why couldn't they reconcile if they liked aspects of each others cultures? Why have the modern commercial product sectors of China and Korea focused so much on imitation (at least this was my perception at the time) instead of innovation and originality? But this was not the way to go about addressing these issues and other entries on Wikipedia do better to address these issues - especially historical and cultural ones. My most humble apologies for this mistake. --Radical Mallard (talk) 00:41, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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== August 2016 == Hello, I'm Doniago. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Super Size Me seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. DonIago (talk) 13:31, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

At the time the McLibel case hang over the consciousness of the public around McDonalds quite extensively. To not mention McLibel at all in Spurlock's Wikipedia film entry seems extremely unreasonable, as another case was also mentioned.. if we do not mention the McLibel case then we probably should not mention the other case in the entry, but that would detract from the important information that other lawsuits against McDonalds on the issue of health-concerns-to-the-public would be left out, and this information is crucial to understanding why Spurlock made his film, 'Super Size me', and enhances the value of the Wikipedia article. I have added a couple reference links for the mention of the McLibel case, in relation to a film about it, and in relation to health concerns about mcdonalds food at the time.---Radical Mallard (talk) 11:53, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It was easy enough for me to address my POV concerns by simply removing "renowned and long-lasting", which are relative terms; I don't believe their removal hurts what you're trying to say. DonIago (talk) 19:17, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. Well, both of those descriptive words could be backed up by references. Whether one has a POV or not, the McLibel case was renowned and unprecedented, and it also lasted a very long time. It feels suspiciously excessive that something like this would be challenged when it was simply a fact of reality at the time. As if any possible thing one could say about this would be under a "legal challenge" microscope. Am I to assume that is the case? And can you explain why you would make a claim of POV in the first place when this was simply a recording of actual historical events?---Radical Mallard (talk) 13:44, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Because, as I said, they're both relative terms. There's no indication that Joe Normal would consider the case "renowned", and what makes a court case "long-lasting"? I doubt there's an official definition of such. I don't see that removing those descriptors harms the text. DonIago (talk) 14:08, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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It is fine to delete the outdated image.-Radical Mallard (talk) 23:49, 1 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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