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February 11

Is there going to be a Xena convention in los Angles in 2015?

Is there going to be a Xena convention in los Angles in 2015? 174.7.167.7 (talk) 02:28, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

You have been warned before not to ask us to make predictions, and that google will tell you as much as anyone else. μηδείς (talk) 03:08, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Google [xena convention 2015] and see if any of them are to be in LA. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 03:59, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

curling stone colors

The rules of curling state that each team's stone must have a distinctive color, but no specific colors are mentioned. Yet I have only seen red and yellow. Are other colors ever used?    → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 05:01, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Blue and green ones also exist. See here. I imagine that red/yellow is the easiest combination for television. - Cucumber Mike (talk) 08:24, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

SOCHI 2014 OFFICIAL OLYMPIC GRAPHIC SYMBOLS

thank you for your complete information on the olympics at Sochi 2014, it would be nice to have a complete list of the all of the graphic symbols for each of the sports at the 2014 games. thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.1.78.244 (talk) 06:18, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Have you checked the official winter games website? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:30, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

The pictograms are visible on this website (Sign design society) and as a set on Flickr. ny156uk (talk) 22:49, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Rylan Clark's Wikipedia page

Why haven't you listed Rylan's other awards that he also won the following awards in 2013:

LAFTA Awards x 2 awards were won by him (1 of which was for him & Gary Barlow's comedy banter on XFactor 2012)

National Reality TV Award for Best Male Personality — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.73.217.232 (talk) 13:31, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Who do you think you are asking this question to? Wikipedia articles are not written by some nameless "you", they are written by volunteer editors like you and me. If the information you mention is not included in Rylan Clark's article that's simply because no-one has added it yet. You can do it yourself, but you need to find a reliable source for the information otherwise it may be deleted. --Viennese Waltz 13:36, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

The other thing that you could do is to ask your question at the article's talk page at Talk:Rylan Clark and hopefully somebody will do it for you. This is the Reference Desk and despite what the editor above says, although technically correct, we're here to help people to find reliable references to use in Wikipedia articles, so perhaps another editor will be able to sort one out for you. If not, I'll have a go myself later on, if I get a few spare moments. Alansplodge (talk) 11:43, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Olympic medal ceremony coverage

I've been watching the Olympics pretty consistently (in the U.S. on NBC). I have not seen a single medal bestowing ceremony. I've been watching the Olympics for many years and such ceremonies always seemed to me to have been broadcast in the past, and to lend a needed air of the momentousness of the award and to ... I don't know ... provide the period at the end of any particular event's sentence. What gives with NBC's coverage?--108.46.100.156 (talk) 14:02, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

It is highly unlikely that anyone here can answer for NBC, as the chance that the specific NBC employee who has the knowledge necessary to answer this question would be patrolling this page. You can contact NBC as described at this page here. Otherwise, unless someone can find an official statement from NBC already published, we cannot answer your question in this forum. --Jayron32 14:07, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Maybe someone will come along who knows. I'm sure this has been or will be discussed if it continues in the media and someone will see a report somewhere.--108.46.100.156 (talk) 14:23, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

NBC's coverage was maligned two years ago at the Summer Olympics and I haven't seen any rave reviews this year either. I wouldn't be surprised if there are plenty of complaints out there about this portion of the games this year. Dismas|^(talk) 20:02, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

I can't speak for NBC, but I will note that the medal ceremonies are all done later in the day at a central venue, it's just a ceremony in which flowers are bestowed on the medal winners that takes place just after the event itself. Has the US actually won anything yet? --TammyMoet (talk) 21:10, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Yes, the Americans have won two golds, a silver, and several bronzes at the time of my writing. Another thing to note is that the NBC coverage has been arranged to hold back the showing of U.S. medal-winning performances for the evenings (prime time), so if they are showing medal ceremonies, they're probably being shown close to 10 or 11 P.M. Deor (talk) 22:03, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

The US actually won the first gold medal of the games for slopestyle. Dismas|^(talk) 22:53, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

In past games, NBC has often played some medal presentations in their late-evening show, which is well past the time of both live and replayed competitions. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:46, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

• You might be interested in reading Olympics on NBC#Criticism. For the past few Olympics, NBC's coverage have been criticized for its tape delay coverage, and severely editing the opening and closing ceremonies and other events, all in grounds that they get better ratings in the evening hour/primetime period. Zzyzx11 (talk) 04:28, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

NBCSN (NBC Sports Network, a cable-only channel) has been showing events live during the morning and afternoon US time. They get re-sliced and diced for the evening show. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:28, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Even with NBCSN, you still have to pay for cable. I'm starting to see news stories like this where people find it cheaper to pay for a VPN that connects them to a Canadian IP address so they can stream CBC's free coverage (which normally is blocked to anyone outside of Canada). Zzyzx11 (talk) 08:09, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

While I can't comment on that as an overall trend... CBC's content has been uniformly excellent. I add that they opened their coverage of Men's Luge with something like "Welcome to our Canadian viewers, and to everyone else stealing our content from abroad..." UltraExactZZ ^Said ~ Did 13:19, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

What album?

What album/EP are Robert j. Haggetts The Unstoppable from? And are the song considered as Dubstep? --80.161.143.239 (talk) 16:01, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

It's from a album simply named Dubstep from 2011 and published by West One Music/APM Music. --80.161.143.239 (talk) 17:01, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

how to count music sales for list of 'list of best-selling music artists'article

Hi There,

I want to do some research and look wheter some older artists can be added to the 'list best-selling music artists', on which a protected wiki excists.What I need to know is the following:

How should I handle the following situatons: - If an artist has mostly an solo carreer but has an album as a member of a band, can I add the sales of both on account of the individual singer (such as Orbison and Dylan and their appearance in the Traveling Wilburys).

- Can I use the apperance of one song sung by an artist on a movie-soundtrack and ad them by his total number of sold records?

- how about songs written by an artist and sung by another (like Bridge over troubled Water sung by Elvis Presley and written by SImon and Garfunkel. Can I count the sales of those by Simon and Garfunkel).

I don't now wheter this is the right place to ask those questions, but I'm a newby here. If not, please don't take offence and let me know and show me the right way to get this information.

Yours sincerely,

Marco van Lent — Preceding unsigned comment added by Atomiaan (talk • contribs) 21:41, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

You may get a better answer if you ask your question at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music. --Jayron32 11:06, 12 February 2014 (UTC)