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February 19

"El coquí" song

Does Wikipedia have an article about the song "El coqui"? I cannot seem to find it. This is quite a popular song, and I'd be surprised if Wikipedia does not have an article on it. I am not sure if that ("El coqui") is the official title. That may just be the popularly known refrain and/or lyrics. Here is a You Tube video of it: [1]. Anyone? Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 04:00, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

I couldn't find it mentioned either on English or Spanish Wikipedia. Our general article on Coquí does mention 'The sound of a Coquí can be heard distinctly at the beginning and end of the songs "Acércate" and "Ángel Caído" ', but that has nothing to do with the children's song. There are even common English nursery rhymes/children's songs that don't have an article here yet, e.g. "A Diller, A Dollar". ---Sluzzelin talk 10:08, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. Wow, I am really surprised. Is there some page (or WikiProject) where I can offer this as a recommendation? I really don't have the time or the knowledge to start the article myself. But, I think it should be started. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 18:20, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

You could post it at Wikipedia:Requested_articles/music/Songs. I have no idea what the odds are that this will help turn it into an article, but there's nothing to lose either. ---Sluzzelin talk 22:18, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I will try that page. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 22:40, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 17:26, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Name of a Film

What is the name of the film, where a child from NZ is forced to learn Rachmaninov on piano, then moves to England to become a concert pianist and ends up in a lunatic asylum due to the stress? Apparently it's a true story. KägeTorä - (影虎) (TALK) 15:52, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Shine (film) --Viennese Waltz 15:55, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

That's the one! Excellent! Thanks! KägeTorä - (影虎) (TALK) 15:58, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Brilliant film. But set (mostly) in Australia rather than New Zealand.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 16:30, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

I wonder if the movie The Piano, which is set in NZ and released 3 years before Shine, led to the confusion (even though it's about a much earlier age). StuRat (talk) 21:22, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Possibly, but the only thing those two movies have in common is that a piano has a major role. Oh, one other thing: both the directors are Australians, or at least Australian-resident, but both were born overseas (Jane Campion was from New Zealand, and Scott Hicks was born in Uganda). -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 21:57, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

"Dropzone"

So when the full version of "Dropzone" by Richie Sosa and Donnie Daydream comes out? I still can't find anything besides the 1-minute tune from Lexus CT advert. Lexus blog doesn't shine much light on it either (I hope the tune wasn't made specifically for that advert). Brandmeister^talk 20:31, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

This is the production company: Godiy Music — Seems like they only do "music placement" (i.e.: commercials, etc.).   ~:71.20.250.51 (talk) 02:40, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Jana Pittman, and who else?

Been hesitant to ask this here, because it's just about my own country, but it's really bothering me. Jana Pittman yesterday competed for Australia in the two-woman bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Part of the publicity surrounding her has been that she is the first Australian female athlete to compete in both Summer and Winter games. (She is also a 400 metre runner and hurdler.)

But who was the first male to do this? Or... Yesterday I saw a normally very reliable source tell us that she is the first Australian to compete at both forms of the Games, with no gender mentioned.

Anyone know for sure? HiLo48 (talk) 22:15, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

I didn't find a comprehensive list on Wikipedia (there is short list of those who competed both in summer and winter with most appearances, but it obviously excludes quite a few). So I performed a WP:CATSCAN once again. I got two male Australian athletes who had competed at both the Summer and Winter Paralympics (Anthony Bonaccurso and Dominic Monypenny), but none at the Summer and Winter Olympics. ---Sluzzelin talk 22:42, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for that. (I do have an interest in the Paralympics.) Michael Milton competed at both versions of the Paralympics too. HiLo48 (talk) 00:08, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

As you probably know, HiLo, the Australian media generally has a sort of indifferent attitude to female sportspersons. Best exemplified by the golfiste Karrie Webb, who this week won her 5th (fifth) Australian Women's Open, but got scant mention for her troubles. As far as I can tell, nobody else has won more than twice. Had a man achieved this quintuple feat, it would have been front page news. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 22:57, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Yes. Jana, however, seems to have done enough to achieve media attention, but it wasn't all by competing. HiLo48 (talk) 00:08, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

A while ago I asked this question on Jana's Talk page, and an answer appeared there today. Paul Narracott did it. Very similar events to Jana. HiLo48 (talk) 01:27, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

(Just in case anyone's interested: Catscan itself didn't fail here, but the categorization of some of our articles did perhaps. Paul Narracott can't be found in the Category:Competitors at the 1984 Summer Olympics (or any other category referring to Summer Olympics), so he slipped through my dragnet.

Another difficulty I had, was the fact that seasonally specific "Olympic competitors" categories do not exist upward beyond "Competitors at the [YEAR] Summer/Winter Olympics". From then on the categories go by Olympics (the games) rather than competitors (people), and in the end I had to pick Category:Summer Olympic Games and Category:Winter Olympic Games, and scanned them together with Category:Australian athletes. (I decided to distinguish the male athletes by reading the results' first names). At first glance I thought "wow!" because the tool gave me lot of male athletes. Apart from the two I named, however, they were all figure skaters. Reason: Category:Olympic figure skaters of Australia is part of Category:Olympic figure skaters is part of Category:Figure skating at the Olympic Games which is part of Category:Summer Olympic events (!) because in 1908 and 1920 figure skating events were contested at the Summer Olympics (there were no Winter Olympics yet). As I said, just in case anyone's interested :-) ---Sluzzelin talk 23:20, 20 February 2014 (UTC)