Talk:Weird Science (film)

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[edit] Merge proposal discussion

For: (I am the original proposer of the merge). The TV series article info is already mostly in the main Weird Science article, and I feel there's little to be gained by making the information separate anyway. I'd assume that most people are interested in seeing one in the context of the other, and it's not like there is so much material that it needs splitting. Fourohfour 16:51, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

• Against: The article on the television show should be longer as it had a reasonably long run, has a somewhat interesting history of syndication, and is somewhat recent. I'll try to do some research and expand it later. -Drdisque 17:47, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

• Against As reasons above. Also, I might make a page about the single/song Weird Science by Oingo Boing, juts letting you know in advance so that the info doesn't clutter up this page about the movie. --Rachel Cakes 10:31, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

• Against For reasons already stated. Both articles need to be expanded though, and a song article isnt a bad idea either.SkaTroma 21:17, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

• For. If the TV series were covered as well as it deserves to be, the combination still would not be unwieldy. —Tamfang 00:26, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] possible copyvio

At least some of this is ripped right from the IMDB entry, particularly the trivia bit about Kelly leBrock almost turning down the role. I'm not really a film guy though, so i don't really know how IMDB and copyright work. Anyone wanna check it out? Murderbike 06:13, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Movie poster for Weird Science (1985).jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:17, 1 January 2008 (UTC)