Wikipedia:Featured and good topic candidates/Black Mirror/archive1
Black Mirror (2011–2019) is a British anthology television series created by Charlie Brooker. Across its 22 standalone episodes and the interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, it explores science fiction technologies and dystopias to make commentary on contemporary social issues. The series began on the British network Channel 4 before being commissioned by the online streaming platform Netflix. It garnered critical acclaim and, according to some commentators, led to a repopularisation of the anthology format.
This has been a project of mine for more than half of my time on Wikipedia, beginning with work on "Nosedive" in August 2017, the GA nom in September 2017 and the successful promotion in January 2018. However, the first entry in this list came from Gabriel Yuji, who took "White Bear" to GA. I owe a great deal to many editors and reviewers, including those who are no longer active. Some such people include Adamstom.97, Alex 21, Aoba47, Chairhandlers, Ed! Hameltion, J Milburn, Kingsif, Masem, The Rambling Man, Some Dude From North Carolina, Somethingwickedly and a vanished user whose name I will omit but not forget. (If you've been pinged here and don't know why, it's likely a GA review you did.) — Bilorv (talk) 13:25, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
- Support: We've got the main article, the FL list of episodes, the FL list of awards, and all of the episodes and film at GA or better, and it's all tied together by a category and a navbox. My only comment is that some other image would probably be more illustrative than a photo of the series creator? I suppose we're wanting to avoid the fair-use title card of the show. There's also this PD imitation image that someone has made; is that trademark infringement? Anyway, well done to all who contributed! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 14:25, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
- @Bryanrutherford0: I think that imitation is fair game—it is a little bit different to the actual logo (which could be ineligible for copyright, but I've been erring on the side that it is copyrighted), but I think it's an improvement. How does it look at its current size? And maybe I can get a more expert opinion on whether the original logo is PD somewhere. — Bilorv (talk) 15:18, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah, I think that's a big improvement, if we think it passes legal and policy tests. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 15:29, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
- Yep, from commons:Commons:Village pump/Copyright#Black Mirror logo (permalink) it looks like the original logo is copyrighted, but the imitation is fine. — Bilorv (talk) 14:24, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah, I think that's a big improvement, if we think it passes legal and policy tests. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 15:29, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
- @Bryanrutherford0: I think that imitation is fair game—it is a little bit different to the actual logo (which could be ineligible for copyright, but I've been erring on the side that it is copyrighted), but I think it's an improvement. How does it look at its current size? And maybe I can get a more expert opinion on whether the original logo is PD somewhere. — Bilorv (talk) 15:18, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
- Support - It is truly amazing to see that everything from this series has now become either a GA or FA. Great work!
Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 14:45, 7 July 2021 (UTC) - Support: Wonderful work with this series! Aoba47 (talk) 17:42, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
- Comment First, huge congraulations for the huge work on getting on these articles up to GA+. The only query I have is if that image being used in the topic is allowed? Is the spoof logo not any kind of copyright or trademark infringement? Not an image expert, but wanted to double check. Spy-cicle💥 Talk? 14:37, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
- It's not a copyright violation because it's a very simple image and doesn't meet the threshold of originality. And I think it can't be a trademark infringement because its purpose is the same as in a large number of GT/FTs e.g. Chartjackers, Doctor Who (season 1)—it's not using the (approximated) logo in a misleading way (e.g. to sell merchandise), just for educational/illustrative purposes. — Bilorv (talk) 19:49, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
- Ah I see, thanks for clarification. Great job on this, Support. Regards Spy-cicle💥 Talk? 19:50, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
- It's not a copyright violation because it's a very simple image and doesn't meet the threshold of originality. And I think it can't be a trademark infringement because its purpose is the same as in a large number of GT/FTs e.g. Chartjackers, Doctor Who (season 1)—it's not using the (approximated) logo in a misleading way (e.g. to sell merchandise), just for educational/illustrative purposes. — Bilorv (talk) 19:49, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
- Support - excellent work, no reason not to support. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:42, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
- Support of course. Great work, great collection. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 18:50, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
- Support - Great work on the articles, all of them are nicely done. --Ashleyyoursmile! 05:50, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
- Support Excellent work! Damian Vo (talk) 10:15, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
- @FGTC coordinators: can I prod one of you to see if this is ready to promote? I'm selfishly hoping it can be promoted by the 29th for WikiCup purposes. — Bilorv (talk) 15:15, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
- Sorry, we're in a bit of a limbo as the bot is being finished up for the promotion process. I can definitely get to this before the 29th; we have to manually update each page so I've been, heh, pushing it off...! Aza24 (talk) 07:29, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
- Yep, I appreciate that's a fair bit of work then. — Bilorv (talk) 08:08, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
- Sorry, we're in a bit of a limbo as the bot is being finished up for the promotion process. I can definitely get to this before the 29th; we have to manually update each page so I've been, heh, pushing it off...! Aza24 (talk) 07:29, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
- Closed with a consensus to promote to Good Topic – Aza24 (talk) 19:41, 27 August 2021 (UTC)