Talk:Big O

Obama's Kryptonian origins

" I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth."

There is video evidence of Obama's extraterrestrial origins.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vws9fTtQgz4

Stop the coverup!!! 12.40.5.69 (talk) 21:00, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

OK, you've had your joke. Thanks for the break. Time to move on now. JamesMLane t c 23:34, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

If you read it the page, it was a "New York City charity event that takes the form of a comedy roast".

"Obama's speech made fun of his own name and reputation for grandiloquence, and took shots at both John McCain" Basicaly, it WAS A JOKE. Gangstabrutha (talk) 03:26, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

No proof for individual claims

There's no proof or even mention on the respective article pages for the following people that this nickname is used to refer to them:

• Barack Obama
• Bob Orton
• Brian Oldfield
• Glenn Ordway
• Oprah Winfrey

I've left them in for now with a tag. I'll prune them in the future if the articles aren't updated with the relevant information and proof. The articles for the three other individuals need better refs for this as well. Mindmatrix 22:14, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

MOS:DAB doesn't allow references in disambiguation pages, and I'm not convinced that the nickname needs to appear and be sourced on the target page to be listed here. Anyway, I found references for Obama [1], Oprah [2], Ordway [3], and Orton [4], so I think all of those should be kept. I don't know about Oldfield, though. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:05, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Just a quick clarification on DAB guidelines and synonyms for David Eppstein (or anyone who might be confused on the policy)

The DAB policy section "DABMENTION" is about when a topic relates to another article but isn't a synonym for the article title. For example, if the DAB page is a person name such as "Joe Blow" and you link to an article on a real life crime case where a suspect in the case went by the alias "Joe Blow" then you could only link to that article if it mentions that as a alias for one of the suspects in the case. Now if the person was not mentioned in the article it links to then it's not acceptable. This does not apply to synonyms even if they do not appear in the article the link to since the topic is the article they link too. So for example the word tucker, as Australian slang for food, can link to the food article on a Tucker disambiguation page without needing to be mentioned in the food article. This applies to the article as the term "The Big O" is just a slang synonym for an Orgasm and thus the topic is Orgasm and so the orgasm article need not mention the term "The Big O". If there was a question as to it actually being a synonym then there would be an issue but it's mentioned as slang for Orgasm in the American Heritage Dictionary and the Free Dictionary, among others. Also, I went b ack and looked through the discussion archives linked to the DAB policy page and found a proposed rules from 20145 that suggested that synonyms on DAB pages should also appear in the article they link to. The result of this proposal was "No consensus" so I can officially say that as of today at least, that is not official policy so there is no need to have "The Big O" appear on Orgasm Article first. Here is a link to the archived discussion on the proposed addition to the "Manual of Style/Disambiguation policy page section on DABMENTION were there was no consensus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Disambiguation_pages/Archive_41#Proposed_addendum_to_MOS:DABSYN --Notcharliechaplin (talk) 08:21, 27 September 2020 (UTC)