Talk:I really like your costume

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Hey could someone mind changing the name of this article from Hey,X. I really like your X costume to "Hey, X, I Really Like Your X Costume". I messed up when I was writing the article and I don't know how to change it. Geonightman 19:36, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Delete?

I think that What are you supposed to be? handles this topic much more thoroughly. Any thoughts? StrongAwesome 22:03, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Well I actually made this a separate article because this one joke has been used over and over again as itself. I feel it should be considered a running gag.Geonightman 22:27, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

I have to agree with StrongAwesome. The line itself can be mentioned on the "What are you supposed to be" page, maybe even as a subsection, but it's basically the same joke. --Jay (Talk) 23:56, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

I stand on saying that we should keep it a separate page, however if we do decide to merge this with "What are you supposed to be?" then I agree with you Jay in that it should at least be a subsection.--Geonightman 03:17, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Comment I always thought of "What are you supposed to be?" as when a character is confused about what other characters are dressed up as. Though if a merge is wanted, then "What are you supposed to be?" should be given a new title to cover the multiple costume running gags. --Ngamer01 17:17, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

I have to agree with the common opinion here. This is not a seperate joke from What are you supposed to be? at all. Also, I really don't like using algebraic variables in article titles. -- Super Martyo boing! 20:29, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

I'm neutral on what should happen here, but this is what a merge might look like. It seems like this version creates duplicate information, and i'm not sure if that's a problem/how to fix it if it is. Policy is escaping me right now, but i think that if the final decision is to merge, this should be a redirect to that page instead of a hard delete. The Knights Who Say Ni 00:01, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

I'm for the merge linked in Ni's reply. ColdReactive 02:32, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

There are multiple ways we could merge these:

Possibility 1: Note in the description that Homestar tends to word his costume confusion as "Hey, X, I really like your X costume", and note those in the list.

Possibility 2: Remove any of Homestar's "Hey X" lines in the main list and put them only in the subsection; the header of the subsection should be very much reworded if we do that sort of merge, BTW.

Possibility 3: Deal with the duplicate info. (Still editing the header.)

Whatever the case, though, I'm still not sure this is separate enough to merit a separate page. (To Ngamer01, this line IS about when a character (namely, Homestar) is confused about what other characters are dressed up as. It's just a more specific form of that.) --Jay (Talk) 10:05, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Now I don't think there is even any need for merging. The current structure of What are you supposed to be? is fine as it is because I doubt many readers will really want to learn what way Homestar formats his question for each instance. (But hey, what do I know?) I think that deletion of this article is the best way to go, with no major changes to WAYSTB being necessary. Homestar-Winner (talk) 04:18, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

I think it's significant that while others are saying, "What are you? Such and such?", Homestar is an exception.. he doesn't ask, he just assumes he's right and his phrasing is almost identical most of the time (and there are many instances). Some effort should be made to document this. Somewhere. Either keep, or merge and explain the contrast. OptimisticFool 06:27, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and merged the article. RickTommy (edits) 03:47, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and unmerged it. There's no consensus to do this. Also, I don't think it should be merged. It's a subjoke of the larger one, but it's happened so many times as to be its own joke itself. — Defender1031*Talk 09:49, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Revisit: I think that this does discuss a separate-enough topic from "wearing?" that it merits its own page. My reasoning is this: "wearing?" discusses really obscure and hard-to-recognize references (TBC are very good at that), however Homestar's guesses are simply off-the-wall and very Homestaresque even if what the real costume is supposed to be is fairly obvious. I think that should be the distinguishing line between both articles. More so, this article needs to explain what Homestar was referring to and what the real costume was much like "wearing?". --Stux 13:07, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

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While I still think this should be flat-out merged with What are you supposed to be?, I think at the very least we could get rid of the algebraic variables in the title of the article. I never liked having "X" in a title to represent a wild card. Since this joke is only used by Homestar, could we just name the article "Homestar's Costume Confusion"? I mean, that's lame, but maybe someone else could come up with something better. -- Super Martyo boing! 21:19, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

I think it should be renamed to Hey, X, I really like your X' instead, to cover all grounds, object, costume or anything really. ColdReactive 05:11, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

How about just "I Like Your X Costume"? That'sBupkis! 04:45, 23 November 2012 (UTC)