Talk:Rock Lobster

Rock Lobster in Magic: The Gathering

Rock Lobster is a card in the Magic: The Gathering expansion Unglued, possibly inspired by this song.

An IP inquiring about a documented performance?

This is an edit I removed from the article:

Can't find citation, but band appeared at Company Party performance in one of the better daytime Soap Operas US, probably immediately post-chart. I've seen and might have short clip of this - 3-camera set but little normal novela shifting - on the band most time, as principal character's expressions in the audience were either mawkish, surprised or simply too stoned.

Can someone help this IP please? Hearfourmewesique (talk) 01:44, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

1986 12" single

The 12" release has Rock Lobster and Planet Claire on side 1, Future Generation and Give me back my Man on side 2. https://www.amazon.co.uk/B-52S-rock-lobster-BFT-single/dp/B00QH2YW68 John a s (talk) 19:26, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

[Vague]

I have not contributed to this article at all, but I noticed the insertion of "vague" after the description of the first version being "faster". I just don't understand this as this is a clearly true statement. It's at a bit faster tempo, for sure. What is vague about this? I'm just confused, thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:5B0:51CC:D5D8:151B:E6E2:95FB:8D75 (talk) 18:01, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Magic the Gathering Un-Set reference

Hello, I have put forth an edit to include the reference to this page featuring the card Rock Lobster from the Magic the Gathering set Unglued. https://scryfall.com/card/ugl/79/rock-lobster https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?printed=true&multiverseid=5648

First time it was removed to being un-notable, but it being etched into an early beta of a motherboard from Commodore computers that most users didn't get a copy of nor checked, is notable. The user who removed that edit has others calling out how they remove things no one else would, so I put it back in, and it was removed to not being a direct reference.

I don't wish to create an edit war, but I don't understand how it's not a reference to the song, or notable? If I search "Rock Lobster" I only get direct references to this song, nothing about another type of animal or a novel. If you check the second link for the Gatherer listing, others are making the same connection.

I understand that the three cards are a Rock Paper Scissors joke, but Paper Tiger is also mocking another phrase, so I don't see that would forbid Rock Lobster from being a reference. If it's a lack of direct citation, I can ask Mark Rosewater's Q&A and get an answer from him most likely.

Again, I wish to state that I'm still fairly new to editing Wikipedia, so maybe I'm missing a general guideline somewhere. But I would at least like to put forward the idea that Rock Lobster is a reference to Rock Lobster. Wikipedia's high requirements for edits is what makes it good, not a fault. Bull3tM0nk3y (talk) 21:40, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

There are a host of Wikipedia policies and guidelines that are relevant here, and I'm not going to spend the time to point them all out. (It's late, I'm sleepy.) Basically, it doesn't matter if it's true that the game has a reference to this song. If the reference isn't notable enough to be mentioned in independent, third-party reliable sources, it isn't notable enough for the article. I'm of the opinion that much or most of WP's "In popular culture" items don't belong in WP, and this article's version could arguably use further trimming. The fact that other trivia is in the article is not a reason to add more. CAVincent (talk) 07:54, 6 March 2024 (UTC)