Talk:Smiley

Pre-1960 usage of smiley and face

The article referencing ("The Man Who Owns the Smiley Face". Vice. 10 August 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2018.) states "Despite smiley ideographs dating back to the 1950s, the term smiley wasn't linked to the smiling yellow face until the 1970s" IMHO the word smiley was linked to ideographs before the 1970s

Merriam-Webster list the "First Known Use of smiley Adjective 1848 " https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smiley

On March 18 1922 the Gregory Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio ran an ad for smiley face balloons in The Billboard

A smiley face balloon from a Gregory FUNNY-B'LOONS ad page 20 of The Billboard March 18 1922 page 20

The Erie Railroad had a good ambassador of goodwill name SMILEY it not THE "the smiling yellow face" however the is a smiling face (see http://elmags.railfan.net/ERIE_Dec1948.pdf and http://cs.trains.com/ctr/f/3/p/256495/2870668.aspx)

In the 1950s the MA-3 rocket launcher [mode III "Smiley"] manufacture by Century Industries of San Pedro, CA [contract AF33 (600) 28547] it had a "painted smiling face" (https://archive.org/details/sim_united-states-congress-hearings-prints-and-reports_may-02-1956-february-08-11-12-march-26-29-/page/627/mode/2up?q=smiling+ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Intermediate_Report_of_the_Committee_on/eojRAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Smiley%20%E2%80%9D )

In Helping Johnny Remember(1956) by Portafilms two cartoon faces are drawn on the blackboard: "Smiley" and "Sulky." https://archive.org/details/HelpingJ1956

Do-It-Yourself, Carnival by Jane McHenry in Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sep 7, 1957 states "...Tape a paper plate to the mop head for a face, arranging string strands on each side for the hair. Draw a big smiley face on plate!...." Jane McHenry assumes kids knew how to draw a "smiley face" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-64qAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_GQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3995,1407077&dq=smiley-face&hl=en

Galloping Ghosts! by Bill Ross Anniston Star ,Oct 26, 1958 Page 50 states "Collect six empty pop bottles and six cone-shaped paper cups. With crayons draw smiley faces on three of the cups and scary ones on the others" Bill Ross assumes kids knew how to draw a "smiley face" https://newspaperarchive.com/anniston-star-oct-26-1958-p-50/

IMHO "Despite smiley ideographs dating back to the 1950s, the term smiley wasn't linked to the smiling yellow face until the 1970s" should be edit out ----Bayoustarwatch (talk) 20:52, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

Are you all ignoramuses? Or 12? I was born in 1943, and when I was growing up, a simple smiley face doodle was exactly the same as it is now. (And was the same to my mother in her youth, and almost certainly before, and she was born in 1916.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.88.43.77 (talk) 19:39, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Dinosaurs

dinosaurs died about 2 million years ago ! 95.144.44.108 (talk) 16:52, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Extreme errors on this page, voice suppression, censorship of older people who lived before 1950

I am an old woman, born in 1943. I can provide you my birth certificate. A supposedly "encyclopedic" article is alleging that something (a smiley face) did not appear in American culture until a decade after my birth, when I possess evidence that not only did it exist in my childhood, it existed in my mother's (she was born in 1916). This absolutely violates my lived experience, and the lived experience of others my age and older. You should strongly encourage the participation of the few older people in who are trying to participate in the Wikipedia project who actually have the lived experience and personal knowledge of these topics to contribute to them meaningfully. You're being ageist and non-encyclopedic, and it's past time for a class action lawsuit -- not just by older people around the world, but by users around the world. You should also make it easier for elderly people (and people who aren't experts in coding and markup language) to suggest improvements to articles. This is an evil organization and is vastly contributing to worldwide ignorance, on the largest scale of anything ever produced or published.

Please, before you just block and punish me again, tell me where I can place or voice these complaints. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.88.43.77 (talk) 19:51, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Smileys are a complex subject, I've spent years trying to make sense of it all with emojis, emoticons, Japanese emoticon, smileys. Then happy faces and other inventions, not to mention all the cave drawings and attempts to communicate using smiling faces. The reality is someone didn't draw a smiling face in 1970 for the first time. But there were lots of reasons the smiley exists as it does today that began well after 1943. For example, the NY radio stations use of yellow in the late 60s played a massive role in the use of the colour yellow. If you want to contribute then please do, but this isn't about how you can remember things, on Wikipedia everything needs to be accurately referenced to keep accuracy high.FelixFLB (talk) 10:44, 9 January 2025 (UTC)