Talk:selfie

This is wrong
People were taking selfies long before this period. I myself remember doing it in the 1980s as did many people. When we had cameras that had 24 photos in the film and you went out taking photos, you didn't want to waste the last one or two before sending it off so you took funny selfies of yourself.

Illustrations
We have a selfie of an astronaut, which is pretty unusual in itself. Adding an image of a monkey accidently taking its picture is absolutely not relevant in a dictionary. I've removed it since it seems merely like an attempt to diffuse as widely as possible an image that happens to have achieved wikifame.

Please motivate in what way someone looking for the definition of "selfie" is helped by having an image of a monkey face here.

Peter Isotalo 18:29, 12 August 2014 (UTC)


 * If anyone feels there's a need for more images, here are some (human) selfies from Commons (and one of two people taking a selfie).
 * Peter Isotalo 20:52, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

hyponym
Please add the hyponyms "monkey selfie", "ape selfie" and "animal selfie". Sources, e.g.: Some "animal selfies" maybe aren't selfies (self photographs) though, but selfie-like pictures taken by humans (maybe mostly US-Americans as they are known for being less intelligent). --IP, 01:36, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/06/wikipedia-monkey-selfie-copyright-artists, www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/monkey-selfie-cant-be-copyrighted-u-s-regulators-confirm-n186296 , www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/monkey-see-monkey-click
 * 2) www.lawfuel.com/ape-selfie, www.talkofnaija.com/world/how-an-ape-selfie-caused-trouble-between-photographer-and-wikipedia
 * 3) www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/wikipedia-refuses-remove-animal-selfie-3999355, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2535743/PAW-sing-camera-animal-selfies-taking-Twitter-storm.html

A photo
I've seen a couple of instances where selfie refers to a photo taken by someone else. One instance, presumably durably archived, was a BBC interview with a couple that met Barrack Obama at Stonehenge, where one of the security guards took a 'selfie' of them (but the security guard wasn't in the photo). Renard Migrant (talk) 11:43, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Vandal edit-war
There has been vandalism on the Dutch translation. Otofoto, differently from zelfje, is of widespread usage and can be seen on the Dutch internet with a simple search. The user ironically going by Metaknowledge insists on reverting the addition of translation to Dutch and otofoto as a synonym to the Dutch calque "selfie", despite being an entry by itself on this very site. If the (valid) neologism ought to be deleted from here, the individual page 'otofoto' must be rfd-ed before. I have better things to do than waste my time on this site that is to linguistics the philosophical equivalent of Ayn Rand. Cheers, illiterateds. Lioita (talk) 06:13, 30 March 2020 (UTC)Lioita
 * Then don't come back :^) —Suzukaze-c◇◇ 21:19, 30 March 2020 (UTC)