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Did you know... that They Might Be Giants sang in Simlish on the soundtrack for The Sims 2: FreeTime?

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Wrong company infos !

Maxis is dead since they are in EA, since 2007 the Maxis logo was removed from The Sims franchise ! It's no longer Maxis but it's EA Games only. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.52.208.241 (talk) 13:07, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot 10:29, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Release Dates

I'd just like to ask for people to stop removing/changing the release dates. These have been confirmed by EA. MahoneyUK (talk) 23:38, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Plagarism

The text in this article looks like it was 100% plagarised from Toy's R Us's website --24.129.212.48 (talk) 22:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Change page name

I feel the page name of the Free Time article should be changed/moved to The Sims 2: Free Time (adding the colon (“:”)). This is better in the line of all the other expansion pack articles. -Jort227 (talk) 15:52, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How?

How is it possible to plagiarize a product description. This is information released by EA to describe the upcoming game? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolweseun (talk • contribs) 06:53, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

'Should'?

The "should come out" part needs rephrasing or removing. Unless a specific date has been released it shouldn't be there.

Genie?

I have found Genie proof. See the reference. MahoneyUK (talk) 23:40, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone have proof that the creature is a Genie? Samurai Cerberus (talk) 17:40, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but dos the Genie mean that Sims will be Magic now? Samurai Cerberus (talk) 19:03, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The genie was confirmed to be an NPC, so there may be another creature. --220.233.183.183 (talk) 07:53, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing is confirmed until someone provides a reliable source.--Crossmr (talk) 08:04, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Were do we git this Genine stuff from anyway? Samurai Cerberus (talk) 23:08, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hobbies

I don't know why someone removed all of the hobbies I had listed. I don't want to start an editing war or something like that so I am asking if everyone else thinks describing the main addition of the game is not worthy of being in the article. If you don't know the hobbies are listed on their main website with a new one released every Thursday. --PabloEscobar5 (talk) 18:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spell Books?

The last hobby magazine looks like spell Books so it could be magic? What else could the books mean? If it sound formiy that is just becouse I am new at this Samurai Cerberus (talk) 00:16, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

wikipedia is not a place for speculation or a publisher of original thought. Talk pages are for discussions related to improvements that need to be made to the article, not a place for general discussion of the subject.--Crossmr (talk) 00:40, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

They do it on Bulbapeada. Samurai Cerberus (talk) 15:17, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The last Hobby magazine is going to be based on the new films and literature, not magic. --Dm416 (talk) 19:15, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

freetime and college

if i get the university expansion pack before i get the freetime, does my sims need to go to college to pursue in the careers in the freetime expansion pack —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.145.254.179 (talk) 18:17, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron talk 20:04, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that They Might Be Giants appeared on the soundtrack for The Sims 2: FreeTime? Source: Ramsay, Randolph (8 February 2008). "Bedingfield sings simlish in new Sims soundtrack". GameSpot. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mondelez v AMWU

Converted from a redirect by Vaticidalprophet (talk). Self-nominated at 08:42, 16 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/The Sims 2: FreeTime; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

New enough, long enough, and good enough. Well, "good" is subjective. It is "well-sourced, neutral, BLP-compliant, and copyvio-free" enough. On first blush it seems like it's an absurd amount of detail to write about a Sims 2 expansion pack, but when you read it, it turns out the detail's all information. Maybe there could be something in the hook about the songs being in Simlish (if true), because that is way more interesting than them just being on the soundtrack. i.e. that They Might Be Giants sang in Simlish on the soundtrack for The Sims 2: FreeTime?. jp×g 02:12, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you! Yeah, I agree that's an improvement, so I'll structure it in formal hook form. Vaticidalprophet 02:41, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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