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Many far less important and influential literary characters have their own Wikipedia articles. There was an article, and it was removed, and that's a disgrace. Google any obscure cartoon character--say Milton the Monster--and you find a Wikipedia article. Sonja Blue, one of the most original figures in contemporary vampire fiction, clearly a direct (and uncredited) influence on Buffy the Vampire Slayer--gets a brief mention in her creator's extremely brief Wikipedia entry. While untold thousands of far less important characters have lengthy write-ups.
There's no excuse for this, no possible justification. Somebody either screwed up, or else had an an axe to grind. Either way, disgraceful. Xfpisher ( talk) 19:02, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
The "Selected short stories & novelettes" section should be edited so that short stories are in quotes and novelettes are in italics. I can't do it myself since I don't know which is which. Thanks. N,N-dimethylpeptokryptamide ( talk) 20:36, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Recently. User:Pburka removed the following pages from Category:American SubGenii.
Nancy A. Collins [1] (Mentioned here, here and here)
Penn Jillette [2] (Mentioned here and here and here)
Rudy Rucker [3] (Mentioned here, here, here and here)
John Shirley [4] (Mentioned here and here)
Bruce Campbell [5] (Mentioned here and here)
Del Close [6] (Mentioned here)
Paul Reubens AKA Pee Wee Herman [7] (Mentioned here and here)
Lon Milo DuQuette [8](Mentioned here)
These removals were perfectly reasonable, because the articles do not mention membership in the COSG, nor are most of the links I list above reliable sources. Because of this, I am putting out a call for citations to reliable sources that establish Church of the SubGenius membership for these and other celebrities. I suspect that a fair count will put the number considerably higher than the number of celebrity Scientologists. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 00:49, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
A writer of prose fiction publishes a novel in 1989 about a young woman with supernatural powers who kills vampires, after being instructed how to do so by an older mentor (her Giles). The vampires are parasitic demonic entities that infect the host, take him/her over, and take on his/her identity/memories. A few years later, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie) comes out. Shortly afterwards, there's a TV series, that resembles the books in a number of additional ways (that I didn't mention in my edits). (If you ever want to know where Spike came from.....)
Is it truly 'original research' to draw a comparison, suggest a potential influence? Is it original research to say Sonja came first? It's actually a documented fact.
Here's the Wiki article on the film Starcrash.
"It is widely regarded as a "cash-in" on the unprecedented success of Star Wars."
No link. Nobody querying "by whom?" You know why? It's self-evident.
Not original research.
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Many far less important and influential literary characters have their own Wikipedia articles. There was an article, and it was removed, and that's a disgrace. Google any obscure cartoon character--say Milton the Monster--and you find a Wikipedia article. Sonja Blue, one of the most original figures in contemporary vampire fiction, clearly a direct (and uncredited) influence on Buffy the Vampire Slayer--gets a brief mention in her creator's extremely brief Wikipedia entry. While untold thousands of far less important characters have lengthy write-ups.
There's no excuse for this, no possible justification. Somebody either screwed up, or else had an an axe to grind. Either way, disgraceful. Xfpisher ( talk) 19:02, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
The "Selected short stories & novelettes" section should be edited so that short stories are in quotes and novelettes are in italics. I can't do it myself since I don't know which is which. Thanks. N,N-dimethylpeptokryptamide ( talk) 20:36, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Recently. User:Pburka removed the following pages from Category:American SubGenii.
Nancy A. Collins [1] (Mentioned here, here and here)
Penn Jillette [2] (Mentioned here and here and here)
Rudy Rucker [3] (Mentioned here, here, here and here)
John Shirley [4] (Mentioned here and here)
Bruce Campbell [5] (Mentioned here and here)
Del Close [6] (Mentioned here)
Paul Reubens AKA Pee Wee Herman [7] (Mentioned here and here)
Lon Milo DuQuette [8](Mentioned here)
These removals were perfectly reasonable, because the articles do not mention membership in the COSG, nor are most of the links I list above reliable sources. Because of this, I am putting out a call for citations to reliable sources that establish Church of the SubGenius membership for these and other celebrities. I suspect that a fair count will put the number considerably higher than the number of celebrity Scientologists. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 00:49, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
A writer of prose fiction publishes a novel in 1989 about a young woman with supernatural powers who kills vampires, after being instructed how to do so by an older mentor (her Giles). The vampires are parasitic demonic entities that infect the host, take him/her over, and take on his/her identity/memories. A few years later, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie) comes out. Shortly afterwards, there's a TV series, that resembles the books in a number of additional ways (that I didn't mention in my edits). (If you ever want to know where Spike came from.....)
Is it truly 'original research' to draw a comparison, suggest a potential influence? Is it original research to say Sonja came first? It's actually a documented fact.
Here's the Wiki article on the film Starcrash.
"It is widely regarded as a "cash-in" on the unprecedented success of Star Wars."
No link. Nobody querying "by whom?" You know why? It's self-evident.
Not original research.