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This article has been viewed enough times in a single week to appear in the Top 25 Report. The week in which this happened: January 24 to 30, 2016 (11th)

This page is filled with grammatical problems and poor sentence constructions. For example, this sentence...

"Tired of the comedies he had been working on for Walt Disney Pictures,[46] a report that 3.7 million Americans may have been abducted by aliens, the Watergate scandal and the 1970s horror series Kolchak: The Night Stalker, triggered the idea for The X-Files. He wrote the pilot episode in 1992."

...has a bizarrely misplaced modifier, causing the sentence to grammatical say that the alien report, the Watergate scandal and Kolchak were all tired of Disney comedies, not Chris Carter. As a result, that sentence makes NO sense whatsoever. It would be good if a competent, coherent writer with a strong grasp of grammar were to give his whole page a thorough editing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.184.74.7 ( talk) 12:22, 31 March 2019 (UTC) reply

See a problem Fix a problem. Sí? Turin07 ( talk) 08:33, 24 November 2020 (UTC) reply

I've addressed the problem, though by no means comprehensively. rowley ( talk) 00:20, 16 January 2021 (UTC) reply

The Ⓧ-Files / Ⓧ-Files should redirect here -- 65.94.42.168 ( talk) 18:18, 14 October 2018 (UTC) reply

Those are not likely search terms. --- The Old Jacobite _{The '45} 21:19, 14 October 2018 (UTC) reply

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:The X-Files is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:The X-Files until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:57, 23 April 2019 (UTC) reply

Does anyone have any conflicting opinions on Series 10 being more accurately referred to as "The Event Series" in an edit as described in physical media release, as Series 10 was released as a comic-book series and was canon at the time; although both The Event Series and Series 11 ret-con or contradict some aspects of the comics, (such as the status of The Lone Gunmen). MrScottBull ( talk) 08:05, 25 June 2020 (UTC) reply

In the episode Bad Blood (The X-Files) the story is told through the eyes of each agent and their stories dont agree proving that what we are seeing is not necessarily the truth. Perhaps all of the episodes are being told through the eyes of Mulder or Scully and are not necessarily the truth. See Tommy Westphall. Just granpa ( talk) 00:02, 4 August 2020 (UTC) reply