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Check WP:NFCC. All opinions welcome. Thank you. walk victor falk talk 19:15, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
In the opening paragraph it is stated that The Adventures of Tintin has sold more than 350 million copies worldwide, and has appeared in over 80 translations, with reference (footnote 1) to a Guardian article dated 10 Nov 2003, which mentions more than 200 million copies and 50 languages. I find this unnecessarily confusing and misleading. Incidentally, is Dutch the only language in which Tintin is named after his trademark quiff ("Kuifje")? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.23.44.130 ( talk) 06:46, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
The History section of this article contained somewhat inappropriate text (added after this article reached Featured status) that had a few sentences which could be incorporated into other sections of this article but as a whole was not the best choice to describe the history of The Adventures of Tintin. It has been archived here (see also the Archive text box above):
History section as of 10 December 2011.
Meanwhile, in several of the series' articles including The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure, there existed (the same text in each article) a History/Background section that contained very well-written text that is truly the history of the entire Adventures of Tintin series. For that reason, that section has been removed from those articles and moved to this main series article. See the talk pages there.
This new History section of this article now requires one additional paragraph explaining the history of The Adventures of Tintin after Nazi-occupied Belguim, which would include Tintin (magazine) and Studios Hergé. I have made a small attempt at that paragraph and absolutely welcome other's creative input to complete it. —Prhartcom (talk) 14:48, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be a small note on the pronunciation of Tin Tin? Americans pronounce his name as if it was a "tin" in "tin can" Europeans pronounce Tin Tin, with the tin rhyming with "han" as in "Han Solo".
Nasukaren ( talk) 10:06, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Surely the pronunciation of Tintin depends on the language used? Not all 'Europeans' pronounce it the same way, viz. the British who pronounce it as in 'tin can', as in most English-language countries. In its original language, French, the nasal I is pronounced [e(n)], where "e" is pronounced like ê and (n) equals the nasal sound (and is silent), so rhymes with 'pain' (= bread). It's also never written in two words as in Rin Tin Tin, but always one. I don't think there was any connection with Rin Tin Tin by the way, and the origin of the name Tintin is explored in more detail in the character's own page.-- Stelmaris ( talk) 10:04, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
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According to the article book 10 ( The Shooting Star) "was the first to be originally published in colour". However, the article on the book states that "the Shooting Star was first serialized in the newspaper Le Soir in black and white". -- Oddeivind ( talk) 11:15, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
There's a discussion on which comic-related articles should be listed as "Top Importance" on the importance scale, and I feel this article should not be included. If any user disagrees or wishes to contribute, please do so there. Argento Surfer ( talk) 14:41, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
NOTE: In October, 2004 this article was nominated for FA [1] and then in January 2006 it became FA [2] appearing on the main page a year later. [3] —Prhartcom (talk) 12:29, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
This article received its featured article status years ago, and quite evidently no longer warrants such a status. I am proposing that we put it through reassesment. Any objections ? Midnightblueowl ( talk) 17:18, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
You're welcome. I own and am using The Pocket Essential Tintin also. Yes, it would be great "if I could work" on this article to achieve this ultimate aim. I have been doing so for some time. I assume you mean it would be great if you joined me. Which, with your experience, I would be honored. —Prhartcom (talk) 23:26, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
I don't have access to the sources the two of you have, so I won't be making substantial content contributions, but I hope you don't find my copyediting too picky. I would, at the least, like to have another stab at the lead—it seems unbalanced to me, putting emphasis on things I don't see as important, while burying important things later on. For instance, not mentioning ligne claire until the last paragraph, while putting sales figures front and centre in the very short first paragraph (which I don't think should even be in the lead at all).
I'm going to throw up my proposal here and see what you think. I don't think there's anything substantial that's missing from what was originally there (dropping Hergé's real name is not information loss—having it there is only distracting).:
The Adventures of Tintin ( French: Les Aventures de Tintin French pronunciation: [lezavɑ̃tyʁdətɛ̃tɛ̃]) is a series of comics by Belgian cartoonist Hergé (1907–1983). Noted for the variety of genres of its adventures, an attention to detail and accuracy, and its " clear line" drawing style, the series is one of the most popular and influential in the European comics tradition.
; its popularity was such that in 1966 French president Charles de Gaulle declared Tintin his "only international rival".The protagonist of the series is young Belgian reporter Tintin, aided by his faithful dog Snowy. The cast includes the brash and cynical Captain Haddock, the highly intelligent but hearing-impaired Professor Calculus, and the incompetent lookalike detectives Thomson and Thompson. Set in a realistically-depicted 20th century in well-researched settings, the series' plots straddle a variety of genres, including swashbuckling adventure, fantasy, mystery, political thrillers, and science fiction. The stories feature slapstick humour, offset by dashes of sophisticated satire and political or cultural commentary.
The series debuted as a comic strip on 10 January 1929 in Le Petit Vingtième, a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper [ Le XXe Siècle] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup ( help). The strip later moved to Belgium's leading newspaper Le Soir, and from 1946 ran in the long-lived Tintin magazine. In 1950, Hergé founded Studios Hergé, which produced the twenty-four volumes that make up the Tintin canon. The series has seen adaptations for radio, television, theatre, film, and video games, and translations into more than 50 languages. Tintin merchandise is available in Tintin Shops. Hergé's work is the subject of frequent exhibitions, and a body of work on the study of Tintin and Hergé has grown to be called Tintinology.
——— Curly Turkey ( gobble) 21:41, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
OK, I am finally taking a good look at your proposed lead. I don't agree that the current lead has "significant" problems...if they were significant they would have been corrected by now...possibly by me...but I certainly do agree that the lead can be improved. I like the direction you are going with the first paragraph, inserting the attributes that really define Tintin there. I like how you feel we can eliminate the fourth paragraph and move it's facts into the first and second paragraph. Let's certainly keep what we know is already good, which I see you also are doing. In fact, with that said, may I please list those sentences, or the facts and ideas they contain, that I feel are already good. Let us keep intact what we can:
Dear editors, can you please comment on each of my comments above? —Prhartcom (talk) 17:40, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
I'm not that active anymore but I recall being involved in the push to make this an FA. If it helps, I relied heavily on Thompson's book on Herge which was to be honest a disappointment for me. I couldn't trace a copy of either of Farr's books in our library system here, someone had taken out his Tintin companion and never returned it way back when. I do still have copies of Sabin's works if they're of any use but I mined them for all they worth all that time ago, and I still, somewhere, have The Comics Journal issues. If I can be of any assistance, let me know, preferably via my talk page, but my time here is limited and is tied up on another project at the moment. I recall User:Fram also being interested in this article so it might be worth asking them if they can be of any help. Good luck with it, and thanks for the kind words regarding my prose.:) Hiding T 13:21, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
"In one instance, the success of Tintin in 1929-30 was tied to a specific innovation: People in Belgium had never actually seen speech bubbles before--they were a new American idea. Herge virtually pioneered their use in Europe. The effect was seismic: Readers reacted to the early words and deeds of Tintin as if they were carved on tables of stone." [1]
References
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I'm amazed! you must have been working on this for some time. What a dramatic, wonderful change; I am completely in favor of it. This article has not seen such bold editing in years. I actually encountered an edit conflict with you as I was working at the same time, improving the citations. You heard about the first phase of the History section, and what it's been through to get here, right? This enhances the existing text of the History section wonderfully. —Prhartcom (talk) 22:51, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
The Legacy section of this article contained somewhat inappropriate text (added after this article reached Featured status) that had a few sentences (many with cited references) which could be incorporated into other sections of this article but as a whole was not the best choice to describe the legacy of The Adventures of Tintin. It has been archived here (see also the Archive text box above):
Legacy section as of 16 June 2013.
—Prhartcom (talk) 04:07, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello to User 84.210.44.152, who added the new section "The blueline system". There are a few problems with your work and it was necessary to revert it; I would be glad to go over it with you if you would like. However I wanted to let you know I did greatly enjoy reading the source material you provided from author Paul Gravett about Hergé's "clear line"; I will be adding it to this article's bibliography so others may enjoy reading it also; thanks for introducing it! —Prhartcom (talk) 19:21, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
This does bring up an issue: there's no section on the artwork, even though many aspects of the artwork are defining aspects of Tintin—so distinct it readily lends itself to easily-recognized homage and parody. Surely a concise version of what 84.210.44.152 wrote could (should) be worked into such a section? Curly Turkey ( gobble) 22:37, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
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would suppress the sub-subsections under "Characters". Also, I was thinking that maybe the "Adaptations and memorabilia" could be moved to its own article—it's got nine subsections all its own! Pretty overwhelming, and somewhat tangential.
Curly Turkey (
gobble) 00:51, 19 June 2013 (UTC)Assouline & Raus is listed as 2011 in the references, but as 2009 in "Further reading". Could you double-check which is right? Curly Turkey ( gobble) 22:44, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
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Is Tom McCarthy (writer), novelist the same man that writes for The Guardian? I'm honestly not convinced. —Prhartcom (talk) 21:38, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
The article mentions various female opera singers. As far as Castafiore's look is concerned, however, there's an almost striking resemblance to Swedish opera singer Birgit Nilsson, who certainly was known to Hergé. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.227.28.219 ( talk) 16:31, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
The history section seems to have a bias of coverage towards the earlier period (the first 5 years is covered in much greater detail than the last 40!), and lacks any mention that Hergé disavowed the xenophobia and racism of the early comics. I can't work out if this should prompt removal of the material or expansion. I am concerned that the section seems to focus almost exclusively on how right-wing Petit-Vingtième was, which is in turn supplemented by a "criticisms" section that points out much the same thing. Meanwhile the fact that the strip when taken as a whole exhibited a much broader ideological and social perspective isn't mentioned. Slac speak up! 02:03, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Article states "The series was one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century,", but what other comic would even come remotely close to Tintin in wstern Europe ? Lucky Luke ? Asterix ? Valiant ? No I don't believe so. Boeing720 ( talk) 23:44, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, people may be interested to comment at the requested move discussion at Talk:Tintin. Thanks, Mat ty. 007 15:54, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
The article should probably mention the issue discussed at [4]. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:30, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
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The mobile app currently has this as the top read on Wikipedia so I'm adding this chart to help see if it's spiking for some reason. There is indeed a massive spike and this seems to be associated with the recent terrorism in Belgium: Brussels attacks: how Tintin became a symbol of solidarity on Twitter. Andrew D. ( talk) 11:07, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
There's some dispute about where this should go. This should be a permanent feature at the head of the talk page, as it's always of interest to see what the readership is. The graph seems to need a caption to explain what it is so I might try embedding it in a template of some sort. Andrew D. ( talk) 13:48, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
I was surprised to see Mobygames and Sinclair Infoseek used as sources in an FA... they're patently unreliable sources as user-contributed databases without editorial oversight. (See WP:VG/RS.) Those citations should be removed and replaced. czar 17:26, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
Apart from the unreliable sources, there are also paragraphs of uncited text. This article no longer meets Wikipedia:Featured article criteria. DrKay ( talk) 17:07, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
(My earlier comment, relocated here from
Wikipedia:Featured article candidates:)
I have a lot of sources (in French), and could certainly assist other editors who raise issues to resolve, and/or to be corroborated by reliable sources. I’ll watch this page and participate where I can.
With kind regards; Patrick. ツ
Pdebee.
(talk)(become
old-fashioned!) 13:55, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
The The Adventures of Tintin#Exhibitions section starts in 1983. I don't know all that was before then, but I remember there was an 1980 one in Montreal. Google tells me that it was in 1979 and 1980, and the 45-page guidebook for it titled Le musée imaginaire de Tintin. It travelled to Montreal, France, and Brussels, with the dates Exposition tenue au Palais des beaux-arts, Bruxelles, du 28 juin au 28 août 1979 ; 2 autres lieux et au Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, du 19 juin au 24 août 1980. according to the gouvernment du Quebec; elsewhere I can see it was in Bordeaux October 1-31, 1979 and Paris November 17 to January 4. I'd think that something about this should be added. Presumably there are contemporary references in newspapers of the day. Nfitz ( talk) 09:02, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello everyone! I request if someone could please change the profile picture into the first issue cover of the series, because this is a comic series with many issues and placing the very first one is the most appropriate to do so. It also includes the logo, so there shouldn't be any problem at all. Please reply! Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.231.158.189 ( talk) 00:22, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
Hergé is made up from the letters R and G, (Rémi George) wich sound in french: Her Gé in English: Air Jae 2405:6E00:248F:FC53:8891:A6E8:2B06:1551 ( talk) 14:54, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
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Check WP:NFCC. All opinions welcome. Thank you. walk victor falk talk 19:15, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
In the opening paragraph it is stated that The Adventures of Tintin has sold more than 350 million copies worldwide, and has appeared in over 80 translations, with reference (footnote 1) to a Guardian article dated 10 Nov 2003, which mentions more than 200 million copies and 50 languages. I find this unnecessarily confusing and misleading. Incidentally, is Dutch the only language in which Tintin is named after his trademark quiff ("Kuifje")? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.23.44.130 ( talk) 06:46, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
The History section of this article contained somewhat inappropriate text (added after this article reached Featured status) that had a few sentences which could be incorporated into other sections of this article but as a whole was not the best choice to describe the history of The Adventures of Tintin. It has been archived here (see also the Archive text box above):
History section as of 10 December 2011.
Meanwhile, in several of the series' articles including The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure, there existed (the same text in each article) a History/Background section that contained very well-written text that is truly the history of the entire Adventures of Tintin series. For that reason, that section has been removed from those articles and moved to this main series article. See the talk pages there.
This new History section of this article now requires one additional paragraph explaining the history of The Adventures of Tintin after Nazi-occupied Belguim, which would include Tintin (magazine) and Studios Hergé. I have made a small attempt at that paragraph and absolutely welcome other's creative input to complete it. —Prhartcom (talk) 14:48, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be a small note on the pronunciation of Tin Tin? Americans pronounce his name as if it was a "tin" in "tin can" Europeans pronounce Tin Tin, with the tin rhyming with "han" as in "Han Solo".
Nasukaren ( talk) 10:06, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Surely the pronunciation of Tintin depends on the language used? Not all 'Europeans' pronounce it the same way, viz. the British who pronounce it as in 'tin can', as in most English-language countries. In its original language, French, the nasal I is pronounced [e(n)], where "e" is pronounced like ê and (n) equals the nasal sound (and is silent), so rhymes with 'pain' (= bread). It's also never written in two words as in Rin Tin Tin, but always one. I don't think there was any connection with Rin Tin Tin by the way, and the origin of the name Tintin is explored in more detail in the character's own page.-- Stelmaris ( talk) 10:04, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
This user likes to read
Tintin comic albums and books about Tintin. |
If you like the graphic novels of
Tintin, you may put this Userbox on your userpage like this: {{
User:Scepia/Tintin}}
--
Tangopaso (
talk) 19:19, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
According to the article book 10 ( The Shooting Star) "was the first to be originally published in colour". However, the article on the book states that "the Shooting Star was first serialized in the newspaper Le Soir in black and white". -- Oddeivind ( talk) 11:15, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
There's a discussion on which comic-related articles should be listed as "Top Importance" on the importance scale, and I feel this article should not be included. If any user disagrees or wishes to contribute, please do so there. Argento Surfer ( talk) 14:41, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
NOTE: In October, 2004 this article was nominated for FA [1] and then in January 2006 it became FA [2] appearing on the main page a year later. [3] —Prhartcom (talk) 12:29, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
This article received its featured article status years ago, and quite evidently no longer warrants such a status. I am proposing that we put it through reassesment. Any objections ? Midnightblueowl ( talk) 17:18, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
You're welcome. I own and am using The Pocket Essential Tintin also. Yes, it would be great "if I could work" on this article to achieve this ultimate aim. I have been doing so for some time. I assume you mean it would be great if you joined me. Which, with your experience, I would be honored. —Prhartcom (talk) 23:26, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
I don't have access to the sources the two of you have, so I won't be making substantial content contributions, but I hope you don't find my copyediting too picky. I would, at the least, like to have another stab at the lead—it seems unbalanced to me, putting emphasis on things I don't see as important, while burying important things later on. For instance, not mentioning ligne claire until the last paragraph, while putting sales figures front and centre in the very short first paragraph (which I don't think should even be in the lead at all).
I'm going to throw up my proposal here and see what you think. I don't think there's anything substantial that's missing from what was originally there (dropping Hergé's real name is not information loss—having it there is only distracting).:
The Adventures of Tintin ( French: Les Aventures de Tintin French pronunciation: [lezavɑ̃tyʁdətɛ̃tɛ̃]) is a series of comics by Belgian cartoonist Hergé (1907–1983). Noted for the variety of genres of its adventures, an attention to detail and accuracy, and its " clear line" drawing style, the series is one of the most popular and influential in the European comics tradition.
; its popularity was such that in 1966 French president Charles de Gaulle declared Tintin his "only international rival".The protagonist of the series is young Belgian reporter Tintin, aided by his faithful dog Snowy. The cast includes the brash and cynical Captain Haddock, the highly intelligent but hearing-impaired Professor Calculus, and the incompetent lookalike detectives Thomson and Thompson. Set in a realistically-depicted 20th century in well-researched settings, the series' plots straddle a variety of genres, including swashbuckling adventure, fantasy, mystery, political thrillers, and science fiction. The stories feature slapstick humour, offset by dashes of sophisticated satire and political or cultural commentary.
The series debuted as a comic strip on 10 January 1929 in Le Petit Vingtième, a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper [ Le XXe Siècle] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup ( help). The strip later moved to Belgium's leading newspaper Le Soir, and from 1946 ran in the long-lived Tintin magazine. In 1950, Hergé founded Studios Hergé, which produced the twenty-four volumes that make up the Tintin canon. The series has seen adaptations for radio, television, theatre, film, and video games, and translations into more than 50 languages. Tintin merchandise is available in Tintin Shops. Hergé's work is the subject of frequent exhibitions, and a body of work on the study of Tintin and Hergé has grown to be called Tintinology.
——— Curly Turkey ( gobble) 21:41, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
OK, I am finally taking a good look at your proposed lead. I don't agree that the current lead has "significant" problems...if they were significant they would have been corrected by now...possibly by me...but I certainly do agree that the lead can be improved. I like the direction you are going with the first paragraph, inserting the attributes that really define Tintin there. I like how you feel we can eliminate the fourth paragraph and move it's facts into the first and second paragraph. Let's certainly keep what we know is already good, which I see you also are doing. In fact, with that said, may I please list those sentences, or the facts and ideas they contain, that I feel are already good. Let us keep intact what we can:
Dear editors, can you please comment on each of my comments above? —Prhartcom (talk) 17:40, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
I'm not that active anymore but I recall being involved in the push to make this an FA. If it helps, I relied heavily on Thompson's book on Herge which was to be honest a disappointment for me. I couldn't trace a copy of either of Farr's books in our library system here, someone had taken out his Tintin companion and never returned it way back when. I do still have copies of Sabin's works if they're of any use but I mined them for all they worth all that time ago, and I still, somewhere, have The Comics Journal issues. If I can be of any assistance, let me know, preferably via my talk page, but my time here is limited and is tied up on another project at the moment. I recall User:Fram also being interested in this article so it might be worth asking them if they can be of any help. Good luck with it, and thanks for the kind words regarding my prose.:) Hiding T 13:21, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
"In one instance, the success of Tintin in 1929-30 was tied to a specific innovation: People in Belgium had never actually seen speech bubbles before--they were a new American idea. Herge virtually pioneered their use in Europe. The effect was seismic: Readers reacted to the early words and deeds of Tintin as if they were carved on tables of stone." [1]
References
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cite book}}
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help)—Prhartcom (talk) 02:40, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
I'm amazed! you must have been working on this for some time. What a dramatic, wonderful change; I am completely in favor of it. This article has not seen such bold editing in years. I actually encountered an edit conflict with you as I was working at the same time, improving the citations. You heard about the first phase of the History section, and what it's been through to get here, right? This enhances the existing text of the History section wonderfully. —Prhartcom (talk) 22:51, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
The Legacy section of this article contained somewhat inappropriate text (added after this article reached Featured status) that had a few sentences (many with cited references) which could be incorporated into other sections of this article but as a whole was not the best choice to describe the legacy of The Adventures of Tintin. It has been archived here (see also the Archive text box above):
Legacy section as of 16 June 2013.
—Prhartcom (talk) 04:07, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello to User 84.210.44.152, who added the new section "The blueline system". There are a few problems with your work and it was necessary to revert it; I would be glad to go over it with you if you would like. However I wanted to let you know I did greatly enjoy reading the source material you provided from author Paul Gravett about Hergé's "clear line"; I will be adding it to this article's bibliography so others may enjoy reading it also; thanks for introducing it! —Prhartcom (talk) 19:21, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
This does bring up an issue: there's no section on the artwork, even though many aspects of the artwork are defining aspects of Tintin—so distinct it readily lends itself to easily-recognized homage and parody. Surely a concise version of what 84.210.44.152 wrote could (should) be worked into such a section? Curly Turkey ( gobble) 22:37, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
{{TOC limit|3}}
would suppress the sub-subsections under "Characters". Also, I was thinking that maybe the "Adaptations and memorabilia" could be moved to its own article—it's got nine subsections all its own! Pretty overwhelming, and somewhat tangential.
Curly Turkey (
gobble) 00:51, 19 June 2013 (UTC)Assouline & Raus is listed as 2011 in the references, but as 2009 in "Further reading". Could you double-check which is right? Curly Turkey ( gobble) 22:44, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
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cite book}}
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help); templatestyles stripmarker in |last=
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(
help). Hope that helps.
Hiding
T 00:07, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
Is Tom McCarthy (writer), novelist the same man that writes for The Guardian? I'm honestly not convinced. —Prhartcom (talk) 21:38, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
The article mentions various female opera singers. As far as Castafiore's look is concerned, however, there's an almost striking resemblance to Swedish opera singer Birgit Nilsson, who certainly was known to Hergé. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.227.28.219 ( talk) 16:31, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
The history section seems to have a bias of coverage towards the earlier period (the first 5 years is covered in much greater detail than the last 40!), and lacks any mention that Hergé disavowed the xenophobia and racism of the early comics. I can't work out if this should prompt removal of the material or expansion. I am concerned that the section seems to focus almost exclusively on how right-wing Petit-Vingtième was, which is in turn supplemented by a "criticisms" section that points out much the same thing. Meanwhile the fact that the strip when taken as a whole exhibited a much broader ideological and social perspective isn't mentioned. Slac speak up! 02:03, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Article states "The series was one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century,", but what other comic would even come remotely close to Tintin in wstern Europe ? Lucky Luke ? Asterix ? Valiant ? No I don't believe so. Boeing720 ( talk) 23:44, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, people may be interested to comment at the requested move discussion at Talk:Tintin. Thanks, Mat ty. 007 15:54, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
The article should probably mention the issue discussed at [4]. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:30, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
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The mobile app currently has this as the top read on Wikipedia so I'm adding this chart to help see if it's spiking for some reason. There is indeed a massive spike and this seems to be associated with the recent terrorism in Belgium: Brussels attacks: how Tintin became a symbol of solidarity on Twitter. Andrew D. ( talk) 11:07, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
There's some dispute about where this should go. This should be a permanent feature at the head of the talk page, as it's always of interest to see what the readership is. The graph seems to need a caption to explain what it is so I might try embedding it in a template of some sort. Andrew D. ( talk) 13:48, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
I was surprised to see Mobygames and Sinclair Infoseek used as sources in an FA... they're patently unreliable sources as user-contributed databases without editorial oversight. (See WP:VG/RS.) Those citations should be removed and replaced. czar 17:26, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
Apart from the unreliable sources, there are also paragraphs of uncited text. This article no longer meets Wikipedia:Featured article criteria. DrKay ( talk) 17:07, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
(My earlier comment, relocated here from
Wikipedia:Featured article candidates:)
I have a lot of sources (in French), and could certainly assist other editors who raise issues to resolve, and/or to be corroborated by reliable sources. I’ll watch this page and participate where I can.
With kind regards; Patrick. ツ
Pdebee.
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old-fashioned!) 13:55, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
The The Adventures of Tintin#Exhibitions section starts in 1983. I don't know all that was before then, but I remember there was an 1980 one in Montreal. Google tells me that it was in 1979 and 1980, and the 45-page guidebook for it titled Le musée imaginaire de Tintin. It travelled to Montreal, France, and Brussels, with the dates Exposition tenue au Palais des beaux-arts, Bruxelles, du 28 juin au 28 août 1979 ; 2 autres lieux et au Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, du 19 juin au 24 août 1980. according to the gouvernment du Quebec; elsewhere I can see it was in Bordeaux October 1-31, 1979 and Paris November 17 to January 4. I'd think that something about this should be added. Presumably there are contemporary references in newspapers of the day. Nfitz ( talk) 09:02, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello everyone! I request if someone could please change the profile picture into the first issue cover of the series, because this is a comic series with many issues and placing the very first one is the most appropriate to do so. It also includes the logo, so there shouldn't be any problem at all. Please reply! Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.231.158.189 ( talk) 00:22, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
Hergé is made up from the letters R and G, (Rémi George) wich sound in french: Her Gé in English: Air Jae 2405:6E00:248F:FC53:8891:A6E8:2B06:1551 ( talk) 14:54, 3 July 2022 (UTC)