On 2/27/06, Matt R
<matt_crypto(a)yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
* "In White Wolf Game Studio's World of
Darkness role-playing universe,
Turing
was a leading member of the mage faction known as the Virtual Adepts." --
[[Alan Turing]]
The latter two are obvious dumps, but I'm going to quibble
about the
first
one. If a real historical figure plays a significant role in a fictional
work, that's probably worth at least a small note. Not the more
important/famous figures (Hitler, Einstein, Lincoln) who show up in
fiction
with regularity, but less famous people like Turing probably have only
popped up a few times.
However, I feel that really depends on what the appearance
is like. If
the character in the game was patterned on the real person, even to the
extent that reading about the character might shed light on what the
real person was like, then it might well merit a mention. But the way I
read that note, it sounds like the character shares little more than a
name and a loose historical analogy with the real Alan Turing.