On 8/19/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/18/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
Even wierder, we don't have an article about Hercules the TV character! Which is very strange, since we have articles on basically all characters to appear in popular fiction (just look at [[Will Hunting]] fer chrissakes). We do have an article on the TV show, but isn't sorted first either alphabetically or chronologically.
We have a couple of weird instances where characters are blended with the show/book about them. See [[Asterix]] for a good example - the article is mostly about the series (despite the dablink "This article is about the comic book character"), and has very little about him - less than the content of [[Obelix]], for instance.
It probably comes down to editors blurring the two concepts in their minds. Or maybe sometimes the concepts are blurry - what *would* you write about Hercules the TV character? Mostly you would want to describe the relationship between him and the "real" Hercules, but you might as well describe the faithfulness of the whole Hercules TV show to the whole Hercules legend. Dunno.
A good example of where it's appropriate to split a TV show from the title character is [[Doctor (Doctor Who)]] vs. [[Doctor Who]]. Something like Hercules just doesn't have the material to split the character from the show.
I don't think so, both [[Xena]] and [[Gabrielle (Xena)]] have their own articles, both pretty decent (if crufty). I haven't seen more than a couple of episodes of Xena and Hercules, but Herc-man should be able to pull off a couple of paragraphs, right? To take another example (from a show I have watched, religiously, and several times), [[Buffy Summers]], [[Xander Harris]], [[Willow Rosenberg]], and, my personal favourite, [[Tara Maclay]] all have their own articles (throw any accusations at me, I'm proud of my Buffy obsession!). Going by that precedent, surely My Man Hercfrey could have an article?
--Oskar