On 8/19/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/18/06, Oskar Sigvardsson
<oskarsigvardsson(a)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