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The Agony Aunts are missing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.179.58.169 (talk) 23:47, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Mrs Cosmopilite is the correct spelling not Cosmopolite. Just checked it in Moving Pictures. Wikipedia finds her with Cosmopilite, but in the Lu-Tze Article the wrong spelling is very prominent and so it is here! I didn't check in other articles.
Source: Moving Pictures, Harper Torch page 330.
Could it be that there's a difference in British and American editions? Hoerzig (talk) 16:36, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
--Sources: Moving Pictures: "And Mrs Marietta Cosmopilite of 3 Quirm Street, Ankh-Morpork…" Witches Abroad: "Hence, for example, the Way of Mrs Cosmopilite… No. 3 Quirm Street…" Soul Music: "You can get them up at Mrs Cosmopilite's dress shop." Thief of Time: "It is the Way of Mrs Marietta Cosmopilite, 3 Quirm Street, Ankh-Morpork, Rooms For Rent, Very Reasonable." … "…you wish to learn instead the Way of Mrs Cosmopilite?" etc. She's mentioned a lot in that one.
I'll change it to Cosmopilite —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hoerzig (talk • contribs) 09:58, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
I was just wondering about this line in that section "and by the end of the novel Making Money they were engaged". Dearheart and Moist were engaged before Making Money, it was mentioned when Moist was thinking back to his proposal, where she informed him that she wasn't going to be his wife, but he would be her husband. So it shouldn't really be "by the end", since it occurred before the book. I wasn't sure how to word it, so I just stuck it here to see what you thought. Signed in, that was me BlooLagoo (talk)
I've added to the Canting crew page a citation for Millenium Hand and Shrimp coming from a chinese takeaway menu, unfortunately all I can find is guesswork about the Particle Man source. WibbleWobble 18:35, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
The quote "That idiot at the Post Office" can very well refer to Stanley (who, indeed, does not seem to be very bright - or simply lives in his own world) and his passion for stamps (having given up pins), e.g. when he talks to Moist about making a whole set of stamps for the big guilds. Furthermore, on several occasions, it is clear Stanley is willing to (as a result of a sort of printing error on some stamps - possibly induced by magic) have special and rare stamps made for collectors. What do you think about that?
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You do have a point. However, printing two sets of stamps to deliberately capitalize on the brewing animosity between Dwarfs and Trolls (along with throwing something new out there for the stamp collectors to grab up) seems like just the kind of stunt that Moist would pull. Grabbing space in the paper about it would just be icing on the cake. I don't know if Stanley would register on Vimes' radar, but it bears considering?
(moved from Talk:List of Discworld characters by Chrismith)
I have taken it on myself to put these persons in alphabetical order. At least that way it will look better and be easier to use. --Regshoe
(moved from Talk:List of Discworld characters by DJ Clayworth)
This article obviously needs a lot of cleanup. There are a few of these entries that could be made into full articles (albiet small ones, and I'd understand any objections to doing so). But a number of entries here are just plain unnecessary. Achmed the Mad? He's mentioned in a single paragraph in one book and hardly has an effect on the plot. William Scuggins is even less significant. The Monks of Cool, Vincent the Invulnerable...these are just throwaway jokes and have no place in an article such as this. Additionally, there are some prominent characters who are missing. I just finished adding Victor and Ginger, the main characters of Moving Pictures. Eric, from the book of the same name, should probably be mentioned here as well. Unless someone has major objections, I'll probably start doing some cleanup within the next few days. [Edit: I'm referring to the "Discworld characters" page, not the "List of Discworld characters". Lousy misdirects.] --Chrismith 17:18, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Have modified the entry for Reacher Gilt.
Unless satisfactory evidence is offered demonstrating that he is a "rather obvious parody" of Ayn Rand's John Galt, this comparison should not appear in an encyclopaedic entry.
Added that "Dios" means "God" in Spanish.
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In the entry for Casanunda it says that the second fastest thing on the Discworld is the .303 bookworm. Is this really so? I understood that that was the insect, but that the fastest creature was something else - I forget its name, but its description is that its natural state very flat, and dead. Finn 14:00, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
I've given Moist von Lipwig his own article, in anticipation of Making Money. I've also combined Mr. Pin and Mr. Tulip into their own shared article, and done the same for Mort and Ysabell. In what might be a rather unpopular move, I've also relocated all the assassins' biographies to the Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild page, in keeping with the Watch biographies on the Ankh-Morpork City Watch page. Serendipodous 17:37, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
There seem to be a few articles that link to nonexistant sections... I'm guessing that they've been turned into their own article without fixing up links. I shall remake the sections as links to the main articles as I feel (when I'm not quite as lazy). Someone can actually fix the links and remove the sections if they wish. Mekryd 02:34, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Is it just a coincidence, or should we maybe throw in a link to that wonderful old game Brian Bloodaxe? Snograt talk here 10:55, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
I think that bit about the rhubarb shooting up 30 feet and catching fire after getting some compost actually refers to one of the heralds in Feet of Clay (the name escapes me, he's the one that takes care of the animals). I don't remember that being said of Modo. YggdrasilsRoot 05:28, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
The Carcer entry is a bit cluttered up with unnecessary quotes - I think it could do with a bit of clean up. 212.219.48.247 10:16, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
why hasnt the hogfather been added to this artical? should i add it?--Lerdthenerd 19:42, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
ah okay sorry, i thought since he was a main character he should go here but that doesn't matter.--Lerdthenerd 08:41, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
First, "an admitted reference" sounds like Pterry has admitted doing something wrong by referring to Buddy Holly. I changed that.
Second, "he was last seen working in a fried fish stall in Quirm, a clear reference to Kirsty MacColl's biggest hit" isn't all that accurate, given that Kirsty's biggest hit by far is "Fairytale of New York." Don't believe me? "Chip Shop" only hit #14 in the UK, #9 in Ireland, and didn't chart at all in the US. By contrast, "Fairytale" was #2 in the UK and #1 in Ireland, and charted again three more times in the intervening years, beating "Chip Shop" every time. If you insist on a solo song, her cover of "A New England" was #7. If you're talking about the US rather than the UK, "Walking Down Madison" is her biggest solo hit by far. If you want something she wrote, try "They Don't Know," for which the Tracey Ullman/Paul McCartney version was #2 in the UK and #9 in the US. There are millions more people who know her for singing, "You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot" than for "There's a guy down the chip swop swear's he's Elvis." Although personally I've always liked her best in the Wonderstuff's "Welcome to the Cheap Seats." --75.36.140.83 15:16, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
"Although she was the pivotal character in Equal Rites, she has never been seen or mentioned again."
Except that Pterry has said that she's probably going to be in the next book. Does that deserve a mention? --75.36.140.83 15:31, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
As a note of interest, there was an Irish doctor who set up the first maternity hospital in Dublin in the 1700s, called Bartholomew Mosse --Larana (talk) 23:17, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Polly Perks was a character in The Archers - pub landlord Sid's first wife. Pterre (talk) 12:41, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure that she's not fourteen - it was just the alibi on not needing to shave.
128.2.151.61 (talk) 16:26, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Has no one considered that William de Worde's name might be after the British poet laureate William Wordsworth? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.225.87.250 (talk) 06:21, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
A request for comments has been started that could affect the inclusion or exclusion of episode and character, as well as other fiction articles. Please visit the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(fiction)#Final_adoption_as_a_guideline. Ikip (talk) 11:11, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Why is there a section on The Gonne on this page? The Gonne is a weapon, not a character. I've left it in for now as i suppose there may be a more suitable place for that paragraph to be directly transferred to, but it certainly doesn't belong on a page for Discworld characters.
MrTrent9484 (talk) 20:08, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
The article states that Vimes has "a particular unexplained grudge against him". Isn't that grudge simply the fact that Lewton took a bribe and Vimes sacked him? It's been a while since i played the game, i admit, but i don't recall there being any other mystery grudge other than the obvious one.
MrTrent9484 (talk) 20:20, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Drum was never a tree- that was a different wizard. Drum was only ever a human and then an ant (as the punchline of a joke "An ant would be too much to expect"). 66.32.62.126 (talk) 21:58, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
If no one objects within a reasonable time period(I'm thinking two weeks), I'd like to massively overhaul, and in the process, significantly shorten, this article because it seems to me to be too lengthy and unorganized. If you do object, please state why and, if applicable, the exact changes you object to and/or suggest changes to my proposed changes. Proposed changes follow:
Thoughts? Changes? Ideas?
--Mobtown Mongrel (talk) 18:01, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Currently the article says that Mr. Slant is old enough to have been around when most of the laws were written down. It also says that he was decapitated during the reign of Lord Snapcase. However, Vimes, Sgt. Colin and others not only remember when Snapcase was Patrician, they remember Lord Winder, Snapcase's predecessor. Also, If Slant was executed that recently, he'd not have had time to write most of the law books in the average lawyer's office as implied in Making Money. Does anybody have a citation for when Slant became a zombie, or is this speculation?JDZeff (talk) 22:25, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
The article currently says that in I Shall Wear Midnight, there's an equestrian statue of Lord Rust and that he is presumed to have died. I've just re-read the passage in question, and the statue is of Lord Alfred Rust, not Lord Ronald Rust. I'm going to be bold and remove this from the article. JDZeff (talk) 21:56, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
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Has anyone tried cleaning up this page with it's multiple issues?Halbared (talk) 11:43, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
I've merged the salvagable content from Hex (Discworld) per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hex (Discworld). -- Mikeblas (talk) 02:15, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
The Hex section fails to mention that the entire ant powered computer concept was developed so that Pratchett could make a joke about the 'Anthill Inside' sticker on the outside (a parody of 'Intel Inside', a marketing sticker that many PC manufacturers were using at the time). --Ef80 (talk) 18:37, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
This article does not use Oxford commas. Whether they aid comprehension is a point about which grammarians argue. One thing is for sure. If you read text out loud, you do not normally pause before co-ordinate conjunctions. However it is a matter of style. Some people like them others don't. If I come across an article that is full of Oxford commas then I leave it alone. If an article has none then I don't add any. It's one of the rules. Don't mess about with the style without reason. Consequentially, if an edit adds a single Oxford comma to an article without them I will remove it. There are some sentences that require an Oxford comma to remove ambiguity. Of course that is not just a stylistic quirk and should be left. However, in those cases the ambiguity is often inherent in the sentence structure and the text should be rewritten. OrewaTel (talk) 14:25, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
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The article has four (4) maintenance tags, which I am trying to address. I am unable to find these "many" spelling errors you speak of, but since you have at least tried to discuss now, albeit in the wrong place, I will AGF and take another look. The last time you did a mass revert of hours of work, I did find a stray letter "d", which and wrote you off as random driveby vandalism... sigh. And what is your objection to the reference for the talking dog??? Elinruby (talk) 05:15, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
Please explain this reversion. I do not see a factual error, nor do I introduce a link. In fact, I have been removing wikilinks of generic terms in this article. I am starting to wonder if your wikieditor is malfunctioning somehow. If not, please be aware that baseless accusations of this nature are consi~ered ASPERSIONS and can be sanctioned.Elinruby (talk) 05:37, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
Is Pratchett's character inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._S._Johnson ? 84.71.126.5 (talk) 10:58, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
The claim that Twoflower's real name is "Billy" (from "Bi-Lily") is uncited. While it's commonly repeated, I haven't found a good source for it - and, in fact, Discworld Annotations claims Terry Pratchett said the opposite, that there's no joke intended in "Twoflower." https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-colour-of-magic.html
As such, I suggest that the claim about "Bi-Lily" should be removed unless a reliable source can be cited. DinosaurExplosion (talk) 12:27, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
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