Talk:James Hacker

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[1] has an episode guide which will probably very useful for getting info about individual episodes. I got the name of the doctorate episode there. --Tim Pope 19:31, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. I have all the episodes on DVD and have watched them oodles of times but I can never remember what comes up in the episodes... David.

There's a spoof obituary for Hacker in 'Politico's Book of the Dead' which I will scour for additional information. David | Talk 11:23, 25 August 2005 (UTC) (so you're name's not Bruce then? That's going to cause a bit of confusion)

I believe that Hacker's wife was named Annie, not Ann? The cast list at IMBD seems to support this: [2] Supermagle

I just wanted to reiterate that I think mixing fiction about James Hacker with facts about Paul Eddington is unnecessarily confusing and gives the article an unencyclopedic tone. I assume I'm in the minority on this, but I won't be editing this article any further. --Mrwojo 17:47, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I think it's not so much a fact vs. fiction issue - if it were I'd unhesitatingly agree with you - as a canon vs noncanon issue. That is, in the TV series itself there's no reference to their birth and death dates, but there apparently is in the obituary Politico's Book of the Dead. It's not the series per se, but it is apparently written by the series' writers, so I think that's close enough to canon for government work... It's probably just worth making clear the source of each bit of information; I'll try and do something with this. --Zeborah 22:49, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Your changes are an improvement. I'm not a fan of using the standard formatting for biographies (bold name followed by birth/death in parentheses) for fictional characters. I find this case (and Humphrey Appleby's) especially notable because it uses dates from the real person most closely associated with the character. I also prefer mentioning the actor's name in the first screenshot they appear in. (The only other point was the "he does not necessarily share aspects of his character" sentence, which you've clarified.) --Mrwojo 02:21, 28 December 2005 (UTC)