Talk:Minor Discworld characters

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I understand the objection to self-referencing, but many of these characters are not minor and have had entire books with them as the main character. Is there a better way to word the first paragraph that avoids both self referencing and making it look like the characters are unimportant? --81.134.54.129 13:15, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

It seems to me that there's some reason to consider characters who have been protagonists of a full novel (ie, Brutha or Imp/Buddy) to not be minor characters, even when they have not appeared elsewhere. Perhaps a change of terminology is in order? Wyvern11:54, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I would say that the article title implies that they are minor when it should actually be "Other Discworld characters". That's not a very good article name, though, so we need to come up with something that works. violet/riga (t) 22:17, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Agreed. Nuggan and Mr. Tulip have pages to themselves and they both count as minor characters... Modo should be given a paragraph on the Minor Characters page, and less on the Modo page (there are several Modos). I'm glad to see you started a reorganization project; the Diskworld entries could certainly use it. Wyvern 03:10, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Information merged in

I have incorporate text from the following articles, which I shall now redirect: Achmed the Mad, Bilious, Blind Io, Death of Rats, Foul Ole Ron, Hodgesaargh. Please refer to the histories of those articles for contribution histories. Rho 01:57, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Good work! violet/riga (t) 22:17, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Order

The entries seem to have been started in alphabetical order but no longer are so. Is there an organization that I'm missing or is it just a mess? If the latter, is there any particular feeling about regoranizing it? Wyvern11:59, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

They are in alphabetical order, just by surname for those that have one. violet/riga (t) 22:17, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Ah, okay. Wyvern 03:10, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] People to Add (or Move)

There are plenty of Diskworld characters who have their own pages on shakey need. Let's start a list here of characters who are too minor to really deserve whole pages, or who have no wiki entry at all; the point of this is to list who we want, for whoever feels like adding them. I'll nominate for moving Lady Sybil, Walter Plinge, BS Johnson, Leonard of Quirm Mr Tulip, The Bursar, Jeremy Clockson and Binky (I've just now moved Modo). For creation, Lord Rust, Mr Pin and Sgt Jackrum. Wyvern 12:10, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Can't the Bursar be merged to the Unseen University instead? - Jeltz talk 17:42, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
That sounds reasonable to me. The Minor Characters page naturally should link to both the characters page and secondary lists such as UU faculty and witches. -- Wyvern 03:11, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Ysabell also has her own page; she could probaby go into the Minor Characters list. - Wyvern 01:32, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Also Black Allis/Alison Weatherwax. Granted that Granny Weatherwax's grandmother (see Carpe Jugulum, when Granny meets the Old Count) is dead and never seen, Black Allis has been talked about frequently - and looms large in Nanny's thoughts when Granny gets preoccupied. When we get a round tuit... - Wyvern 11:35, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Link on "Discworld Characters" for "Cheery Littlebottom" leads to this page, but there is no entry yet for Cheery.

Fixed. There is an entry for Cheery, but it's over on Ankh-Morpork_City_Watch; the link on Diskworld Characters now points there. -- Wyvern 15:17, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tacticus

"and George Patton's autobiography was titled A Soldier's Life"

No it wasn't. Patton's autobiography was titled "War as I Knew It", Omar Bradley has written "A Soldier's Story" and "A General's Life" (both quite awful and self-serving but that's just my personal opinion). As far as I know there is not book titled exactly "A Soldier's Life" but there is a number of books that includes those words in their title ""A Soldier's Life" - [1] --Roo72 02:13, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Death of Rats

Is 'Death of Rats' the same as 'The Bone Rat' that appears in The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents?

I haven't read the book but I would guess that it's the same. The death of rats is mentioned in several reviews of the book and how likly is it that there are more than one skeletal rodent in the Discworld? Jeltz talk 19:04, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yes, The Bone Rat is the same as The Death of Rats. The Bone Rat appears to be the name the rats give Death's little sidekick.HaukurH

[edit] Modified Casanunda's entry

Changed the "we try harder" to "I try harder". "We try harder" was the ad-phrase used by Avis that was being parodied by Casanunda's "I try harder". Also capitalized the M in "Magpyr's" HaukurH

Welcomes. That's good corrections, but it's not necessary to mention this small changes on the talk page. It's just changes of greater magnitude or when people disagree and revert edits it's necessary to mention it here. I cna't think of any reason for why people would object agaisnt this. :) Jeltz talk 14:39, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Note to anyone intending on splitting off a section

This page has been processed by N-Bot, which, for browsing convenience, changes links to redirects to lists to links to the relevant list sections: e.g. [[Quoth]] is changed to [[Minor Discworld characters#Quoth|Quoth]].

As a result, anyone who intends to split a section out of this page should be aware that, as of 9 August 2005, the following sections were linked to from the following pages:

~~ N-Bot (t/c) 05:22, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Update: Death of Rats has been moved to Discworld gods#The Death of Rats. I've corrected all the links mentioned above. Daibhid C 12:15, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Millenium hand and shrimp

Not that, knowing Terry Pratchett, I find this story particularly unlikely, but where did the information come from? --Yar Kramer 15:35, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Pratchett said so on alt.fan.pratchett, around the time Soul Music was released IIRC. Varitek 19:13, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Anghammarand

The section below appears in Ang's description, and I daren't delete something that sounds this important. Seems like a theory of the origin of the golem's name, but is it a shorthand outline of the idea, or just some schizophrenic wikipedia fiend's rambling?

A linguistic amalgam of the angel messenger linked to the masons - ang - hammar following the gholem mnemonic metaphor of the freedom of man and the seeking and establishment of own 'self' with references to the concept of increasing levels of awareness within a universal cyclic timeframe.

Looks like BS to me, and not very well spelled, either. --Yar Kramer 21:48, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Smoking GNU

I added an entry for the Smoking GNU, though it's kinda bare-bones at the moment. --Yar Kramer 17:20, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Am I right in thinking that this is a reference to The Lone Gunmen? —Phil | Talk 10:34, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Casanunda

Since when is he the fastest thing on the Discworld? The 2nd fastest is the .303 bookworm, but the fastest was stated to be the Ambiguous Puzuma. The closest thing I recall to what the article mentions is when something was described as being "like Casanunda in a nunnery", but certainly not in the context of being the fastest thing ever. Confusing Manifestation 17:33, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

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